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Re:In Election Hacking, Julian Assange’s Years-Old Vision Be... by 3131s on Monday January 09, 2017 @11:02AM (#13357259)
The person who is the subject of this article claims that it was not a hack at all though, but instead a leak. That seems like something significant that the NYTimes should at least mention.
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Re:In Election Hacking, Julian Assange’s Years-Old Vision Be... by Bartweiss on Monday January 09, 2017 @11:48AM (#13357647)
This feels a lot like equivocating between "site X hacked" and "site X DDOS'd", except on a more urgent topic. There's a lot of FUD achieved by failing to clarify when digital attacks are known-and-inescapable risks (leaks, legal harassment, site takedowns) and when they're actual system-level attacks.
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