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Yes, but still. I read the article when it was first published and felt it was the usual "evil communism" bs (which I honestly wouldn't have expected from Mr. S
by fps_doug 9y ago
Yes, but still. I read the article when it was first published and felt it was the usual "evil communism" bs (which I honestly wouldn't have expected from Mr. Schneider), and this time around we actually got a definite answer proving these kind of claims wrong.
Nowadays every time some news pop up revolving around cyber attacks more sooner than later someone points at China or Russia, with some very vague evidence at best. "Oh, we found a Russian text string embedded in the binary, it MUST have been written by the Russian government."
- lbill 9y agoI think we are taking this the wrong way. The situation is "we more or less blamed Mirai on a State sponsored actor", and we focus our attention on "hey, you were wrong! How dare you suspect foreign governments? That's kind of racist!". I see it as a minor concern, the major one being "Mirai is the definitive proof that your don't need the means and resources of a big hacking team financed by a government to cripple the internet. 3 kids who want to cheat on minecraft can do it". Sure, we already kinda knew that, but this proof is quite scary.