Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "Yahoo Says 500M Accounts Hacked in Unprecedented Breach" video.

  1. "State-sponsored" means just that, sponsored by a state. In other words, funded, contracted, if not hired by a government. Highly-centralized regimes like China and Russia are infamous for pulling off hacks that only a government-funded operation have the patience and sophistication to commit. Massive organizations like Yahoo are so huge that they probably have teams of people just to replace dead hard drives and order replacements in all their different types. Losing track of every service and operation is easy at the top where they're worried about how to fund every HR, legal, marketing, and sales program on top of hard ops. Most Americans can't even come close to an accurate inventory for every single thing they own just at home.
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