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I would too, but consider what you are asking for. Text logs. Easily fakeable text logs. If they provided an excel spreadsheet with a bunch of Russian IPs on it
by redwards510 10y ago
I would too, but consider what you are asking for. Text logs. Easily fakeable text logs. If they provided an excel spreadsheet with a bunch of Russian IPs on it, what do you really do with that? In this case they are just saying "look, you'll just have to trust us on this one.."
I firmly believe that in many of these attribution cases there is a lot of top secret source discovery methods they cannot mention, like sniffers on routers, or implants on the actual computer used to send the message.
EDIT: Additionally, it's pretty unlikely that you'd see a Russian IP address and be like "Oh Russia did it". Instead, NSA would have a list of IPs known to be compromised by Russian actors. If they shared that list with the public, it would not help clear things up for us, because we don't know the history of the traffic coming from that compromised box, it could be in another country and idiots would point and say "See! Not Russia!". And it would reveal to the Russians that we knew they owned that box. All bad things.