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by radicaldreamer 406 days ago
Deniability
2 comments

If you're the NSA, you can tell Amazon, "Hey here's $1B. You're going to get some fiber outages, and we're also going to buy a bunch of compute from you at an exorbitantly high price you'll charge us. It's fine, we're the NSA. So when the outages happen, don't announce it. Also terrorism."
Plausible. You can always deny anything. It just might not be so plausible under scrutiny.