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It is well known that such a dynamical system has a unique attractor, that is, a unique compact set \\(K\\subset X\\) which is nonempty and invariant by the IFS, in the following sense: \\(K=\\bigcup_{i=1} ^{n}f_{i}(K)\\). This paper addresses the following question: is every Cantor set an attractor of some iterated function system? For instance, the usual middle one third Cantor set is an attractor of the IFS \\(\\{f_{1},f_{2}\\}\\) on the real line defined by \\(f_{1}(x)=x/3\\) and \\(f_{2}(x)=x+2/3\\). The authors show that for some other metrics, the Cantor set is no more the attractor of an IFS.  Theorem: There exists a Cantor set \\(X_{1}\\) and a Borel probability measure \\(\\mu\\) supported on \\(X_{1}\\) such that for every contractive map \\(f\\) on \\(X_{1}\\), we have \\(\\mu (f(X_{1}))=0\\). Moreover, for any iterated function system on a complete metric space \\((X,d)\\), the attractor \\(K\\) is not isometric to the Cantor set \\(X_{1}\\).   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