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I really wish the reports on hacks could treat attribution more seriously. Everytime a hack like this occurs it gets blamed on 'the Chinese', or 'the Russian',
by AndyMcConachie 6y ago
I really wish the reports on hacks could treat attribution more seriously. Everytime a hack like this occurs it gets blamed on 'the Chinese', or 'the Russian', or 'the Iranians', without every showing any evidence to prove this. Attribution on the Internet is hard, like really hard. I want proof.
And if you don't have proof, or can't show me the proof, then don't just blame Americas enemies. It's sloppy and dangerous.
- amanaplanacanal 6y agoI would guess that many times the evidence is from NSA signals intelligence and they can’t show their work because it’s classified. We end up just having to take their word for it.
- baobabKoodaa 6y agoHow convenient that the perpetrators always turn out to be political enemies.
- hntrader 6y agoI agree that they should show proof. But if they won't show proof yet it's nevertheless true and they have strong privately held evidence concluding it (perhaps from the NSA), that doesn't suddenly make it dangerous to blame the actual perpetrator. It's only dangerous if they're doing it incorrectly or presumptively or deceitfully (which you don't know to be the case).