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UK Blames Russia For Cyber Attack, Says Won't Tolerate Disruption (reuters.com)
Britain blamed Russia on Thursday for a cyber-attack last year, publicly pointing the finger at Moscow for spreading a virus which disrupted companies across Europe including UK-based Reckitt Benckiser. From a report: Russia denied the accusation, saying it was part of "Russophobic" campaign it said was being waged by some Western countries. The so-called NotPetya attack in June started in Ukraine where it crippled government and business computers before spreading around the world, halting operations at ports, factories and offices. Britain's foreign ministry said the attack originated from the Russian military. "The decision to publicly attribute this incident underlines the fact that the UK and its allies will not tolerate malicious cyber activity," the ministry said in a statement. "The attack masqueraded as a criminal enterprise but its purpose was principally to disrupt," it said.
That'll teach them, if we just keep telling them we wont tolerate things enough maybe they'll just stop poisoning people in London with radioactive materials, and stop bringing down NHS systems and such.
We just need to keep up the pressure of telling them how much we wont tolerate it and then they'll stop.
That anyone in our own agencies could have created it with the footprint of any nation. And there is plenty of motivation for our own agencies to do it. In fact, it is part and parcel for something like the CIA to do.
So this is a finger pointing shit show leaving wondering who to trust here.
Yeah
Russia is doing this to plenty of countries, including the US. At least your country is led by people smart enough to say, "This isn't right." President Shithole actively invited them to mess with our elections.
I don't respond to AC's.
Are we now seeing why "The Boy who Cried Wolf" and "Chicken Little" fables were important to learn when you were a child?
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You wanted to blame Russia! Russia! Russia! just to undermine Trump
Thanks for the note, comrade. However, it would be more convincing if Trump himself wasn't constantly making false and pants-on-fire statements all the time.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
Does anyone else thing it's interesting that the first 10 comments regarding a story about Russia come from anon or high number registered users that cast doubt on the story and putting it in a Republicans versus Democrats light? I'm just saying, it seems like the kind of thing Russian agents might be vying for.
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
"the people" voted Brexit because they thought it would make the fucking brown people go away. They were asked a complicated question and responded with a fucking stupid answer. There never should have been a referendum, there's a parliament that takes care of governance, democratically elected, and populated by people who know what the EU actually is.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
It was Republicans who engaged Christopher Steele for a dossier on Trump. It appears that in actuality, you don't know what you're talking about. Shame.
I do not want your cheap brainburning drugs. They are useless for work. And I am a working man today.
Russia is unlikely to improve as long as Putin, the oligarchs and the mafias are in charge. No matter how much he hypes up external threats, the 70% of the population who aren't gullible understand that, as in the west, the system is stacked in favour of the elites but unlike the west, they're not allowed even to elect a totally unsuitable leader who promises to "drain the swamp".
When even the rule of law is at the whim of the state and they see that anyone who complains too much ends up without a job or in prison or dead, they have little choice but to acquiesce or participate in the endemic corruption.
In such an environment, any call to work together for the good of the country will be met with hollow laughter at best.
Even when Putin eventually goes, hoping for a new leader who can make an efficient functioning state out of the current mess seems to be wishful thinking.