Heres what you need to know about Russias election hacking - WaPo

[Bill USA]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/12/14/heres-what-you-need-to-know-about-the-cias-assessment-into-russia-hacking-so-far/?utm_term=.eced929226c7

Here’s what you need to know about Russia’s election meddling:

•U.S. intelligence suggests Russia helped Trump win the presidency and that the Kremlin’s hacking efforts were disproportionately aimed at the Democratic Party.

•Previously, the U.S. intelligence community had said that Moscow’s goals were limited to disrupting the election.
•U.S. officials believe a Russian military spy agency hacked the Democratic National Committee and provided WikiLeaks with thousands of emails.

•Officials say the Russian government also “breached” the Republican National Committee’s computer systems, but are less certain whether the hackers were able to extract information. The RNC denies it was hacked.

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[Wellstone ruled]

1. On today's edtion

of Charlie Rose,his guest was Susan Rice who claims the Hacking has not stopped. She claimed the Russian Hackers are hitting every Political Agency and their personnel. When asked about hacking DNC and GOP headquarters,yes they were hacked and probably still are.

[Igel]

2. Why would they have stacked?

That shows misunderstanding of the actors involved. Some are state. Many aren't. Some are grey, "patriotic" (in the same way that the KKK was patriotic), and governmental when it suits them and the government and not when it's not.

I get spearfished by Russian-based actors of some kind on a regular basis.

At my personal email.

Less often I get phished at work, but then again my employer is paranoid about such things and actively screens email. It's almost Monty-Pythonesque to the extent I've had messages even from my supervisor and *his* supervisor put into quarantine. I've seen myself email that was marked "suspicious." Gee.

Now, granted I have a very sensitive job. I teach public high-school science.

In this case, it's not the information that's presented that's important; it's the evidence that's not presented that somehow makes the targets seem utterly not unique.