[Spooky23]

I think what we're seeing is that "SIGWAR" is a thing. Why blow up something if you can undermine it?

If you think about it, it's similar to how the physical world evolved. I was recently up at Fort Ticonderoga, which is an example of a fort designed to resist and leverage the cannon as a defensive weapon. In Europe forts of similar design were nearly impregnable, but ultimately obsolete -- mobility and artillery rendered fixed positions useless. There's a similar thing at play here!

[tgragnato]

I am not skeptical about this concept in particular, but about the lack of practical confirmation for the results of their tools.

This is perceived (at a later stage & by the public opinion) when many in the government itself publicly question the trustworthiness of the information given.

When you're blacked out by an immense quantity of basically useless infos, you're spending money and resources in an ineffective manner.

Is all this enough to target what has to be targeted, so that you have a real balance between your effort and your results?

I don't think so, a quick look to their budget is enough for me to disagree.