> These don't sound like things that the Russian government or any nation state would be saying.
This goes both ways: Or they would be exactly the kind of things a government would say to dispel any notion of it being a government.
> Makes the U.S. intelligence / media look stupid. And if it turns out that it is some individuals that happen to live in Russia, it still makes the U.S. look stupid.
I wonder whatever happened to that whole mantra of the early 2000s and 2010s when governments would regurgitate the difficulty in dealing with "cyber" due to the "asymmetric" nature of "cyber warfare"?
Somehow that was completely forgotten over the last decade in favor of blaming any and all InfoSec breaches instantly on some state actor.
One has to wonder how much of that is just deflecting from bad practices with "The enemy is a state, nothing we could do to defend against an attacker that powerful!" in favor over admitting "Yeah some autistic dude in his parents basement pwned all our stuff because our security is completely amateurish".
This goes both ways: Or they would be exactly the kind of things a government would say to dispel any notion of it being a government.
> Makes the U.S. intelligence / media look stupid. And if it turns out that it is some individuals that happen to live in Russia, it still makes the U.S. look stupid.
I wonder whatever happened to that whole mantra of the early 2000s and 2010s when governments would regurgitate the difficulty in dealing with "cyber" due to the "asymmetric" nature of "cyber warfare"?
Somehow that was completely forgotten over the last decade in favor of blaming any and all InfoSec breaches instantly on some state actor.
One has to wonder how much of that is just deflecting from bad practices with "The enemy is a state, nothing we could do to defend against an attacker that powerful!" in favor over admitting "Yeah some autistic dude in his parents basement pwned all our stuff because our security is completely amateurish".