(December 31, 2016 at 9:15 am)paulpablo Wrote:(December 31, 2016 at 5:12 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Here is a news article which has evidence of why the US blames Russia for the hacks.
Basically its because the malicious software used is known to have been created by the Russian security service for this sort of thing.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38370630
I'm not a hacker so I wouldn't be expected to understand this sort of thing.
But I still don't understand how an election can be hacked.
According to this article the types of malware they found were what the Russian intelligence use, and they're used to gain intelligence. Steal data and release data.
It's being called an election hack but it looks to me like the specific organization being hacked is the Democratic National Committee. To steal and release data.
The phrase election hack doesn't make much sense to me unless it is the case that Russians are directly changing the vote counts of the election in some way.
If what's happening is one side has been hacked and their information has been used to change voters mind or create stories in some way then I still find it an odd phrase to use for what's happening.
What it is is intereference by a foreign power in a successful bid to change the result of the US election. The "hack" was used influence the public.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
