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bpeebles | 3 years ago

There doesn't seem to be anything different now than 6 hours ago. So posting it after 8pm EDT/5pm PDT Friday seems very intentional.

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Sebb767|3 years ago

With what intention? Honest question, I don't see a strategic advantage in posting this on a Friday. More of a disadvantage, actually, with less visibility.

bpeebles|3 years ago

The point is less visibility/criticism. Since this is confirming pretty bad news (the attackers had access to the environment variables.) The concept of a Friday night news dump is a fairly well-worn, but basically true, trope.

endisneigh|3 years ago

> With what intention? Honest question, I don't see a strategic advantage in posting this on a Friday. More of a disadvantage, actually, with less visibility.

The intention presumably is to be able to say they communicated this while (intentionally) limiting the amount of awareness that's spread about this.

unknown|3 years ago

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orangepurple|3 years ago

With any hope it will slide in the news cycle and be buried by any developments over the weekend.