Is the recent report from the three-letter agencies on the alleged Russian hack of the Democratic National Committee evidence-based attribution or attributibabble?
Attitudes and judgments have these biases baked into them. Failing to appreciate this simple fact allows all sundry forms of popular nonsense to remain unchallenged. Such is the case with cyberattribution.
Faith-based attribution is a term used by security specialist Jeff rey Carr to denote nonscientific analysis that leads to untestable attribution to a security incident.
Phi Beta Iota: As the CIA's report clearly stated on page A-13, its conclusions were not based on evidence. John Brennan appears to be a politically-motivated liar who is retrospectively indictable for high crimes and misdemeanors.
On the Problem of (Cyber) Attribution
