Remember the 'Russia Hoax' ?

@trollslayer

Yup. Social media is a legitimately serious tool in modern votes because not only can propaganda be spread quickly and easily, the same algorithms that make micro targeting possible for ads also make microtargeting possible for propaganda.

@helenS

This isn't my estimation. This is the estimation of counterintelligence and security agencies and is not based on Russian propaganda but on documented instances of Russian cyber attacks.

Don't be lulled into thinking that because Russia is bungling the ground war in Ukraine that they must therefor be incompetent in every area.
Indeed, that is exactly the sort of belief that Russian cyber intelligence would like you to have.

@Pikachu Totally disagree with you – on that specific point only. It's all just posture. Russia is like a frog that blows up like a balloon to scare others. If you put a needle in it, it will go pfffffttttt....

@helenS

I don't think it's just posturing because they have a successful track record.

[quote]Russia is a cyber-superpower with a serious arsenal of cyber-tools, and hackers capable of disruptive and potentially destructive cyber-attacks ... NotPetya is thought to be the most costly cyber-attack in history and has been blamed on a group of Russian military hackers by the US, UK and EU authorities.[/quote]
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60841924


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October 2022. Pro-Russian hackers claimed responsibility for an attack that knocked U.S. state government websites offline, including Colorado’s, Kentucky’s and Mississippi’s.

September 2022. A Russian-based hacking group targeted the website of the United Kingdom’s intelligence agency MI5 with a DDoS attack that temporarily took the site offline.

May 2022. Russian hackers hit Italian websites with a DDoS attack, including the Senate, the Ministry of Defence and the National Health Institute. The group states its goal was to target NATO countries and Ukraine.

April 2022. Russian hackers targeted the Costa Rican Ministry of Finance in a cyberattack, crippling tax collection and export systems. The newly elected President of Costa Rica declared a national emergency as a result of the attack and the group asked for $20 million in ransom or it plans to leak the stolen data.
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https://www.csis.org/programs/strategic-technologies-program/significant-cyber-incidents

And so on ad so forth.
Sad to say that at least on this front, Russia is not just boasting.

@RodionRomanovitch

@RodionRomanovitch you haven’t given me any proof, all of you’ve given me is something that would be dismissed as some fringe crazy if it didn’t support a certain political narrative. There are also interviews with high ranking people talking about ritual human sacrifices and what not, is that conclusive proof of that too?

@pianoplayingsteve
That is the picture that was used on the news in Europe there is nothing illegal about having a head office even the composer needs one.

@RuyLopez so what you’re saying is Americans are very very easily influenced, when it comes to elections, you lot must be very weak minded

@ididntknow Really? Where you from?

@JimboSaturn : ‘I disagree with them so they gotta be bots.. my source? Just trust me bro’. Let’s say he did admit it. There could be many reasons for ‘admitting it’. Blackmail?

@pianoplayingsteve I do agree with you that it would be strange for him to admit it because that might prevent him from being successful in the future.

@JimboSaturn yeah so as usual that sort of thing is rubbish. ‘Hello world I committed a crime by the way. Could have gotten away with it but nah I’ll take interviews on it’. Seriously this whole bot narrative thing is stupid, especially when it’s pushed by the left who will then just outright deny any sort of accusation by the right of election interference. Stupid red team vs blue team turning politics into sports ball

@twiigss No US administration has placed more sanctions on Russia than the Trump administration. That's weirdly at odds with what Mr. Trump said when he was president. The discrepancy is hard to understand.

@SW-User He thinks he's being cute by being deliberately obtuse. It's what passes for discussion amongst the intellectually challenged.

@RodionRomanovitch you don’t know what I’m thinking. But this site seems to be up full of ‘hur hur anyone I disagree with is stupid’ arguments.

@SW-User The day after Barrack gets off, this point is less poignant.

Russian interference was never really deniable by anyone, but the parallel interests between Trump and his aides looking for money and power from Russia and MAGA types looking to destabilize and destroy the US has never really been talked about, even though I think it's almost as undeniable.

@MistyCee And I doubt we're about to see today's GOP condemning Russian election interference which benefits them.

@Slade 'How much did your St Mueller prove that was of any use?'

Enough to indict 13 Russian nationals and three Russian companies on conspiracy charges.. The charges related to a Russian propaganda effort designed to interfere with the 2016 campaign. The companies involved are the Internet Research Agency, often described as a “Russian troll farm,” and two other companies that helped finance it. The Russian nationals indicted include 12 of the agency’s employees and its alleged financier, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

@RodionRomanovitch Damn good at indicting foreign nationals and parents protesting at school board meetings

@smiler2012 Here's what I told the other guy ;

The guy is the founder of the Wagner Group , now spearheading the Russian campaign in Ukraine. For years Putin had denied that Wagner had anything to do with the Russian State. Yesterday they opened a shiny new building in the heart of St.Petersburg.

Prigozhin had been highly critical of the Ukraine campaign and has criticised the military command. Now his forces are having the most success against the Ukranian counter offensive and he is being hailed as a saviour.

Some have interpreted his remarks today as a further burnishing of his credentials and a sign of his growing political influence within the Kremlin.

@RodionRomanovitch of course, seen this done to people before, if someone disagrees with someone, it just has to be that they can’t understand them. It’s the get out of jail card for any discussion because in any context you can just derail the exchange with ‘you just don’t understand’. Weird how there is no misunderstanding when they agree with you.

@pianoplayingsteve Ok , you don't understand the difference between an influencing campaign and actually hacking into voting machines to alter the outcome of an election. We'll just leave it there shall we.

@RodionRomanovitch if you still have that attitude, sure pal :)

@SW-User Not really, just bored with those who recycle the same crap like a broken record.

@Adrift 'those who recycle the same crap '

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