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something I have never bought.

Hello, the evidence is right out there in the open.

The dutch were so deep in Cozy Bear's systems that they were running facial recognition on everybody coming and going into the building. Even william gibson thinks its exactly like a william gibson novel. The dutch were able to watch the DNC hacks from inside Cozy Bear in real time.

But wait, there's more...

Papadopoulos was speaking with people he believed to be working for the Russian MFA, according to his own plea deal.

But wait, there's more...

Carter Page is listed on a 2013 FBI affidavit against SVR officers as having been targeted by them, (he also confirmed this to HPSCI according to his own transcript)

But wait, there's more...

Don Jr in response to an email suggesting a russian government official wanted to give him dirt on Clinton "as part of the Russian government's support of your father", he writes "I love it" and invites Kushner and Manafort to that meeting. according to his own twitter post

But wait, there's more...

Mike Flynn talks to the Russian ambassador and then lies about it in an interview with the FBI where he was told lying was a felony. According to his own plea deal

We are a long way past 'there is no smoking gun'. If the existing 21 gun salute doesn't do it for you, nothing new will.

Good call. Now let's get to work on John Deere while you're in a giving mood.

There is nuance, the maximum prison term has increased but it doesn't mean you will get 10 years for watching your favorite TV series on a illegal streaming website. Judges are not complete morons, and when minor copyright cases go to judgment, the sentence typically ends up being a reasonable fine.

I believe the point isn't what should happen with these laws, it's what can.

Here in the US we have the DMCA, which was intended to keep people from copying movies. And is now currently being used by John Deere to keep anyone other than John Deere from fixing tractors.

You have to consider when you make a legal ruling that is broad exactly how it might be abused. If it is possible to get 10 years for watching TV illegally, you know that someone will get 10 years for it eventually. Judges are like any other group of people. Gather a few dozen together and it's a safe bet at least one will be an asshole.

Oh, they can do a lot more... https://securityledger.com/201...

Your link re-enforces the argument that you're responding to. They make it almost impossible to get warranty support.

Oh, they can do a lot more... https://securityledger.com/201...

No, you can not. https://securityledger.com/201...

And what about Tim DeChristopher's message about protecting the environment? Oh, the court explicitly banned any mention or consideration of his message or even motives. The system can declare open season on activists whenever it wants.

BTW, a party that will commit fraud in order to hoard money away from state/local campaigns into the hands of the already wealthy Clinton is no doubt interested in creating as much hysteria as possible to deflect attention.

Hacking voter registration systems is a serious issue for sure. For one thing, those systems should not be online. Another thing is that the Snowden leaks show the US routinely breaks into foreign municipal and university systems to steal their data. They even leak data for political impact. But no corp. infotainment brand in the US is going to make an issue out of it. Which is odd, because supposedly Americans would be the first people you would expect to be capable of stopping our government from doing this.

And lets not forget infotainment's penchant for labeling any activity by Russian or Chinese individuals as a government conspiracy against the West. They segue from intentionally vague language intended to erase any distinction, to more serious language calling for bombing campaigns. A similar tactic was used in the coverage over Iran's "nuclear program", an erasure of the nuclear power / nuclear weapons dichotomy they do not commit when discussing US programs.

As for Russian government involvement in the two voter db hacks: Contrasted with the DNC hack, it looks rather iffy. Did N. Korea's government commit the Sony hacks? Probably not, but interestingly enough we expect our government to keep blaming them anyway.

EVEN our NATO allies are not trusted... they are spied upon in minute detail. So the good will that had grown for a time between nations has been pissed away because of this paternalistic, power-mad attitude emanating from the US establishment (and assorted hangers-on in the other four of the Five Eyes). And please don't pretend that we didn't set the bar...or that it's not an important issue.

Likely Intended Targets: Government Officials and Executives in the U.S. and Europe

Now compare this to the executive summary at the start of the article:

In-brief: FireEye is warning about a sophisticated campaign of online surveillance that combines web “super cookies” and common analytics software to target individuals with links to international diplomacy, the Russian government and the energy sector.

Does this mean non-Russian entities who do business with Russian entities are the targets?

That was already 2014 news, it's just going to spread further in the new year.

As for instance this source.
I think it's very plausible.

Can anyone source that photograph of lightning during a thunderstorm that's used as part of the header in the FBI's alert? I would absolutely love to find out that it was snagged from somebody's Flickr etc. and the FBI is using it without permission. I'm not talented enough to try removing the text and running it through TinEye or similar.

Read to through third page and realize that the proposed solution is to build in an official end-of-life to the device such that when you buy it, you'll know to the day when it will expire (or at least disable its network functionality). I predict a large number of posters totally losing their shit over that.

But what you need to do is read the guy's actual presentation where he makes a very convincing argument that all the alternatives aren't sufficient.

https://securityledger.com/201...

What the (bleep) third pressure technologies are? (car analogies welcomed)

(don't blame the /. editors on this, one of TFA has used it