Also weird are the comments alleging this is really some US spy op, and not the Russian state.
Russia has the motive and means and unless other evidence comes to light, it seems likely that they are behind it.
They don't know. But it is fashionable to blame the Russians. /s
Some more discussion on official post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39641953
We were doing that prior to 2017. Thank God someone like China can't ever do that, even nearly a decade after we did and we can trust these sort of accusations at face value and not at all think critically about them.
For data exfiltration, which is like robbing a bank vault, you'll need more than a fake address. It's orders of magnitude more difficult to cover your tracks, and you only need to leave one clue behind to undo all that work.
For the US to have the capability to be aware of that they would have to be engaged in unconstitutional spying on US citizens. A thing they have claimed to have stopped doing.
"Trust us, we are lying"
P.S. this also means the feds have the ability to stop child sexual exploitation that takes place over the internet in its tracks but decided not to.
As you can imagine, it’s harder to reuse someone else’s infrastructure. Easy to copy code patterns but you can’t exactly reuse domains, listening posts etc.
How is that even possible and how does it help? A computer is like a state machine where a minuscule amount of states are logged. When the state is gone the trace is gone. And you don't control the other involved computers anyway. And what good does accessing "exfiltrated data" do?
X: Russians Chinese Iran (current US enemy)
