Of course you cover your trails if you do a hack. As a minimum you get a server to work from (and have your backdoors point back to) that does not directly lin

Of course you cover your trails if you do a hack. As a minimum you get a server to work from (and have your backdoors point back to) that does not directly link back to you. Typically another hacked machine - not necessarily hacked by you - you can buy them cheaply on dark net market places. DNC has an obvious interest in spinning this and they seem to have done this very successfully. What bothers me is that no-one seems to be able to separate politics from technical assessment. Even people with deep technical insights such as mr. Schneier. I think the chance of Trump's presidency scares a lot of people and that scare clouds judgement. I don't have any say in the american election but I think that people overestimate what the presidential post means and underestimate the check-and-balances of the rest of democratic system (congress, legal system, existing GOP apparatus, press and so on).