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US Cyber Command Operation Disrupted Internet Access of Russian Troll Factory on Day of 2018 Midterms: Report (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms, several U.S. officials said, a warning that the group's operations against the United States are not cost-free. The strike on the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, a company underwritten by an oligarch close to President VladiÂmir Putin, was part of the first offensive cyber campaign against Russia designed to thwart attempts to interfere with a U.S. election, the officials said. "They basically took the IRA offline," according to one individual familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified information. "They shut 'em down." The operation marked the first muscle-flexing by U.S. Cyber Command, with intelligence from the National Security Agency, under new authorities it was granted by President Trump and Congress last year to bolster offensive capabilities.
is in no part a "national security" or otherwise strategic resource.
A single place full of people's likes and dislikes, vacation schedules, who's in their circles of friends and famlies, what car they own, where they live.. pictures and vids of all of the above and more.... none of this is strategic?
It's very strategic, just not to the normal, well-adjusted human. But for thieves, conmen, and anyone interested in gathering intel on a target? Pricelessly strategic.
The "Civilized World" jumped the shark ca. 1973.
They are blocking memes from spreading on social media. This gives the moderators time to smoke weed and have sex in the hallways.
...but most of the damage is done in the weeks leading up to the election. Shutting them down on election day is too late.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
The Democrats have never been accused of outsourcing election fraud.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
I don't know why I bother, since you're clearly determined. Stop pushing political narratives. Hell, this would even be worth discussing if it weren't the thousandth article pushing "Russia hacked the elections". The ironic thing is your side has so thoroughly discredited itself that when you have real news that supports your cause it is going to be ignored. I don't even like Trump!
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
A bit more detail would be nice. Did they shut down the Internet on Russian territory? Probably not, that'd be some hot potato if they were found. If they blocked the IP on the US-side, there are plenty of proxies both in and out of the US to work through.
Either these trolls are very stupid and don't know anything about how the Internet works or this is just another story about how someone blocked an IP address and thinks they saved the world.
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You do realize that the vast majority of Facebook is fake-as-hell information
This is an example of Sturgeon's Law: 90% of everything is crap.
But that doesn't much diminish the value of the remaining 10%. Knowing everyone's friend graph is valuable information. Knowing everyone's interests is also valuable. Knowing who is easily influenced by the false information is very valuable.
Actually, if you look it up, the relevant excerpt is: [The Special Counsel is authorized to conduct an investigation into..]
So, yeah, whatever conspiracies the president and his team joined with Russia against the USA, fall under Mueller's authorization. And also, any other crimes that you uncover while taking to witnesses or seizing evidence, which have turned out to be many. So the president's crimes, his family's crimes and his campaign staff crimes are all fair game. Trump failed to compartmentalize his criminal enterprises. Even John Gotti was a smarter crook than this fuckwit. Trump needs to watch Kansas City Confidential and Reservoir Dogs, not just Sicario.
As you can see now, they're only interested in all the illegal acts. It was never about "collusion," since the investigations had already moved far beyond that, even before Mueller was appointed.
Apparently Mueller is one of those Republican cops, who all think that if you shoot your rifle at someone and miss, you'll still be charged with assault or attempted murder. The Democrats have totally failed to get through to him. All the fucker seems to care about is fighting crime.
(I think what's confusing you is that you've forgotten Trump's motive. Why did he conspire against America? The answer: he did it for the money. He did it to steal from America, and also to take bribes from foreign government to influence the Us government to do things for them instead of us, in any situations where our interests conflict with other countries'. He did it to help him commit further crimes against you and me. So nobody really cares whether or not Russia's help was effective. He conspired to attack America for profitable reasons, so he's going to eventually be prosecuted for the conspiracy.)
Yes. Even us non-Democrats agree to that. See item (b)(ii) and (c) above. Since so many of Trump's staff and family have committed other crimes in the attempt to cover up the conspiracy, and since they were so easily caught, they've given Mueller a gift to use, to roll them up. (Crooks don't usually make things this easy, but Mueller was fortunate to be charged with investigating some unusually stupid crooks.) The conspiracy with the Russians against America is Mueller's end game. Whether those charges will be the final charges he files, we don't know. But it's the main act, and everyone is looking forward to it. (The problem, of course, is that the president himself is one of the criminal conspirators, and sending presidents to prison is hard.)
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