FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems

Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems by DigitalJack on Monday August 29, 2016 @03:52PM (#12384735)

For a succesful coup, you have to do a few things very quickly (hours),

  *Take over the media (simply not possible in America 
   due to the volume), initially to block 
   information 

  *Take over the Military (Too large and diverse 
   to accomplish in America.)

  *Arrest/Detain all political opposition.  
   (there are simply too many local governments 
   in America for this to happen.)

You have hours to accomplish all of this. If you can't manage it in hours, you will have an uprising and if you aren't quickly put down, you are in for a civil war.

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Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems by r00fus on Monday August 29, 2016 @05:18PM (#12385430)

Why would you even need #3? You simply make them persona-non-grata, or make them believe they are the bad guys (and hey, bad guys always complain about being bad guys!)

#1 is entirely feasible. #2 is entirely possible as well - there are lots of revolving doors with defense contractors and the DoD... heck, just read through the Patraeus scandal [1]. This a 4-star General (Commander of CentCom), Director of CIA and was a likely presidential candidate - just read through the tawdry and incestuous relationships within the community, and wonder at how easy it'd be to simply bribe everyone with an offer they couldn't resist.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal

I posit this can be planned indefinitely. Once the hammer drops, yes countdown time is hours, but... take a look at the 2000 election results and the weeks it took to finally stop the clock on vote counting.

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Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems by DigitalJack on Monday August 29, 2016 @05:44PM (#12385636)

2 & 3 are why the coup in turkey failed.

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Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems by r00fus on Tuesday August 30, 2016 @11:00AM (#12390731)

Because the coup in turkey and foreign hacking of elections is so analogous...

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Re:FBI says foreign hackers penetrated state election systems by xj9 on Friday September 02, 2016 @08:27PM (#12417124)

There are only six[1] media corporations in the US.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concentration_of_media_ownersh...

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