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Re:Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, s... by krn on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @09:18AM (#17809257)
> I remember when Romney was running for president, he kept saying that Russia was a big threat, and that we were underestimating them.

That's why Russia didn't want Mitt Romney to become Trump's secretary of state:

"Weeks after Donald Trump was elected president, Russia-backed online “trolls” flooded social media to try to block Mitt Romney from securing a top job in the incoming administration, a Wall Street Journal analysis shows."[1]

"Putin’s former secretory, Igor Sechin counts Rex Tillerson, Donald Trump’s secretary of state, as a close personal friend, after the two men — during Tillerson’s time as Exxon Mobil CEO — struck a 2012 agreement that entailed investments by Exxon and Rosneft worth $500bn. When sanctions imposed on Sechin and Rosneft imperilled that deal and banned him from visiting the US, Russia’s response was to lament that he could no longer “ride the roads of the United States on motorcycles with Tillerson”."[2]

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/russian-trolls-tried-to-torpedo...

[2] https://www.ft.com/content/dc7d48f8-1c13-11e8-aaca-4574d7dab...

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Re:Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, s... by secfirstmd on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @11:00AM (#17810172)
On this topic, I really recommend the book by Ronan Farrow:

"War on Peace: The End of Diplomacy and the Decline of American Influence"

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Re:Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, s... by furgooswft13 on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @01:50PM (#17812003)
I mean I guess it's possible that a large number of Trump supporters on the Internet would be pretty incensed about the prospect of the literal embodiment of the GOP establishment and #NeverTrump being appointed Secretary of State, especially when Trump presented himself during the campaign as anti-interventionist. But nah, russian trolls.
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Re:Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, s... by TheForumTroll on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @11:50AM (#17810671)
"I know it is true because an American paper says Russian did X and Y".

I'm not saying it isn't, but WSJ and FT as sources? Really?

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Re:Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, s... by krn on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @12:50PM (#17811280)
If you want to understand how Russia works, there are plenty of international sources.

"How Russia won the World Cup" by the The Guardian[1] is a one of them.

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jun/14/how-russia-won-...

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Re:Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, s... by neonate on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @01:06AM (#17816451)
The Guardian is not a reliable source on this topic. For example, the ludicrous Luke Harding.
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Re:Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, s... by krn on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:30AM (#17817008)
The Guardian has published more facts about Russia's interference in Brexit and the US presidential election than probably any other newspaper in the world, and has been owned by a non-profit organization since 1936[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited

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Re:Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, s... by pc86 on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @11:58AM (#17810745)
I'm not sure what you want as sources if two well respected, global news publications don't make the cut.
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Re:Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, s... by dragonwriter on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @01:55PM (#17812053)
FT is not by any standard an American paper, unless the US annexed either the UK (where it is HQed) or Japan (where it's corporate parent is based) when I wasn't paying attention.
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Re:Russian hackers targeted U.S. conservative think-tanks, s... by fourpacalypse on Tuesday August 21, 2018 @11:58AM (#17810759)
Those are legit, fairly reliable news sources.
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