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It could boil down to having other intelligence fingering China, but the US doesn't want to expose and consequently draw attention to the source of the informat
by nerdy 11y ago
It could boil down to having other intelligence fingering China, but the US doesn't want to expose and consequently draw attention to the source of the information.
If the US doesn't have some 99.9999% assurance it was China and they made a statement like that with egg still on their face from the breach, it's pretty sad. I don't rule it out, but the US probably has more common sense than that. From a technical perspective, it sure was a fast "investigation".
- shit_parade2 11y agoBecause the US government has proven so trust worthy in recent memory with all the secret laws, torture, and murder of innocents. What an endless parade of jingoists to ever defend the exceptional American empire.
- gred 11y agoUsername checks out.
- cmdrfred 11y agoBURN
- nerdy 11y agoFunny particularly because I did not defend America. Not only did I not defend them, but I actually left open the possibility that they're lying— explicitly! And I suggested they might (hah!) be doing the same thing the Chinese allegedly did (hacking/spying/etc). So relax with the rhetoric.
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- learnstats2 11y agoYes, or it could boil down to deliberately repeating a politically convenient lie: "Weapons of Mass Destruction". We, the people, don't know, but it seems that they are lying about at least some aspect.
- aburan28 11y agoThe DoD/OPM/FBI would not reveal who the attacker is at all. Think about this for a second, why the hell would they reveal the fact that they could attribute an attack to China? That stuff is kept secret because that's how the intelligence agencies work. The US has a global cybersecurity strategy and so they are setting the precedent that they can hold nations responsible for cyberattacks and this became apparent with the North Korea/Sony attack attribution debacle
- sigterm 11y agos/China/Iraq then reread this comment.
- nerdy 11y agoScary. It's easy to imagine how we go from here into the first major cyber conflict.