Russia Hackers Had Targets Worldwide, Beyond US Election (apnews.com)

Raphael Satter, Jeff Donn, and Justin Myers, reporting for Associated Press: The hackers who disrupted the U.S. presidential election had ambitions well beyond Hillary Clinton's campaign, targeting the emails of Ukrainian officers, Russian opposition figures, U.S. defense contractors and thousands of others of interest to the Kremlin, according to a previously unpublished digital hit list obtained by The Associated Press. The list provides the most detailed forensic evidence yet of the close alignment between the hackers and the Russian government, exposing an operation that stretched back years and tried to break into the inboxes of 4,700 Gmail users across the globe -- from the pope's representative in Kiev to the punk band Pussy Riot in Moscow. "It's a wish list of who you'd want to target to further Russian interests," said Keir Giles, director of the Conflict Studies Research Center in Cambridge, England, and one of five outside experts who reviewed the AP's findings. He said the data was "a master list of individuals whom Russia would like to spy on, embarrass, discredit or silence."

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Twitter is a greater threat than Russia

[Okian Warrior]

From Twitter's testimony before the Senate Judiciary committee (page 11):

With respect to #DNCLeak, approximately 23,000 users posted around 140,000 unique Tweets with that hashtag in the relevant period. Of those Tweets, roughly 2% were from potentially Russian-linked accounts. As noted above, our automated systems at the time detected, labeled, and hid just under half (48%) of all the original Tweets with #DNCLeak. Of the total Tweets with the hashtag, 0.84% were hidden and also originated from accounts that met at least one of the criteria for a Russian-linked account. Those Tweets received 0.21% of overall Tweet impressions.

It seems to me that Twitter is a much bigger threat to our election process than Russia.

Shouldn't speech about the election be somehow... I don't know... protected or something?

Re:Pure Treason

[Anonymous Coward]

^ This is the kind of idiocy that caused Hillary Clinton to lose.

But I suppose Democrats need their birther conspiracy theories too. I suspect they'll be a permanent fixture of US politics in the future after ever election.

Spain

[ISoldat53]

I wonder if what is happening in Spain was pushed along by Russia?

Re:First time an American President committed Trea

[Anonymous Coward]

Donald Trump magnified Russia's attack on America by publicly praising it,

Oh my, Trump made a sarcastic quip! Treason! That's why Hillary lost!

Joe McCarthy or Joan Baez

[Anonymous Coward]

Am I the only one that sees the irony with the loony left now aghast at Russian meddling when their earliest patrons were the USSR? The anti-Vietnam War movement in the US got a billion dollars from the commutards and by some estimates received better funding then the Russians were giving the North Vietnamese.

I'd like to see a true accounting of Soviet meddling in the US but going apoplectic while pretending this is something new smells like something that came out of a swamp or a bull's rear end.

Re:So she lost because, Russia?

[PoopJuggler]

So you voted for Trump because you believed he was not corrupt...

Re:So she lost because, Russia?

[will_die]

Or less so than Hillary.

There's been one big change

[rsilvergun]

in the past we didn't have a significant portion of the population willing to side with the Russians in order to achieve victory. 30 years ago just the allegations would have kept Trump (and Hilary) out of the Whitehouse. Folks were willing to ignore widespread election meddling just to get their man in office.

Re:There's been one big change

[farble1670]

Note: All of what I claimed has evidence to back up. You insinuations of Trump and Russia colluding doesn't have evidence. You are a complete moron for bringing up this topic to bash Trump, when it has now been proven Clinton is ACTUALLY guilty of it. But then again you have hit peak stupidity.

Hi Russian troll. It's not going to work. Our eyes are open now.

Re:They have done well

[coastwalker]

Red scare is when the right attacks the left accusing people of communist sympathies. The Soviet Union and communism failed so it is no longer possible to have a red scare, no one in the West believes in communism any more. Democratic socialism and varying degrees of state regulation yes but Soviet communism? no chance.

What we have here are hostile acts by Russian hackers aimed at destabilsing their enemies. And the United States continues to act as an enemy of Russia so you bastards deserved it. The destruction of the EU and Nato are also highly desireable given the EU power grab in Ukraine. The fact that the Russians have achieved this by hijacking the causes of sociopathic right wing hedge fund managers and the super rich is just the icing on the cake. They must be laughing their asses off at the stupidity of the Nationalist and Populists who are destroying America and the European Union.

No suprise that the rest of us look at you dumb traitors with disgust. No one cares that Hillary lost or that Brexit is happening, we care about the fact that these aims were achieved by dog whistle racism and pressing the fear of the foriegner button which has poisoned our nations with hatred. Western economic power depends on globalisation and immigration and emigration, at least outside Japan it does. The joke of it all is that by ending globalisation and immigration and emigration the biggest casualty is capitalism as it will lead to a global economic decline. Serves you cretins right.