Re:"Dutch engineer carried out Iranian nuclear sabotage": VK
by red-iron-pine on Monday January 08, 2024 @09:22AM
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> I don't think the AIVD has been criticized for being ineffective, if anything the other way around.
reputation, carefully curated, is that they're small but can punch above their weight.
they watched the Russians hack the US Democrats in real time, for example. that's how we know Guccifer was the Russians -- Dutch intel was already on those systems. Woulda been nice if they stopped them, but you don't become an APT by intervening constantly or blowing 0-days willy-nilly, and the attribution was useful enough.
Yes, it could have been considered an act of war, and have caused major issues. There's a parliamentary commission that's responsible for controlling the Dutch intelligence services, consisting out of the leaders of the 5 biggest parties in parliament. The fact that they weren't informed is a scandal.
> Nice to see that European intelligence services are still capable of something
I don't think the AIVD has been criticized for being ineffective, if anything the other way around.