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> Why say that? Why not just say you were attacked and going to try and determine why and make any changes

Because they would be out of business tomorrow if they say they think it was a 13 year old from Ohio just fooling around on a Sunday.

This is FireEye marketing itself for the F500 by selling fear of an invisible adversary with unlimited resources that already deliver innovative black hat capabilities.

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> if they say they think it was a 13 year old from Ohio

How could you read my comment and think that is what I thought they should say?? I said not to say anything. And why use hyperbole ie 'they would be out of business tomorrow'.

And no it's not marketing anymore than if a Karate expert airs that he was beat up in an alley and then says 'but the person was 9 feet tall that's why!'. (But sure to your point if they said 'by a 13 year old' that would not be better but once again I didn't say that.)

But your oneliner leaves that much range open for interpretation and if a company is not this specific journalist are going to speculate because even the FBI has had 13 year olds harvesting chaos in their ecosystem.

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