Obama Strikes Back at Russia for Election Hacking

Re:Obama Strikes Back at Russia for Election Hacking by rqebmm on Thursday December 29, 2016 @05:31PM (#13280760)

1) The Obama administration has said that retaliation will be in some part covert, so there's strong reasons to believe the publicized reaction is only the tip of the iceberg

2) If Russia hacked US elections in a material way (i.e. stuffing electronic ballots), we probably wouldn't know anyway. President Trump is much better for the United States than acknowledging that Russia can elect whoever they want.

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Re:Obama Strikes Back at Russia for Election Hacking by chipperyman573 on Thursday December 29, 2016 @06:34PM (#13281178)

What do you mean by the second point? I am confused about

>President Trump is much better for the United States than acknowledging that Russia can elect whoever they want.

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Re:Obama Strikes Back at Russia for Election Hacking by rqebmm on Thursday December 29, 2016 @06:39PM (#13281211)

Let's say Obama has airtight proof that Putin single-handedly elected Trump. What would be more damaging to the US: publicly admitting that foreign states have control of our elections (which could very reasonably start a large-scale revolt), or allowing it to happen while secrectly taking actions to prevent that from happening again?

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Re:Obama Strikes Back at Russia for Election Hacking by UweSchmidt on Thursday December 29, 2016 @06:54PM (#13281315)

But now that everyone talks about it, work should be done on the internal aspect on this: Investigation on voting mechanisms, coming up with a way to make this integral part of democracy safe. You could say "No, Russia didn't do anything, but while we're at it we have noticed some potential weaknesses in our infrastructure".

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