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> used to be skeptical of the government provenance Do you mean skeptical on which government was responsible or that it was in fact a government effort? I ca
by NitpickLawyer 6mo ago
> used to be skeptical of the government provenance
Do you mean skeptical on which government was responsible or that it was in fact a government effort?
I can see how attribution could be debatable (between two main suspects mainly), but are / were there any good arguments against this being a gov effort? I would find it highly unlikely that someone other than a gov could muster up so much domain knowledge, source pristine 0days and be so stealthy at the same time.
- tptacek 6mo agoI didn't want to give bumptious government CNE teams that much credit, and also a lot of the indicators people were giving of state origin didn't seem all that predictive. I don't agree with your premise that it takes a state-level adversary to collect the domain knowledge needed to do this stuff, and I certainly don't agree about the "pristine zero days".