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Attribution can be difficult with IRL attacks too. So you can't be sure about every attack, but you're often sure about some of them because secrecy is hard. F
by tlb 4y ago
Attribution can be difficult with IRL attacks too. So you can't be sure about every attack, but you're often sure about some of them because secrecy is hard.
For example: Stuxnet was one of many responses to Iran's nuclear weapons program. Another response was, allegedly [0], assassination of some senior scientists. Attribution is still disputed about the latter, but not the former.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran#Possible_espionage_and_assassinations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_program_of_Iran#Possib...
- pphysch 4y ago> Attribution is still disputed about the latter, but not the former. Is anyone seriously considering that it was not Mossad/CIA? Cui bono?