Palo Alto Networks opted not to tie China to a global cyberespionage campaign the firm exposed last week over concerns that the cybersecurity company or its clients could face retaliation from Beijing, according to two people familiar with the matter.
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This is wild and I hope Palo customers give them a lot of shit over this. "Attribution is irrelevant" is such a chicken shit way to appease a government that is positioning itself to cause real harm to real people by attacking real world critical infrastructure.
The change, the sources said, was ordered by Palo Alto executives because they were concerned by the software ban and feared drawing retaliation from Chinese authorities, either against the company’s personnel in China or its clients elsewhere.
Put a fucking lampshade over the heads of those executives. Goddamn cowards. The relevance of attribution is for their customers to decide, not them