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> For years, Painter was responsible for America's cyber policy. He resigned last August. 'We'd never expected that the Russians would do this, attacking our vi
by stryk 9y ago
> For years, Painter was responsible for America's cyber policy. He resigned last August. 'We'd never expected that the Russians would do this, attacking our vital infrastructure and undermining our democracy.'
Horse. Shit. They've been doing it to us, and we've been doing it to everyone else, for a LONG time.
- EGreg 9y agoYeah, seriously. "We never expected this" while, say, hacking Angela Merkel's phone and spying on friendly countries in addition to installing backdoors everywhere... This list is an exaggeration by someone with an extreme position but every one of these had US involement: https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peoples-governments-the-master-list https://williamblum.org/essays/read/overthrowing-other-peopl... It also is missing the ironic involvement of the USA dispatching people to help Boris Yeltzin come back from losing to winning the Russian elections in the 90s (it's not even a secret, see the movie Spinning Boris). Can someone tell me exactly what the word "hacking" means when people say "Russians hacked the election" over and above what was continuously happening by many countries the whole time?
- akhilcacharya 9y agoThe USA is now the lone superpower. The standards are (and should be) different from 1990s Russia.
- geezerjay 9y agoIn your eyes, what does this make China?
- FrozenTuna 9y agoWhat's a China? /s. A superpower is defined as "a county that has the capacity to project dominating power and influence anywhere in the world". I'm assuming he didn't know that before, but now we can all agree, US is far from the only country that can project dominating power and influence.
- EGreg 9y agoBesides the other commenters, I don't understand what the conclusion of your argument means, even granting the premise.