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No way; this is the kind of thing that can become a state-secret level advantage. Seriously, it's a graph processor. Graph analysis is basically the entire job
by exelius 9y ago
No way; this is the kind of thing that can become a state-secret level advantage.
Seriously, it's a graph processor. Graph analysis is basically the entire job of a modern intelligence agency.
There's a cold-war level arms race going on in cybersecurity. Russia embarrassed us with their sophisticated cyberwarfare capability in the last election -- they were able to infiltrate both campaigns AND the FBI (they used false information to manipulate Comey into making a statement -- which required them to know how conflicted he was over interference in the Clinton e-mail thing), and undoubtedly were behind the news cycles in the months before the election.
Better/more condensed graph analysis capability, at the scale that the three-letter-agencies use it? That's a strategic advantage. You can bet the Russians are working on something similar. If they haven't already -- throughout the cold war they tended to push the frontier of technology faster than the US, but had trouble mobilizing that advantage because communism was so damn inefficient.
- akiselev 9y ago> they used false information to manipulate Comey into making a statement -- which required them to know how conflicted he was over interference in the Clinton e-mail thing Sidenote: Comey strongly implied (damn near said it really) in his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee yesterday that this did not actually happen and the news articles were way off. Makes you wonder what did actually happen.
- scarhill 9y agoIf it did happen, would it be in his interest to admit it?
- semi-extrinsic 9y agoWould he even know it (without the Russians coming out and saying so)?
- tkahnoski 9y agoI think the comment is referring to this story: http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/26/politics/james-comey-fbi-investigation-fake-russian-intelligence/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/26/politics/james-comey-fbi-inves... I missed this exchange in the livestream, relevant bit: "BURR: Were there other things that contributed to that that you can describe in an open session? COMEY: There were other things that contributed to that. One significant item I can’t, I know the committee’s been briefed on. There’s been some public accounts of it, which are nonsense, but I understand the committee’s been briefed on the classified facts." We obviously don't know what the classified facts are. This also seems to be in reference to the announcements in late summer vs the disclosure right before the election which I haven't found anything in the transcript about. Full Transcript: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/politics/senate-hearing-transcript.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/08/us/politics/senate-hearin... (Aside: linking to NY times because it was slightly less ad heavy than other sites I could find. Couldn't find a single one without auto-play video...)
- holistia 9y agoThat's actually one of the most interesting things I've heard to come out of this. Not sure why I haven't read more about this until now.
- tzakrajs 9y ago> they used false information to manipulate Comey into making a statement -- which required them to know how conflicted he was over interference in the Clinton e-mail thing Source?
- chrisallenlane 9y ago> Russia embarrassed us with their sophisticated cyberwarfare capability in the last election I'm still unclear how "sophisticated" these attacks were. Per the unclassified information, all I've heard mentioned is: 1. social media manipulation 2. traditional media manipulation (RT) 3. email spearphishing None of the above strikes me as particularly sophisticated, even if it's potentially effective. (I don't know if it was effective or not in the case of the election.) Of course, I have no idea what the classified information says regarding any of this.
- warkdarrior 9y agoSophistication means technical complexity, but also scale. Certainly social-media manipulation requires a large-scale approach to make it feasible.