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Re:As Democrats gather, allegations of Russian subplot raise... by mc32 on Monday July 25, 2016 @12:52AM (#12156534)
I imagine it's more politically motivated than "we don't want them to look like amateurs" but rather, look who is helping Trump, that bad Putin fellow. The unsaid part is, "we don't want someone Putin favors in the white house, make sure you vote for Clinton."

As others have pointed out, it's at least curious that when the Sony hack happened, and the administration came out a few weeks later and declared it was North Korea, lots of InfoSec stood up and said, wait, it's not that clear... We're not so sure... But here there is no such doubt, at least yet being raised --which is an interesting difference.

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Re:As Democrats gather, allegations of Russian subplot raise... by Lordarminius on Monday July 25, 2016 @02:05AM (#12156777)
> it's at least curious that when the Sony hack happened...

Not only the attribution is dubious. The whole thing stank down to the timing. My theory is that the Sony hack brouhaha was raised for the specific purpose of obscuring and deflecting attention from the Senate report on torture released on 9/12/2014.

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