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> Russia embarrassed us with their sophisticated cyberwarfare capability in the last election I'm still unclear how "sophisticated" these attacks were. Per the
by 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.