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>The Mirai botnet was also attributed to "nation state actors." Not by anyone you should listen to, Mirai was attacking minecraft servers from day one.
by ryanlol 9y ago
>The Mirai botnet was also attributed to "nation state actors."
Not by anyone you should listen to, Mirai was attacking minecraft servers from day one.
- chatmasta 9y agoUnless you count Bruce Schneier, who congress sometimes listens to. To be fair, I ridiculed him for exactly this in my original comment, so I agree with you. The issue is not who we should listen to. It's who the politicians listen to, and who the media listens to. Those are the "experts" who, often unwillingly, set the narrative, driving public perception on the topic and ultimately influencing policy.
- ryanlol 9y agoThis just proves that you should only listen to Schneier when he is discussing the domain in which he is an expert, which is certainly not attribution. It’s pretty obvious that he had not looked at Mirai at all when he attributed it to ‘state actors’. Politicians and the media will always listen to whoever yells the loudest.