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Yeah, Notepad++ is known for political messaging in their updates. Taiwan, Ukraine, etc.
by icelancer 8mo ago
Yeah, Notepad++ is known for political messaging in their updates. Taiwan, Ukraine, etc.
- lobito25 8mo agoProbably the real motive.
- chvid 8mo ago“ The incident began from June 2025. Multiple independaent security researchers have assessed that the threat acotor is likely a Chinese state-sponsored group, which would explain the highly selective targeting obseved during the campaign.” How do they know it was a Chinese group or even a state sponsored one?
- cwnyth 8mo agoThey said "likely", so they don't "know." Yours is the wrong question.
- skeledrew 8mo agoThe "likely" does give the impression that they have a pretty good idea.
- cwnyth 8mo agoI didn't say that to be pedantic, but to avoid that particular type of asker who isn't actually asking a genuine question here. After listing all the ways that Notepad++ (as an example here) suspects who they suspect, the asker then comes back with "Yeah, but how do you know?", as if that's some sort of gotcha. It's disingenuous. Even if the person I replied to isn't attempting this, I find it good to call out and get people to ask a better question: what's the evidence and why does that evidence point to this conclusion?
- uhx 8mo agoBy analyzing payloads / C2 address, etc...
- somenameforme 8mo agoYeah because a state level actor would be completely incapable of false attribution.
- lukan 8mo agoWith enough effort, anything can be obfuscated. But effort costs money and also state level actors have limited funds and time and want to go home to their families ar some point and if the purpose was to get a message across (don't mess with china, otherwise face the consequences) there is no need to really hide the origin.
- tbrownaw 8mo agoPerhaps it's "...because that would explain..."?
- rightbyte 8mo agoWhen you want to spread jingoist paranoia you can just make stuff up and claim any critique is from said actors.
- hulitu 8mo ago> Chinese group our enemy. It must be Chinese, North Korean or Russian. > state sponsored one "our software/our provider is so good that only a state actor can compromise us" (see Microsoft's AD keys hack for details)
- LoganDark 8mo agoI can't help but feel there must some better venue for such messaging. When I see politics in software updates or documentation, nothing happens because I'm not looking to use the software for political activism. Maybe I tell my adblocker to remove the messaging, and carry on with my task. I can engage with politics in a social context, when political messaging isn't interrupting something else I'm doing; that's a better place for activism, IMHO. I almost always see activists using the argument that if I don't like the messaging then I'm part of the problem. Somehow I doubt that, given I don't mind messaging at all, where it's appropriate.
- icelancer 8mo agoI generally agree with you. But I put up with it since Notepad++ is good software. It is what it is.
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- ryandrake 8mo agoSimilar comments also come up in the [now regular] "I don't want to see political articles on HN" threads, and I think the response is similar: Asking for "no politics" is itself a strong political view: One in support/service of whatever the current status quo is. Trying to set oneself apart from (or above) politics is itself political. If you're lucky enough to be one of the fortunate people on earth who are not under attack by political forces or who benefit from status quo politics, I'd encourage you to simply reflect on that good luck and try to ignore the "politics" that others are deeply affected by and care about.
- illiac786 8mo agoFully agree, it’s akin to atheists, they very often are convinced they are not religious. Agnostics are the unreligious ones. In fact, atheists are the most fanatical zealots in my friends circle.
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- tjpnz 8mo agoI wouldn't brush off Taiwan or Ukraine as "political". In both cases it's about survival, and in one it's a literal fight.
- MengerSponge 8mo agoBro, it's political. Political isn't synonymous with "bad" or with "propaganda". Wars are waged on many fronts, and securing economic and hardware support takes messaging.
- airstrike 8mo agoIn fact, Carl von Clausewitz is known for saying "War is politics by other means" (among many other great quotes)
- direwolf20 8mo agoI'd say politics is war by other means. First we killed each other for resources. Then we decided killing sucked, and if your tribe doesn't kill my tribe, my tribe won't kill your tribe, but now we have to decide how many resources we each get. It's hard work to keep things like this and avoid reverting back to the default state.
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- avazhi 8mo agoThat’s political, lol.
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- pandemic_region 8mo agoYou'll enjoy the ads more?