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I also found this very weird.

Correct me if i'm wrong but while this blog seems creditable and by a good author it isn't "huge" in any sense which makes it even more confusing that someone shows up that fast to comment on topics relating to Manafort and Gates.

Comment is deleted now sadly but it basically stated that "the US needs to investigate HILLARIOUS CLINTON" etc etc, completely unrelated to the content of the article.

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Schneier's blog is a regularly visited blog for many in the security space. With HN linking to a page on this blog, it's very possibl that page will have uncorrelated comments that are not security related.

And given the prevalence of Russians associated with the government in the security space (to be fair--a lot of security people are associated with their own governments), I suspect that it has a tight feedback loop with the troll factories.

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