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by nyokodo 1805 days ago
> The US doesn’t need “one person” when there are clear signatures and traces

How clear are they really? How hard is it to pin an attack on another group or country?

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Less than one might hope, in general:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vault_7#UMBRAGE

Even HN has torn a few of the analyses apart, e.g. when the auditors looked at Bezos' phone and claimed that a file from MBS might be malicious, HN called them out on the claims that it couldn't be decrypted:

https://github.com/ddz/whatsapp-media-decrypt

Given that their entire analysis hinged on this one file being a malicious executable that couldn't be decrypted, well... suffice it to say I'm quite mistrustful of these things, especially when politics is involved.