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Pretty Clear GRU's Goal Was To Weaken a Future Clinton Presidency, Former Facebook CSO Says (zdnet.com)

Speaking at the TechCrunch Disrupt tech conference this week, former Facebook chief security officer Alex Stamos reflected on his time dealing with fake news and Russian intelligence interference ahead and after the 2016 US presidential election. From a report: The former Facebook security head said "it [was] pretty clear the GRU's goal was to weaken a future Hillary presidency. Putin has a [you know, it's been well-documented] like a personal antipathy towards her and believes that she was behind the protests against him in the 2012 Russian election, and so, the GRU activity was specifically focused on weakening her."

"I think it was less about actually electing Trump," Stamos added. "I find it unlikely that the Russians are better than Nate Silver at predicting elections."
What kind of attacks could we expect in the near future? Per Stamos, "Throwing an election one way or another is going to be very difficult for a foreign adversary but throwing any election into chaos is totally doable right now."

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  1. Re:Read another way... by grep+-v+'.*'+* · · Score: 3, Funny

    they wanted known-to-be-corrupt, feckless person like Clinton

    Hey -- HEY!! Quit throwing around bad terms at people. You're going to taint feckless much worse than it really is.

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  2. Re: Read another way... by Dutch+Gun · · Score: 3, Funny

    Hillary was torpedoed by Comey.

    What, like with a submarine or something?

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