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Comment by ummonk | Hacker News Reader

North Korean engineers aren't nearly as scary as a "Trust and Safety" company founded by ex-CIA operatives.

They make it sound like it’s a lucky coincidence that “these guys just so happened to apply to a company run by ex-CIA North Korea experts!”

I’d guess that there’s a chance that they specifically targeted this company

> I’d guess that there’s a chance that they specifically targeted this company

There's even a chance this never actually happened as presented.

We don’t have any evidence except bogus applicants- this is just speculation at best. Sad it hit front of HN though.

“We” (the readers of HN) don’t have any evidence per se, just a blog post. But I also don’t see why anyone would make up this particular story.

I also don't see why anybody would boast being a "Trust and Safety" company founded by ex-CIA, but here we are. Who knows these guys.

Or that there's a Trust and Safety industry even exists.

Knowing that the internet is as rife with abuse as sneakerspace, I cannot see how there could not be. If such an industry had spawned a decade earlier maybe The Algorithm would have less unchecked and would not have resulted in so much societal destruction this century.

Are you advocating for techno-authoritarianism?

The problems of spam and fraud exists regardless. We're not going back to better days where this only happened sometimes and a few tweaks to your config shut it down for good.

So maybe you could suggest a better answer instead of asking boring questions.

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