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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by ciarannolan on Monday October 19, 2020 @02:30PM (#24829345)
In the past they have texted specific GRU agents on their personal phones: https://www.wired.com/story/cyber-command-ira-strike-sends-s...

> As The New York Times reported last October, Cyber Command operators sent direct messages to individual Russian staffers that they had identified as involved in election interference, and were tracking their activity. The Post reports that the IRA was troubled enough by those messages that they launched an internal investigation to identify potential leakers.

I have a feeling that the US and allied countries are pretty deep into the Russians with this stuff.

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by FDSGSG on Monday October 19, 2020 @05:33PM (#24831266)
IRA is not GRU
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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by ciarannolan on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @01:40AM (#24834232)
lol.
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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by FDSGSG on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:48AM (#24836658)
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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by coolgeek on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @12:27PM (#24839295)
The difference between the government, the corporate sector (oligarchy) and the mafia in Russia is nominal. It's all the same people, operating out of different organizational fronts.

It's a super-organization that transcends what we think of elsewhere as being different sectors (of varying degrees of legality)

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by FDSGSG on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @04:13PM (#24841899)
There's a big difference between the GRU and the SVR and the FSB. There's an even bigger difference between GRU and the IRA.

These are completely different things, it's downright silly to imply otherwise.

IRA staffers certainly aren't "GRU agents"

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Re:Six GRU Officers Charged in Connection with Worldwide Dep... by coolgeek on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @10:06PM (#24844188)
I don't disagree with anything you say.

But nothing you say argues against what I said.

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