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Russian Hackers Targeted US Conservative Think-Tanks, Says Microsoft (reuters.com)
retroworks shares a report: Hackers linked to Russia's government tried to target the websites of two right-wing U.S. think-tanks, suggesting they were broadening their attacks in the build-up to November elections, Microsoft said. The software giant said it thwarted the attempts last week by taking control of sites that hackers had designed to mimic the pages of The International Republican Institute and The Hudson Institute. Users were redirected to fake addresses where they were asked to enter usernames and passwords. There was no immediate comment from Russian authorities, but the Kremlin was expected to address the report later on Tuesday. It has regularly dismissed accusations that it has used hackers to influence U.S. elections and political opinion. Casting such allegations as part of an anti-Russian campaign designed to justify new sanctions on Russia, it says it wants to improve not worsen ties with Washington. Further reading: Microsoft Reveals First Known Midterm Campaign Hacking Attempts, and Microsoft Launches Pilot Program To Provide Cybersecurity Protection To Political Campaigns and Election Authorities.
Oh boy, we hit Vatnik Retard Bingo! with all the Russian talking points in this one.
TDS happened. Trump won the election nearly 3:2 and it just broke the minds of the left. It's why you'll frequently see trolls talking about how President Trump is going to jail, despite the complete lack of evidence of any crime committed by him and his team. It's why you so frequently see these stories about how the Russians are "hacking our election" and then the details turn out that there's no real evidence tying the hack to the Russians (other than either IPs, which mean nothing, or "Cyrillic-looking characters" which is just hilarious) and that the things being hacked aren't in any way related to the election.
Unfortunately it's only going to get worse, especially after the left loses the midterm elections are nominating some of the least electable candidates I think I've ever seen. I wish I could tell you it'd just blow over, but it won't. The left has truly lost their mind and has become actively dangerous.
TDS happened. Trump won the election nearly 3:2 and it just broke the minds of the left.
I am truly astonished at how crazy the left has gotten. You can rack it up as trolling when the occasional AC posts crazy shit on Slashdot, but this is now mainstream. Celebrities, news sites, and papers have lost their damn mind. If anyone had dared to say things about Obama that the left says every day about Trump, the PC Police would have rounded them up and executed them in the town square ISIS style for their racism. I used to think it was sour grapes and fear, then political trolling. Now I think it's just plain insanity.
The same thing happened from 2000 to 2008.* If the DNC fails to rig an election, they and their supporters go into a total emotional breakdown until a new crop of voters comes in large enough (and raised on those rants) to vote the other way.
Then 4 to 8 years of some DNC approved president and some of those new voters realize they didn't get what they were promised and either abandon politics or try voting for some other party. Sometimes that other party is Republican.
*It was diminished slightly as the "anti-Shrub" fanatics split into two groups after September 2001. One doubled down on their attacks and accused Bush and Cheney of orchestrating the attacks of the 11th, the other concluded "someone has declared war on us, all of us, not just Republicans" and reacted accordingly.
Because this hacking attempt was aimed at Anti-Trump, Anti-Russia Republicans. I.e., not the ones the were working with in the last election. And even those are most likely wary of direct Russian contacts this time around, with Mueller still poking around in their garbage.
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