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From the NYT article: > American, European and Israeli officials involved in the program, as well as a range of outside experts. None would allow their names t
by forgotusername 14y ago
From the NYT article:
> American, European and Israeli officials involved in the program, as well as a range of outside experts. None would allow their names to be used because the effort remains highly classified, and parts of it continue to this day.
Convenient. Not only was the reporter able to secure one reliable, anonymous, highly privileged source to confirm the story, but he found multiple!
- eli 14y agoThe NYT would almost certainly not have run the story with a single source backing it up.
- forgotusername 14y agoThere is too much wishful thinking going on around Stuxnet, both on the part of the security industry and the general public who'd rather believe their own country originated it. If you were a world super power, wouldn't it be in your interests to claim responsibility for a first of its kind, extremely high tech attack? I believe any government wouldn't mind this kind of attribution. I'll wait my 50 years or whatever for the relevant documents to be declassified, in the meantime this is all just drama and guesswork, no matter how many anonymous, totally reliable sources crawl out of the woodwork.
- eli 14y agoDid you read the NYT article? I found it to be pretty convincing. Who do you suggest as an alternate culprit?
- sigzero 14y agoIt makes it more plausible that way. ;)