Russian hackers probed election systems in all 50 states, a new Senate report confirmed Thursday.
The report comes one day after former special counsel Robert Mueller told Congress that the Russian government is working to meddle in U.S. elections "as we sit here."
"It wasn't a single attempt," Mueller said Wednesday of Russia's 2016 election interference. "They're doing it as we sit here. And they expect to do it during the next campaign."
The bipartisan report by the Senate Intelligence Committee released Thursday confirmed previous comments by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that Russian hackers scanned election systems in all 50 states ahead of the 2016 presidential election. DHS initially acknowledged Russian attempts to hack into election systems in just 21 states.
Russia targeted all 50 states in 2016 election hacking campaign, Senate report confirms
(Score: 4, Interesting) by ikanreed on Saturday July 27 2019, @04:23AM (1 child)
Well, that's a half truth. If propaganda didn't work, campaigns wouldn't spend a billion+ on it every election.
Besides, this article describes an attempt at hacking election infrastructure, which, to be honest, I had thought was overblown bullshit on centrist dem's part. It's not stated whether anything was actually compromised, but I would say, in context, your confidence is undue.
(Score: 4, Informative) by c0lo on Saturday July 27 2019, @12:17PM
US is the single country I know that legalized money as speech [wikipedia.org].
And it's getting even closer to unlimited money as speech [theatlantic.com] - coming to you through Alaska [adfmedia.org].
Next steps? Get rid of speech and keep only the money. With the immediate consequence of getting rid of the elections all together, 'cause they don't matter anymore but involve significant costs.
Rip what you sow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford