There was no Vermont electrical grid hack

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81. That doesn't surprise me.

Journalism certainly isn't what it used to be. Best practices requires an acknowledgement of any changes or updates at the end of the story.

Even our newspapers of record will sell out accuracy for online hits. The demise of journalistic standards and ethics helped to elect Trump. The importance of a free press to a well functioning democracy is so vital that the people insisted on it in the first amendment. It's too bad that editors and publishers don't take their jobs as seriously as they should.

The hard copy headline, however, is less sensational, but I've only seen the E-Replica, not the actual hard copy newspaper.

At any rate, the story is troubling, especially in the light of a president elect and his operatives defending foreign agents while throwing the current administration and intelligence community under the bus. I wonder if we'll still be checking for this kind of malicious code three weeks from now.