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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMust read this:The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html?_r=0&referer=https://t.co/PQBwaIlF0jHis message was brief, if alarming. At least one computer system belonging to the D.N.C. had been compromised by hackers federal investigators had named the Dukes, a cyberespionage team linked to the Russian government.
The F.B.I. knew it well: The bureau had spent the last few years trying to kick the Dukes out of the unclassified email systems of the White House, the State Department and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff, one of the governments best-protected networks.
Yared Tamene, the tech-support contractor at the D.N.C. who fielded the call, was no expert in cyberattacks. His first moves were to check Google for the Dukes and conduct a cursory search of the D.N.C. computer system logs to look for hints of such a cyberintrusion. By his own account, he did not look too hard even after Special Agent Hawkins called back repeatedly over the next several weeks in part because he wasnt certain the caller was a real F.B.I. agent and not an impostor.
Old Vet
(2,001 posts)From the idiots at the DNC, To the lack of importance on every level.
boston bean
(36,221 posts)boston bean
(36,221 posts)If someone has alternate link for people who dont have a subscription that would be good.
boston bean
(36,221 posts)Cha
(297,220 posts)Don't have time now.. later!
etherealtruth
(22,165 posts)Read a little, but bookmarking tot read after work
CanSocDem
(3,286 posts)...has been running a series called "Cyberwars" recently and they make it clear that Russian hackers, while not part of the government, operate without interference for the highest bidder.
It's not hard to see why they have been successful. Americans, with their goofy optimism and need to belong, leave all these doors open that Russians and east Europeans have historically kept closed for generations out of fear of reprisal and jail.
It's a new world. And if the USA wants to keep calling itself 'the boss', it should realize that it is no longer about who has the most guns.
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blue neen
(12,321 posts)Came here to put up the link, but saw that you had already done so.
I feel sick and stunned. Every one in this country should be required to read what the Russians have done to us. It's not about Democrats and Republicans. The Russians have information to use on our country, whenever they want.
Frankly, Donald Trump should be terrified. Can you imagine all the information they have on him? Does he really think the Russians will spare him? Or maybe Trump already knows the intel they're willing to divulge about him----hence he will do their bidding. Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State.
blue neen
(12,321 posts)for being so helpful to the Russians in their cyber warfare.
You did everything they wanted.