I worry about how nonchalantly researchers attribute these campaigns. They never tell you their methodology for their attribution, but it's always the attributi

I worry about how nonchalantly researchers attribute these campaigns. They never tell you their methodology for their attribution, but it's always the attribution that non-technical people pay the most attention to. Look at this article for example. The first two words are the attributed actor. Yet there is absolutely no way to prove it. Attribution on the Internet is really, really, really difficult. We don't know how difficult it is because we have no independent method to determine when we're right or wrong. And we would be foolish to think that attribution is never politically motivated.