> "we could never know if they were telling the truth" Depends on your epistemology, but I'd like to believe that most people could. At some point you have to

> "we could never know if they were telling the truth" Depends on your epistemology, but I'd like to believe that most people could. At some point you have to draw a line between an unsatisfiable skepticism and believing third party, independent observer. In my example an electric company suffered an outage due to an attack. Certainly linemen, switch operators, NERC-CIP-familiar personnel and other people would be able to testify to the press (or to others) that something strange did happen. Having worked on outages related to that kind of stuff, I myself could testify that when people in my field see strange things on public-sector systems it somehow makes it's way around the community ;). The point here is that it would/will lend credence to the claims that those scary men in black suits make. But of course, believe what you want. That's always going to be your prerogative.