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CitizenZero

(538 posts)
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 12:34 PM Apr 2017

In Regards To The Russian Cyber Attacks

A lot of these Russian Cyber Attacks seem to have been designed to divide Dems and cause hostility between Sanders and Clinton People. The Russian Hackers generated a bunch of bots to flood social media with harassing posts that pretended to come from Bernie Supporters, insulting Hillary Supporters. This was an attempt to divide the Dems and create hostility within the Party.

Now, every Democratic Politician and Candidate should have Counter-Intelligence and Cyber-Intelligence specialists on their Staffs to fight these sort of Hacks in the future. The DNC should have their own Cyber Teams to do Counter Ops against Russians. Also to oppose other Cyber forces (alt-Right, etc.) seeking to undermine our Party and our Political Processes. High profile Senators, Governors, and House Members should have co-ordinated Teams of Cyber Security Specialists. This is the new face of Cyber Warfare in the 21st Century.

As Dems, we need to unite and recognize that a lot of the bad blood stirred up between Sanders Folks and Clinton Supporters was artificial and arose from Russian bots creating artificial conflict. As Democrats and Americans, in and out of Government, we must build Teams and Resources specifically to Counter these sort of Political Cyber Operations. We need to build multiple Teams of Cyber Operatives to Counter these sort of Foreign and Domestic Hackers and get them out of our Media, Politics, and Government.

Sanders People, Hillary People, the DNC, and Others should unite in this, I think.

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