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Gothmog

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Fri Oct 7, 2016, 04:16 PM Oct 2016

U.S. Gov’t Officially Accuses Russia of Hacking to Influence U.S. Election...

According to US intelligence sources, Russia trying to influence or change the US election http://electionlawblog.org/?p=87295

Statement from DHS and ODNI:

The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC) is confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organizations. The recent disclosures of alleged hacked e-mails on sites like DCLeaks.com and WikiLeaks and by the Guccifer 2.0 online persona are consistent with the methods and motivations of Russian-directed efforts. These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process. Such activity is not new to Moscow—the Russians have used similar tactics and techniques across Europe and Eurasia, for example, to influence public opinion there. We believe, based on the scope and sensitivity of these efforts, that only Russia’s senior-most officials could have authorized these activities.

Some states have also recently seen scanning and probing of their election-related systems, which in most cases originated from servers operated by a Russian company. However, we are not now in a position to attribute this activity to the Russian Government. The USIC and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) assess that it would be extremely difficult for someone, including a nation-state actor, to alter actual ballot counts or election results by cyber attack or intrusion. This assessment is based on the decentralized nature of our election system in this country and the number of protections state and local election officials have in place. States ensure that voting machines are not connected to the Internet, and there are numerous checks and balances as well as extensive oversight at multiple levels built into our election process.

Nevertheless, DHS continues to urge state and local election officials to be vigilant and seek cybersecurity assistance from DHS. A number of states have already done so. DHS is providing several services to state and local election officials to assist in their cybersecurity. These services include cyber “hygiene” scans of Internet-facing systems, risk and vulnerability assessments, information sharing about cyber incidents, and best practices for securing voter registration databases and addressing potential cyber threats. DHS has convened an Election Infrastructure Cybersecurity Working Group with experts across all levels of government to raise awareness of cybersecurity risks potentially affecting election infrastructure and the elections process. Secretary Johnson and DHS officials are working directly with the National Association of Secretaries of State to offer assistance, share information, and provide additional resources to state and local officials.

Putin hates or fears Hillary Clinton and Putin wants Trump to be POTUS
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U.S. Gov’t Officially Accuses Russia of Hacking to Influence U.S. Election... (Original Post) Gothmog Oct 2016 OP
With Trump Putin will have his puppet in place. Hillary is smarter than Putin Thinkingabout Oct 2016 #1
U.S. government officially accuses Russia of hacking campaign to interfere with elections Gothmog Oct 2016 #2
From the Clinton campaign Gothmog Oct 2016 #3

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. With Trump Putin will have his puppet in place. Hillary is smarter than Putin
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 04:58 PM
Oct 2016

And he cannot control her. We may be surprised at the dealings Trump has with Russia, Manafort did not think his activity was going to be revealed. It was in their plan.

Gothmog

(144,005 posts)
2. U.S. government officially accuses Russia of hacking campaign to interfere with elections
Fri Oct 7, 2016, 05:57 PM
Oct 2016

This is serious. Russia and Putin are trying to fix the US elections https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-government-officially-accuses-russia-of-hacking-campaign-to-influence-elections/2016/10/07/4e0b9654-8cbf-11e6-875e-2c1bfe943b66_story.html

The Obama administration on Friday officially accused Russia of attempting to interfere in the 2016 elections, including by hacking the computers of the Democratic National Committee and other political organizations.

The denunciation, made by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Department of Homeland Security, came as pressure was growing from within the administration and some lawmakers to hold Moscow accountable for a set of actions apparently aimed at sowing discord around the election.

“The U.S. intelligence community is confident that the Russian government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations,” said a joint statement from the two agencies. “These thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the US election process.”

The DNC publicly disclosed the intrusions in June, saying its investigation determined that Russian government hackers were behind the breach. That was followed shortly after by a major leak of DNC emails, some so embarrassing that they forced the resignation of the DNC chairwoman, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), on the eve of the Democratic National Convention.

The administration also blamed Moscow for the hack of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and the subsequent leak of private email addresses and cellphone numbers of Democratic lawmakers.

Putin is scared of Hillary Clinton and wants Trump to POTUS
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