Re Entire US political system 'under attack' by Russian hacking, experts warn

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: Daniel Berninger <dan () danielberninger com>
> Date: October 14, 2016 at 3:42:27 PM EDT
> To: "dave" <dave () farber net>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Entire US political system 'under attack' by Russian hacking, experts warn
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> Dave,
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> The framing of the "under attack" Guardian article on the Wikileaks disclosures offers irrelevant hand wringing 
> without substance.
>
> Even if someone provides the still non-existent evidence of Russia as the origin of the hacks, any hacking/disclosure 
> scenario implicates first the question of technical *(in)competence* of the hacked entity.
>
> Unless someone wants to claim the emails are bogus, it is irrelevant whether the hacker is Russian or Donald Duck.
>
> It is official (albeit idiotic given the track record) policy of the United States to emphasize offensive over 
> defensive tactics in cyberwar (see link).  
>
> http://www.defense.gov/News/Special-Reports/0415_Cyber-Strategy
>
> The transparency resulting from Wikileaks disclosure of the Podesta emails represents a one time event as the John 
> Podestas of the world seem likely to try harder to conceal communication.
>
> Given the nonsense WMD narrative used to pitch the Iraq war, it seems an urgent cause for the citizenry to call-out 
> the bullshit nonsense.
>
> A search for "wikileaks" via Google News reveals *zero* main stream media coverage beyond attempts at discrediting 
> Wikileaks as per the Guardian article - try it.
>
> The entire burden of covering recent wikileaks disclosures is carried by second tier alternative media.
>
> Dan
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> ---- On Fri, 14 Oct 2016 14:06:04 -0400Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote ----
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> From: Hendricks Dewayne <dewayne () warpspeed com>
> Date: October 14, 2016 at 11:05:17 AM EDT
> To: Multiple recipients of Dewayne-Net <dewayne-net () warpspeed com>
> Subject: [Dewayne-Net] Entire US political system 'under attack' by Russian hacking, experts warn
> Reply-To: dewayne-net () warpspeed com
> Entire US political system ‘under attack’ by Russian hacking, experts warn
> Meanwhile, some US commentators on cybersecurity issues have suggested that these attacks are not a surprise but 
> appear to be a new spin on an old strategy
> By Geof Wheelwrightin Seattle
> Oct 14 2016
> <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/14/hillary-clinton-email-hack-russia-cybersecurity>
>
> It could have been a cold war drama. The world watched this week as accusations and counter-accusations were thrown 
> by the American and Russian governments about documents stolen during a hack of the Democratic National Committee and 
> the email account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta.
>
> The notion that public figures have any right to privacy appears to have been lost in the furore surrounding the 
> story, stolen correspondence being bandied around in attempts to influence the outcome of one of the nastiest, most 
> vitriolic US presidential campaigns in history. 
>
> Some have argued that as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton’s emails were fair game for hacking because had they not 
> been held on a private server, they would have been subject to freedom of information requests and available to the 
> general public.
>
> There may be some truth to that, but it doesn’t change the fact that correspondence between public figures has 
> allegedly been hacked by those acting under the direction of a foreign government and released for everyone to 
> peruse, with little opportunity for the authors to offer context or even confirm that the contents of the leaks are 
> accurate.
>
> The hacks have created a dilemma for American voters, according to Rob Guidry, CEO of social media analytics company 
> Sc2 and a former special adviser to US Central Command. He says voters seem to want the information that has been 
> leaked by the hackers but don’t feel entirely comfortable with the hacks that have brought the information to light.
>
> “What I find most intriguing about this is that many establishment outlets – including Fox News – are now actively 
> turning to WikiLeaks and others for information that used to be provided by freedom of information requests,” he 
> said. “It’s a rather strange turn of events.”
>
> Malcolm Nance, a former naval intelligence officer and author of The Plot to Hack America: How Putin’s Cyberspies and 
> WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election, suggests there is a deliberate strategy behind the timing of release of 
> the hacked emails. The latest leaks mix false information with text extracted from real, stolen emails, he said. 
> “This is a slow-roll political attack on the entire political infrastructure of America. It is Watergate – it’s 
> literally Watergate. They did what Nixon couldn’t do.”
>
> The US government is taking a very direct approach in calling out what it says is Russian-directed hacking. That’s 
> significant – according to Richard Stiennon, author of There Will Be Cyberwar – because there is nothing new in what 
> the Russian government has allegedly done in the 2016 election cycle.
>
> “Russian interference with US elections is not ‘heating up’ per se, as much as it’s coming out of the shadows,” says 
> Stiennon, who is also chief strategy officer of Georgia-based data security company Blancco Technology Group. 
> “Hacking the DNC and Democratic congressional campaigns and then the leaking of stolen emails is somewhat ham-fisted, 
> but it’s an escalation of Russian disinformation campaigns,” he said.
>
> Stiennon also warned that one deeply disturbing potential result of these efforts could be to cause Americans to 
> question the validity of the results of their presidential election.
>
> [snip]
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