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  Pretty much, that's part of the reason I think we should take them at their word. Why use a highly visible balloon to do less than what your team of hackers can do with way less visibility?
context: Probably once it's over the Atlantic it'll be brought down and collected. >
  
  Yeah,  that seems to be the play.... >
  
  What I don't get, it traveled across Canada..
  Why did nobody tell anything about it, earlier? >
  
  Because there wasn’t anything for us to know. NORAD knew about this. We were probably tracking it for quite some time. The only reason Biden said anything is because someone saw it on a plane and reported it to the news who made it a big deal. >
  
  People freaking out over a spy balloon is fucking ridiculous. The Chinese are constantly attempting to and succeeding at hacking into both public and private IT systems while the people pearl clutching say nothing. They get far more from their hacking efforts than a fucking balloon.