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December's arrests came shortly after the United States accused Russia of trying to influence its presidential election through computer hacking, an accusation
by zigzigzag 10y ago
December's arrests came shortly after the United States accused Russia of trying to influence its presidential election through computer hacking, an accusation Moscow denies
They're referring to the Clinton campaign leaks here, right? Not actual hacking of voting infrastructure, which is what it sounds like. Unless the story has moved on whilst I wasn't watching.
- jlgaddis 10y agoIt has.
- zigzigzag 10y agoSo can you show me evidence of this? Because a few of the obvious Google searches to try just throw up lots of western news stories saying that no such thing ever happened.
- mikeyouse 10y agoVia Krebs, they are suspected of being tied to these hacks: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-illinois-state-board-of-elections-hack-update-met-0830-20160829-story.html http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/politics/ct-illinoi... https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-is-investigating-foreign-hacks-of-state-election-systems/2016/08/29/6e758ff4-6e00-11e6-8365-b19e428a975e_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/fbi-i...
- zigzigzag 10y agoThose two stories both refer to incidents that have nothing to do with affecting election outcomes, and could have been done by anyone. There's a lot of insinuation that it's by generic "Russians" and there sure is a lot of online crime coming out of former Soviet states, but as the second article points out in the text, it can easily be criminals. This is especially the case because American personal details are so easily used for various forms of financial fraud. But we're not talking about petty theft of SSNs which may or may not come from Russians here. We're talking about deliberate foreign intelligence operations against actual voting infrastructure. Which hasn't happened.