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jdenning
"it may be a common piece of malware that just happened to make its way into these sensitive networks" -- well, that's comforting! </s>
panopticon
“We think it’s benign. But we just don’t know.”

Sounds like they got (had? since this is an article from 2011) this totally under control.

smegel
Well no-one makes a big fuss about getting the common cold now do they?
orf
They might if you worked in the CDC, with sensitive stuff.
firefoxd
They should check their OS's privacy policy, this has become a normal behavior for a machine in 2017.
ClFromEmacs
This story is so old that it's not allowed out after dark.