DONALD TRUMP may pretend to think that the hacking of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) e-mail system in July could have been carried out by a 400-pound nerd sitting on his bed; but on October 7th the director of national intelligence, James Clapper, and the Department of Homeland Security made official what had long been suspected. Their statement expressed confidence that the Russian government had “directed the recent compromises of e-mails from US persons and institutions, including from US political organisations”, and that the “thefts and disclosures” were “intended to interfere with the US election process”.
A well as the DNC attack, there have been a spate of others, all aimed at showing Hillary Clinton in a poor light, all distributed by either WikiLeaks or the lesser-known DC Leaks. The hacker groups behind the scams are fronts for Russia’s FSB and GRU spying agencies and, according to Mr Clapper, could have been authorised only by officials at the most senior level. But what to do about it?
Despite the seriousness of the charge (the hack by China’s PLA on US Steel, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary...Continue reading
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