[catigula]

There's huge incentive for nation-state level actors to recruit, train and spend oodles on extremely sophisticated hacking programs with little legal oversight and basically endless resources. I have no idea why you're incredulous about this.

If I were running a country practically my highest priority would be cyberattacks and defense. The ability to arbitrarily penetrate even any corporate network, let alone military network, is basically infinite free IP.

[behringer]

It doesn't matter who hacks me. If my job is on the line I'm going to claim it's someone impossible to defend against like a state actor.

There's a thousand things to point at that would make it plausible. I might even convince myself of it out of sheer embarrassment.

[catigula]

I don't lie generally but most of all about things that could precipitate FBI involvement in what you're doing.

This is a fantasy.

[citizenpaul]

> I have no idea why you're incredulous about this.

I understand human nature.

[tiahura]

You can get a lot of fat kids on a computer in a bedroom for the cost of building and maintaining a 6th Gen fighter.