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Re:Russian Hackers Largely Skipped the Midterms, and No One ... by HappySweeney on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @10:47AM (#18441807)
Does a failure to influence the elections make their hacking ok?
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Re:Russian Hackers Largely Skipped the Midterms, and No One ... by ng12 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @11:22AM (#18442134)
Kind of, mostly because I don't trust the media to differentiate between rogue actors doing some port sniffing and targeted state-sponsored hacking.

For example, I'm fairly convinced most fake news is about making a quick buck, not about actually influencing the illection.

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Re:Russian Hackers Largely Skipped the Midterms, and No One ... by nbabitskiy on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @12:04PM (#18442564)
There is no doubt inside Russia, that e.g. DNC leak was a state-sponsored campaign, conducted by the guys in the same department that employed the Salisbury's killers (military intelligence). The fake news trolls all work for a private company, owned by a Putin's crony oligarch called Prigozhin, and we are way past adding "allegedly" at this point. Why are they too called "hackers" is a mistery.

How would you go about making a quick buck with fake news? Betting on Trump on the eve of the elections 4 to 1 (iirc) would be more of a gambling addiction than business plan.

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Re:Russian Hackers Largely Skipped the Midterms, and No One ... by ng12 on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @02:01PM (#18443748)
> https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/11/23/50...

This guy claimed he was making $10-$30k a month. There was another piece I can't find right now about a couple of college kids doing something similar. Fake news is wildly profitable.

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