[governance] Guccifer 2.0 DNC’s servers hacked by a lone hacker

[Suresh Ramasubramanian]

On 19-Jun-2016, at 1:02 AM, willi uebelherr <willi.uebelherr at riseup.net> wrote:
> 
> In this text from vocativ at the end i found:
> "He (Jeffrey Carr, CEO of cybersecurity firm Taia Global) did, however, caution against CrowdStrike’s original analysis, stressing the enormous difficulty of definitively attributing any sophisticated cyberattack. “I’m skeptical almost all the time when it comes to attribution,” he said. “I think the entire historical assignment of [government-affiliated] actors…was just wrong. That they were never part of an intelligence service or military service in the Russian government, that they were always independent hackers, and we don’t really know who they are.”"

This is where terms like “non state actors” and “plausible deniability” come in to further muddy the picture.

The jury is still out on this and it will take quite a bit of time and research to unearth more facts.  Which, given the sensitivity of this issue, may not ever be made public, who knows.

—srs
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