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embedding-shape 3 hours ago

My point is; what changes if we knew for a fact it was Russia or that it was someone else?

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NewsaHackO 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>My point is; what changes if we knew for a fact it was Russia or that it was someone else?

Is this a serious question?

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yonatan8070 an hour ago | parent [-]

Sounds serious to me

It's highly unlikely that the people behind an attack like this would come out (non-anonimously) and take credit. And it's unlikely they'll be caught. So does it matter to most peoplee if it's Russians, Americans, Iranians, North Koreans, or some other country?

If you're a 3-letter agency, you'd want to know and potentially arrest them, but as a random guy on the internet, or even a maintainer, I really don't think it matters.

	▲	NewsaHackO 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		So if it came out that the NSA was attempting to put backdoors in consumer password managers, it wouldn't change the context of the side channel attack? How about if it was a company (like Google)? It seemed like an unserious question because I can't understand how someone would think something like that wouldn't change the situation.

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john_strinlai an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

for most people, nothing.

for threat intel people, a lot.