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Iranian Hackers Targeted Presidential Campaign, Microsoft Says
- williesleg 7y agoNice! Gotta love hacker news!
- longliveTrump 7y agoI have a brilliant idea, Just let Iranian and Russian hackers fight against each other and see who can win
- kragen 7y agoThat's going on already. The US elections are one result.
- quotz 7y agoIts not like US and Israeli hackers are doing anything different to other countries
- jedberg 7y agoAll the more reason the US should be protecting itself from these sorts of things, don't you think?
- boomboomsubban 7y agoNot really. If it's fine for the US to do this, why should Iran doing it be a big problem?
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- GhettoMaestro 7y agoThere is a mile-wide difference in acceptable behavior endorsed "from the top down" in each system. The US, for all of its faults, attempts to reign in immoral and counter-productive behavior within its sphere of influence. Iran is a net-exporter of terrorism (methodologies, material, and financial support). And I am keeping it very civil in my description of the differences. By posing the question "[...] why should Iran doing it be a big problem?", I view you as purposely being disingenuous. You know why. The Iranian political leadership is a clear problem. To be clear about my words: The Iranian people are NOT the problem. The Iranian leadership is the problem. The Iranian people are pawns on the chess-board between the US and Iran. They are the group I feel the most sadness for in terms of who is paying the biggest cost.
- boomboomsubban 7y ago>The US, for all of its faults, attempts to reign in immoral and counter-productive behavior within its sphere of influence. Iran is a net-exporter of terrorism (methodologies, material, and financial support How is exporting billions in arms to Saudi Arabia and assisting them in continuing the Yemen war/blockade attempting to reign in immoral behavior? Why is Iran's "exporting terrorism" so much worse despite killing far fewer civilians? >I view you as purposely being disingenuous. Nope. A moral high ground should not enable a country to interfere in foreign elections, nor does the US have such a moral high ground.
- quotz 7y agowell, at least the public shouldn't be surprised when others are doing the same. I mean if you ask for trouble why would you be surprised when trouble comes your way? US politics is extremely hypocritical and aggressive.
- JetSpiegel 7y agoAnd yet, Reality Winner is in jail for revealing foreign interference in US elections.
- yyyk 7y agoAh, so apparently foreign interference in the US is fine? I'd say your post is whataboutry, but actually, it's not even that - you don't really have any reason to believe US or Israel do anything like that.
- acruns 7y agoThis is news?
- rpmisms 7y agoSo, the US does this to literally everyone, and it's not a big deal. Someone does it to us, and suddenly our democracy is dying. Downvoters: please explain why I'm wrong. I don't support any electoral interference.
- boomboomsubban 7y agoMicrosoft's post reads more like an advertisement for accountguard than reporting on a large threat.
- subculture 7y agoCyber retaliation from Iran should be on the mind of anyone in the government thinking of military escalation with them. War-time presidents may get a boost before an election, but public support will quickly turn if hardship comes to US soil via hacks to our power grid or other infrastructure.
- rado 7y agoSeems legit.