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Quotes About Attribution

Governments almost never admit to hacking each other's computers. Researchers generally infer the country of origin from the target list.
~ Bruce Schneier
Unless attribution is followed by an effective response, it makes a country look weak, and it often makes sense for a nation not to publicly attribute a cyberattack unless it can respond.
~ Bruce Schneier
Attributing to anything or anyone more good than God has attributed to them is not a positive move, nor does it mean that you have done them any good. A single grain of truth is preferable to a bumper harvest of false imaginings.
~ Said Nursi
And usually the studios they don't want you to have credit for your movies because they want to take credit for the movies because if you get credit for your movies they've got to pay you more.
~ Jerry Bruckheimer
Cyberattacks have long been hard to stop because determining where they come from takes time - and sometimes the mystery is never solved.
~ David E. Sanger
The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.
~ Aldous Huxley
Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.
~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Even a cursory perusal reveals a very great range of reference. There is hardly a single human action that has not been called—in one way or another—an act of love. Nor is the range confined to the human sphere. If you proceed far enough in your reading, you will find that love has been attributed to almost everything in the universe; that is, everything that exists has been said by someone either to love or to be loved—or both.
~ Mortimer J. Adler
Cecelia Ahern asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of the work.
~ Cecelia Ahern
If there's a cyberattack from China or Russia or Romania or Mexico, it may well run through a server in another country. And it may take months before you know where it really came from.
~ David E. Sanger
Missy was quick to assign blame for her mistakes not to herself but to whoever caused her to lose control.
~ C.J. Box
Common sense argued that she shouldn't attribute to malice what could perfectly well be explained by stupidity,
~ Genevieve Cogman
We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We humans are the victims of an asymmetry in the perception of random events. We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness. We feel responsible for the good stuff, but not for the bad.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
We attribute our successes to our skills, and our failures to external events outside our control, namely to randomness. We
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
They will find something he did before when he was successful that he has subsequently stopped doing, and attribute his failure to that. The truth will be, however, that he simply ran out of luck.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
yet he gets little or no credit for it.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Everyone needs someone to blame.
~ Neal Shusterman
I've found out why men sign their names to their works- not that they created them but more than the others did not.
~ Charles Bukowski
When and why do we attribute a person's behavior to brain disease, and when and why do we not do so? Briefly, the answer is that we often attribute bad behavior to disease (to excuse the agent);never attribute good behavior to disease (lest we deprive the agent of credit); and typically attribute good behavior to free will and insist bad behavior called mental illness is a no fault act of nature.
~ Thomas Stephen Szasz
Anything can be misused. Furthermore, every individual has to assume responsibility for his or her own actions, even the poor and the young. A social system that decrees otherwise is inviting intellectual atrophy and spiritual stagnation.
~ Tom Robbins
Attribution is an enduring problem when it comes to forensic investigations. Computer attacks can be launched from anywhere in the world and routed through multiple hijacked machines or proxy servers to hide evidence of their source. Unless a hacker is sloppy about hiding his tracks, it's often not possible to unmask the perpetrator through digital evidence alone.
~ Kim Zetter
The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot
~ Carlos Marighella
Originality is the art of concealing your sources.
~ Anonymous