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I don't think anyone (including the Russians themselves) think this can be used as proof they don't engage in cyberwarfare. That's like saying that because the

I don't think anyone (including the Russians themselves) think this can be used as proof they don't engage in cyberwarfare. That's like saying that because the FBI (or whoever deals with cybercrime in the US) arrested some domestic hacking group on US soil, the NSA doesn't do any offensive hacking in other countries. No one would think that, so why should anyone think that of Russia?

qwertox 5y ago
It allows to divert a discussion, for example if a Russian politician/minister is confronted with the topic of the Ukraine in a press conference or an interviewer, then it would be easy to stop that discussion by responding with these arrests. The comparison to the NSA isn't that valid, since it is well known that the NSA does this, but I don't think that there would be many persons who would know a single thing the FSB has done in Cyberspace, unlike them being famous for poisoning and throwing people out of windows.
arcticbull 5y ago
> I don't think anyone (including the Russians themselves) think this can be used as proof they don't engage in cyberwarfare. This is how Russian propaganda works. Not just Russian, but authoritarian propaganda in general. It doesn't have to be believable.