If it were a cyber attack would they let a foreign state actor know that their intelligence efforts to crash out infrastructure through official and unofficial action were successful?
If it were a foreign attack confirmation by the US wouldn't be necessary. You hack a thing and the thing goes down, you know it goes down regardless of the government saying it was foreign or not.
Depends on whether they outsource to third party contractors to fuck shit up with plausible deniability.
You're trying to sound smart and only sounding retarded. If I have the goal of shutting down FAA flight systems and get to my final bit to establish this shut down, then they shut down as is easily observable on any number of tracking systems available to the public. I now know that I was successful. The changes of another actor having this exact same goal as me and going about it at the exact same time as me are infinitesimal and able to be ignored.
This isn't an attack on secret infrastructure that there is no way of knowing if successful or unsuccessful is available - the confirmation is public by necessity.
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