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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 27 2019, @06:58PM (3 children)
Hey I was alarmed by what I saw and I wasn't even there when they ended up on the news. I knew something bad was going to happen.
Around 2014 - 2016 I was extremely alarmed to see what are more or less dog whistles for some extremely crazy stuff that your average liberal has barely even heard of.
Tbh I think these people were getting promoted by foreign interests. After the election there was no reason to give them money and people started to see some of these people's true colors and now they're ignored. I hope we continue to ignore them in the upcoming election so that we can get on with unfucking the country.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 27 2019, @10:12PM (2 children)
It is going on still, and it exists at two levels. I'm not saying there is any coordination between levels, just that both exist. You have west coast street-fighting antifa gaining power from Seattle to San Francisco and close to completely condoned in a place like Portland. At the "legit" level, you hear the same type intersectionalist claptrap from The Squad in Congress who to normal people sound like a broken record screaming "racist" but what you have to realize is that whiteness is akin to original sin (without the opportunity for redemption) and there is nothing a white person does which is not racist -- merely existing is racist. They aren't calling people racist ironically or out of calculation -- they believe it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 28 2019, @05:06PM
Seattle. No antifa is nothing here. I saw them before they were antifa. They were always skinny kids in dirty black sweatshirts. They'd commit minor property damage and they weren't ever good at it. The SPD has somehow convinced them to always freak out at "westlake park" where everything is made of concrete, plexiglass, and bronze... there hasn't been a single breakable thing since the WTO protests in 1999. They even publish their secret plans online... they are really bad at this and nothing to be scared of, they're getting less popular every day. They wear black so they police know who they are even before they start flipping out.
If you'd shit talked Sawant I would have nodded in agreement but compared to the disgusting shitstain subhuman trash we've had in congress a person like AoC is only an improvement. This should be obvious to you
If you don't want to puke after seeing trump and mcconnel then you're doing something wrong. Maybe you should get off facebook.
Can I ask why you're on soylent news and yet you live in Olympia? It seems like your average SN reader could be rich if they had access to this job market. Some of them might not like the more liberal attitude here but you're in Olympia which is even more liberal and undeniably even stupid sometimes.
Seems like a strange place to be when you could land a tech gig and even ride public transit to work while you figured out your transition. I really don't understand people who let money sit right in front of their faces and don't take it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 28 2019, @07:04PM
I'd like to add some more to this because I really do relate to your feelings. Running into SJWs or whatever you want to call them a few years before they appeared in the rest of the country was not cool and it was scary to see them popping up on the internet and getting on the news. A lot of people who may look and in some ways act like SJWs are not sjw's at all. They're mostly unaware of the nutballs, a lot of them are just venting on the internet too. I complain about boomers and sometimes I have to stop myself because I see that something I'm saying is going to sound pretty threatening to some perfectly fine boomers who aren't even the people I'm talking about.
You've considered that the russians were giving money to these assholes cash on patron. Remember they all had that shit and the worst ones all seemed to be getting a middle class salary for their area and then they all went broke after the election?
Nobody likes the people you don't like. They don't even like each other they're eating each other alive over stupid shit and it's often transparently vindictive. It's difficult for most super liberals to believe this shit even exists because they know they're considered pretty radical and they don't think that shit and they don't believe that any of their friends do either and that's why they're friends. At Evergreen you'll know it exists. There were tons of students there trying to get by and get an education. Many of them were even involved in whatever causes but most of us were irritated by the people there to skip school and "protest" in possibly the most liberal public university in the country.
I only half believed in all kinds of shit until I saw it with my own eyes.