Tuesday, October 25, 2016

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Photo: Putin inspecting models of the new Russian Armed Forces uniforms. With Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. Source: Kremlin
Photo: Putin inspecting models of the new Russian Armed Forces uniforms. With Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov. Source: Kremlin
The U.S. finally is ramping up its response to Russian cyberattacks. Good.
The bad news is our response shows how ill thought-out both our strategy toward Russia and our policies for retaliating against malicious cyber operations are. (It’s interesting in a week full of Wikileaks, that Julian Assange is saying that the dump of emails causing so much harm to the Democrats is NOT a hostile nation attack from Russia. ~ Kelly)
Russia has been linked to many cyber incidents, most notably the hack of the Democratic National Committee and subsequent email leak that led to the resignation of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., as party chairman.
Vice President Joe Biden, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson, and other parts of the U.S. intelligence community now publicly blame Russia for these breaches.

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