Kerry is questioning the NYT publishing cyberwar story

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6. Researchers conclude Flame related to Stuxnet

I just don't think this stuff is all that "top secret" if we can read about all this on Techmeme.

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/flame-tied-to-stuxnet/

I consider Kaspersky Labs pretty reputable, so we now know that the U.S./Israel is also responsible for Flame. It just isn't in the "Paper of Record" yet.

Let's face it, on one hand it's scary the way the internet can be disrupted. OTOH, it actually doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out who is responsible in most cases especially when it's a state actor. That is why all strategic decisions on cyberwar activities should ASSUME it will eventually be revealed who did the hacking. As Karen said upthread, Iran no doubt knew who did this pretty early on, but either a) could not launch a good enough attack or b) chose not to because the price they would pay for doing so made it not worth it.

I just don't agree with McCain and the GOP that this is a story that makes Obama look good. So, in that sense it's a nonstory. Now the other side of it is what a lot of lefties are upset about which is the Obama Administration aggressively going after whistleblowers even when they are trying to get the truth out there. But nobody seems to care about that except the Glenn Greenwalds of the world.