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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
The CBS article says that the report doesn't say that the Russians were actually successful in compromising the voting machine. It does say a separate spear-phishing attack was launched on local government organization and the NSA doesn't know if that attack was successful.
Even if they didn't get what they wanted, it does beg the question of what else they did we haven't discovered yet.
In the process of reading the Intercept article, these are the salient bullet points:
- Russian-directed phishing operations were aimed at VR Systems, a contractor that deals with voter registration databases, from which they tried to gain footholds in local election offices by emulating them.
- This happened in October after Obama gave Putin the warning not to mess with the voting processes.
- It is still not known whether the Russians succeeded in gaining any foothold that had actual influence on Election Day processes.
The Hill also confirmed this.
edited 5th Jun '17 3:19:32 PM by megaeliz
Destroying Theodore Roosevelt's Conservation legacy, one monument at a time.
And over a hundred cities and buisnesses commit to the Paris Agreement.
edited 5th Jun '17 6:28:44 PM by megaeliz
Man, if T.R. was still alive, he'd almost certainly hate what his party has become. And he'd probably fight them while he was at it.
"Cynic, n. — A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be." - The Devil's DictionaryIt doesn't help us unless we can get the government to act on is (their failure to in itself being a story). We still need a smoking gun that directly ties Trump to this mess.
If a competent administration was in charge, there would be serious repercussions. Putin's government kept crossing the line they were explicitly warned not to cross after they were warned not to cross it.
These were email phishing attacks to get at the credentials of people working in the election process. It doesn't neccecarily follow they got access to the voting machines/databases themselves. It depends on the level of access their catches had and what could be exploited from them/posing as them. The decentralization of our election system also makes it harder for a success in one place to translate to success in another (though it also works against us in that it's harder to get issues investigated).
edited 5th Jun '17 5:50:01 PM by Elle
Just caught Seth Meyers' take on Trump's latest tweets
, resulting in a rather brutal takedown of Kellyanne Conway saying, on Good Morning America, that the press shouldn't be paying so much attention to Trump's tweets.
- GMA Host: That's his preferred method of communication with the American people.
Kellyanne: That's not true.
Seth then played a clip of her appearing on his show back in January stating this.
edited 5th Jun '17 6:46:37 PM by ironballs16
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The whole email part of that story may have been a violation of basic cybersecurity. Though a common one. Everyone's probably had to sit through the seminar about checking any emails from vendors, etc through IT.
edited 5th Jun '17 6:54:41 PM by CenturyEye
Look with century eyes... With our backs to the arch And the wreck of our kind We will stare straight ahead For the rest of our lives
wrong party, but see your point.
Even Nixon had his good points. He signed the clean air act, which helped clean up pittsburgh and many cities. Imagine, government regulation doing something good.
I'm at my grandmas house, and she's listening to Fox News. It's facinating. They are playing to the emotions, and rationalizing hate. They have used the terms, extreme vetting without irony, 20,000 thousand jihadists living in the United Kingdom, Radical Islamic terrorism, and all I see is fearmongering. I swear they even suggested that we should have a policy on terrorism like after nine eleven or like during the Cold War. It almost sounded like House of Un-American Activities stuff.
edited 5th Jun '17 8:01:16 PM by megaeliz
To be fair, there wasn't much Nixon could do when a Lake Erie tributary caught fire in 1969, though it'd also caught fire 12 times before that
. It's why The Lorax included the line "I hear things are just as bad up in Lake Erie", though later printings omitted it when the problem got addressed.
edited 5th Jun '17 8:15:39 PM by ironballs16
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"

You know what thought just terrified me? What if this is the thing that convinces Trump the russians did meddle and he decides that reacting to it will make him loved.
Given his approach to foreign politics this worries me.
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