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by giancarlostoro 2611 days ago
Thats the belief but was it truly ever confirmed? I dont doubt it it sounds like a meme worthy of belief and I lean towards it but I dont recall ever finding a confirmation. Also saying they were caught implies the law caught them and arrested them.
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burger_moon 2610 days ago
It appears a US military general was pardoned by Obama for leaking details and US/Israeli involvement in it.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/17/obamas-general-pleads-g...

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jannes 2611 days ago
As far as I know Stuxnet didn't break any US/Isreal laws. Of course it broke Iranian laws, though.

I think Obama said "no comment" to reporters, but then basically admits it by talking about how he regrets that this information got out into the public.

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NullPrefix 2610 days ago
Stuxnet didn't violate Computer Fraud and Abuse Act ?
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giancarlostoro 2609 days ago
Well it was not deployed in the USA anyway... It would be whatever equivalent law in Iran?
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r3bl 2611 days ago
What would you consider as a confirmation? Without someone coming out and saying "we're the ones who did it", it's very unlikely that it'll be ever be confirmed.

The best you can do is to make some educated guesses (by looking at the timestamps, coding patterns, comments in the code, who might be interested in hacking the target, political connotation to the attacks etc.). That's usually how state-sponsored attacks get attributed.

For example, "Guccifer" used GTM+3 settings and attacked DNC a few hours after Trump publicly "hoped" that Russians will find the emails. That doesn't confirm that it was sponsored by Russia, but it makes it an educated guess.

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