How Russia Recruited Elite Hackers For Its Cyberwar (nypost.com)

Lasrick quotes a report from The New York Times (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternate source): For more than three years, rather than rely on military officers working out of isolated bunkers, Russian government recruiters have scouted a wide range of programmers, placing prominent ads on social media sites, offering jobs to college students and professional coders, and even speaking openly about looking in Russia's criminal underworld for potential talent. From the New York Post: "Russia's Defense Ministry bought advertising on Vkontakta, the country's most popular social media site, to lure those who were more talented with a keyboard than an AK-47 rifle. 'If you graduated from college, if you are a technical specialist, if you are ready to use your knowledge, we give you an opportunity,' the ad promised, according to the Times. The ad went on to assure recruits that they would be part of units called science squadrons based at military installations where they would live in 'comfortable accommodation' and showed an apartment outfitted with a washing machine, the Times reported. The Defense Ministry even dangled the chance to dodge Russia's mandatory draft by allowing university students to join a science squadron instead and then questioned them about their proficiency with programming languages, the report said."

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So this wasn't news when they hacked into CIA and the White House. But it's news when they broke into DNC? Because Democrats lost election on all fronts. White House, both houses of Congress, 39 governerships. Oh, and that "popular vote lead" that Hillary got was entirely from the People's Republic of California. She won popular vote by 2.5 million, but she won the vote in California by 4 million (so without California she lost the popular vote 1-1.5 million). And I don't anyone can suggest that California reflects the values or viewpoints of the rest of the United States enough to be the only state which decides its elections. Just to sum up... they recruited "spies" by advertising jobs for RF military technology personal on the Russian clone (and that's what it is) of Facebook? And they promised not conscript them into "mandatory" military service? RF's ability to force young people to actually comply with conscription laws has been so abysmal that its military can pretty much be called voluntary. The only people who go through the "conscription" are the ones who can't think of anything better to do with their lives. Seriously though... spies? These sound like government contractors doing infrastructure work more than spies. You just don't recruit for clandestine operations out in the open. It's official NYT and Washington Post have both joined the ranks of fake news. They are about a year or two away from reporting UFO sightings.