The NSA has linked the WannaCry computer worm to North Korea
The only rational response to this is deep, deep skepticism.<p>In the old days of the USSR, while very difficult, it was at least conceivable that you could <i>just fly to moscow and see</i> if they were eating their children there or burning priests or god knows whatever else.<p>There was a natural limit to the deception that could occur <i>and further</i> a normal person could make conclusions about the things they saw with their own eyes.<p>Now, the enemy that "we have always been at war with" is a completely isolated (and economically trivial) state that virtually nobody travels to and who is attacking us with secret cyber weapons that only a domain expert with highly specialized experience could even recognize, much less qualify.<p>And the people that are telling us are those same people that are, or are not, secretly recording all of our conversations.<p>There's not one little thing there you could take at face value.