Security quotes of the week

I understand it is "old", but if it is off-topic, why was it posted in the first place?

To me, it is significant to find out *what actually happened*. When these articles initially came out, I was highly curious what happened. Usually media articles are so thin on tech info, you can't really figure out how they came to the conclusions they did. But then they say their confirming source is no less than Paul Vixie (I ran BIND back in the 90s...), it makes the claim that much stronger. But I was still perplexed how they could come to all these conclusions just from DNS root server logs. It is also notable that there *were* root nameserver log files that are kept for this type of analysis. Who is doing that?

Vixie's claim:

> “The parties were communicating in a secretive fashion. The operative word is secretive. This is more akin to what criminal syndicates do if they are putting together a project.”

Paul Vixie used his credibility to validate the claim. This is an extraordinary claim and now appears to be made up wholly for political reasons. (I suppose I should also point out, I'm not a Trump supporter. I became very skeptical of "Russia" claims after they had been using them against Julian Assange, who I do not believe is a Russian asset.)