Re:The Perfect Weapon: How Russian Cyberpower Invaded the U.S
by coldtea on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @03:55AM
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>The U.S. has meddled in elections, but at the very least, the tactics here were new in their scale and effectiveness.
Compared e.g. to downright sponsoring and conspiring and successfully establishing a military dictatorship in my country (and tons of others)?
Or (for the "new" part) hacking and reading the mails of all world leaders, allies or not?
Hardly new and hardly major.
One is wrong: These attacks were not "obviously inconsequential", and the complaints of Russian hacking of the DNC are not "absurd".
Your second point ("the US does it too") is not wrong, but should not stop discussion of this particular attack. The U.S. has meddled in elections, but at the very least, the tactics here were new in their scale and effectiveness.