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.
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.