Re:Putin's DNC Hackers Actively Targeting French Elections
by dmix on Saturday January 14, 2017 @03:18AM
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Honest question: what is the greater cause of this situation we're now in: the five eye's obsession with all things offensive "cyber" over offering even the most primitive defense to industry or Russia ruining the fun by deciding to exploit this overtly rather than just for covert information gathering/polticial advantage like everyone else?
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Re:Putin's DNC Hackers Actively Targeting French Elections
by nl on Saturday January 14, 2017 @03:27AM
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Mostly neither (I wouldn't accept the premise of the question), but if one had to choose one I would say the second.
The Podesta hack was a social engineering phishing attack on his Gmail account. Gmail probably has the best security of any email hosting provider, and it's difficult to imagine what capacity any five eyes agency could have helped.