Re:Kaspersky Lab software may be a threat to national security
by smsm42 on Wednesday September 06, 2017 @03:19AM
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Any accusation is "not yet proven". There can be only two states of any accusation: "not yet proven" and "proven". The one about hacking the election has never been the latter, and never will be. I think there's a time where you have to give up on "not yet" and accept the reality. For some people it takes years or decades or never, of course.
> there are a remarkable number of people around Trump with ties to shady Russian businessmen
There are remarkable number of people around anything in US politics with "ties to shady Russian businessmen". Ever heard, for example, of Podesta Group? Google who they are and who were among their clients. Check out who of the former presidents spoke at Russian Renaissance Capital bank for $500K. Hint: his initials are WJC.
The reason is simple - Russian oligarchy has tons of money and interests in the USA. So there would be a lot of people willing to take that money and be around people with influence to prove that they deserve that money.
That, however, has zero relation to "not yet proven" claim that somebody "hacked election". Because it... Did. Not. Happen.
> It may not have been a direct hack of the election either, more the use of Russian intelligence bot operations running an extremely effective social media campaign.
In other words, not a hack at all. Otherwise any troll band from 4chan is "hacking elections".
> there are a remarkable number of people around Trump with ties to shady Russian businessmen
There are remarkable number of people around anything in US politics with "ties to shady Russian businessmen". Ever heard, for example, of Podesta Group? Google who they are and who were among their clients. Check out who of the former presidents spoke at Russian Renaissance Capital bank for $500K. Hint: his initials are WJC.
The reason is simple - Russian oligarchy has tons of money and interests in the USA. So there would be a lot of people willing to take that money and be around people with influence to prove that they deserve that money.
That, however, has zero relation to "not yet proven" claim that somebody "hacked election". Because it... Did. Not. Happen.
> It may not have been a direct hack of the election either, more the use of Russian intelligence bot operations running an extremely effective social media campaign.
In other words, not a hack at all. Otherwise any troll band from 4chan is "hacking elections".