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>I find it amazing how strong the anti-Russian rumor mongering is in this election. Because there's evidence? If there was countervailing evidence that some ot
by akhilcacharya 10y ago
>I find it amazing how strong the anti-Russian rumor mongering is in this election.
Because there's evidence? If there was countervailing evidence that some other organization was at fault, I'm all ears, but there's currently only one probable explanation.
- dmix 10y agoThere has been quite a few claims of Russian hacks recently that were based on very weak evidence. Additionally, most of the stronger claims came from anonymous gov sources without any public evidence at all. So this is why people are becoming skeptical of the Russian fear mongering. And yes,they are a threat and are hacking public networks just like the NSA, GCHQ, PRC, etc but it seems like the automatic reflex to blame Russia for everything. Which is unscientific and risky - for example, it makes it easy for other adversaries to fool the victims into thinking they are Russian just by using a Russian proxy server to conduct attacks.