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Can you come up with a good motive for Iran or Russia? Opportunity costs are not exactly as low for every country, as they have different capabilities, use dif
by xnull2guest 12y ago
Can you come up with a good motive for Iran or Russia?
Opportunity costs are not exactly as low for every country, as they have different capabilities, use different tactics, have different budgets and talent pools, and have different interests. Triage is going to be different for different state actors. Pure and simple. I'm not sure that an opportunity cost analysis indicts NK - and in fact I do suggest that work needs to be done there in the original comment.
- alttab 12y agoEven the motive for a lone wolf hacker with a huge botnet would make sense if they were impressing themselves with how good the hack was. If they could "trick" the US into thinking it was North Korea, the lulz from that alone would be enough to have the whole charade to take on a life of its own. That's just a good a reason as any other motive for any other suspect given that I've seen.