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no bull and the aftermath.

And what this case shows is that solving the attribution problem on technical grounds

doesn't solve the attribution problem because there's a public element attribution.

Part of the reason, part of the importance for attribution is to justify countermeasures

and other measures taken in response to a cyber attack or cyber exploitation.

And that involves public justification and public justification involves evidence,

credibility and trust.

And different audiences are going to have different levels of trust about what can come

you see.

So the answer to your question depends on what audience you're talking about, who are

you trying to convince, and why.

I'm not sure how important it is for us to provide more evidence for any countermeasure

if you're taking this for real.

It's not going to have, or three is not going to have a lot of defenders.

If this were countermeasures taken in Russia or China, we might have to do a hell of a lot

more.

I'm Cody Poplin and this is the LawFair Podcast, January 10th, 2015.

That was Jack Goldsmith you just heard, Harvard Law Professor and co-founder of LawFair.

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