The Sony hack revealed the challenges of identifying perpetrators of cyberattacks, especially as hackers can masquerade as government soldiers and spies, and vice versa. It’s a dangerous new dynamic for foreign relations, especially as what governments know about hackers – and how they know it – remains secret.

The vigorous debate after theSony Pictures breach pitted the Obama administration against many of us in the cybersecurity community whodidn’t buy Washington’s claim that North Korea was the culprit.

What’s both amazing—and perhaps a bit frightening—about that dispute over who hacked Sony is that it happened in the first place…