Russian Hacking
13th December 2016
Jerry Pournelle, who actually has some expertise in this area, shares some thoughts.
Signals from one server to another san often be recorded as they go by. With enough effort some of that can be read. Is that hacking? The Russian Intelligence Community is itself divided, between the successors of the State Security Committee (KGB) and the military intelligence organization (GRU). Both still exist but I think under different names; the KGB was successor to the ministry if the Interior, and went by MVD, NKVD, and a other names; there was also a party intelligence agency under the Soviets; I believe its assets were mostly absorbed by the KGB, which itself divided into an internal and an external agency, like the British MI 5 and MI5. Of course there are the remains of the old spy nets in the US and Canada; they are officially disbanded, and you can believe as much of that as you want to.
What they don’t have is infinite resources. They have enough to go after the low hanging fruit like a private server used by the Secretary of State, but hacking the Democratic National Committee with a goal of influencing an American election?
December 13th, 2016 at 10:40
Bottom line: Hillary and her team were behind all the corruption and lies. Who opened the door and turned on the light is irrelevant.
December 13th, 2016 at 11:37
Except that doors were opened and lights turned on selectively in order to nudge the process in the direction Vladimir wanted.
And define “ALL the corruption and lies”, specifically the word “all”. I expect over-exaggeration from the conservative wing, but that’s a pretty breathtakingly sweeping indictment even for you right-leaners.