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There is no asymmetry in capability but there is an asymmetry in the desire to provoke. Russia has solidified its role in the world as essentially - a geopoliti
by papito 5y ago
There is no asymmetry in capability but there is an asymmetry in the desire to provoke. Russia has solidified its role in the world as essentially - a geopolitical troll. "Stabbing in the back", the thing they accuse everyone else of, is the strategy.
NATO does not want this fight, and they do not have the hierarchy of plausible deniability, which the Russian security services have perfected to a form of art.
"Independent" hacking groups do jobs for the government, in exchange to freely conduct mercenary for-profit attacks without fear of being jailed.
NATO countries don't have this system. If they do something, they do it without proxies.
https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/dutch-intelligence-hacked-video-cameras-in-office-of-russians-who-hacked-dnc/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/01/dutch...
- naasking 5y ago> There is no asymmetry in capability but there is an asymmetry in the desire to provoke. Or asymmetry in the desire to report it. Any country reports threats against them wide and far, and they downplay or ignore any threatening actions they make. > NATO countries don't have this system. If they do something, they do it without proxies. Colour me skeptical. "Open and transparent" is just not how intelligence services operate.
- papito 5y agoIntelligence agencies obviously rarely do PR. Give one example of a NATO hacking "proxy" getting caught. There have been multiple Russian ones.