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Reporters do and should use this technique to understand what their article is about and verify a base understanding. They should be careful when it becomes an awkward game of telephone. [1]

As Joe Fitz and Joe Grand say in the panel it is a theoretical attack. There are plenty of ways to do an attack with similar effectiveness for cheaper and with more precision. See NSA's ANT catalog where individual boards and devices were created to target specific individuals or organizations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_(game)



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