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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumsif russians could hack the democratic NATIONAL committee computers, imagine....
how easily they could hack the LOCAL democratic committee computers.
the scope of this is mind-boggling.
this is really a cyber war.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)have had flaws for years, often nothing done. I don't see the US as very proactive except in arguing and fighting.
spanone
(135,914 posts)having russia as part of our election process may be what we need to move people.
RKP5637
(67,112 posts)do anything to help at all.
malthaussen
(17,219 posts)We Americans like to think we're the most computer-savvy people on the planet. That our computers could be so comprehensively hacked by a foreign power must really sting.
-- Mal
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)He even wrote a book about it.
https://www.amazon.com/Cyber-War-Threat-National-Security/dp/0061962244
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,260 posts)the ill gotten information. This leads me to believe that there was blackmail, threats, and deals made.
spanone
(135,914 posts)this should be 100% bi-partisan
although it will not be.
global1
(25,288 posts)I'm kind of blown away as to how suseptible we are to being hacked as a country. One would think that governmental computers would have all kinds of safeguards to prevent hacking - yet look what happened.
I hope we learn something from this incident and work on computer systems that make it extremely difficult if not impossible to hack.
In a computerized world that we all live in now - everyday the stakes are getting greater and greater because of this suseptibility.
Are our nuclear codes at risk?
Just think of the consequences of that - that a foreign power can hack in to our nuclear codes and start something that makes it look like we started ourselves.
For example: Why does a country like Iran need to develop nuclear weapons when they could maybe more easily hack into our computers and use our own weapons against us.
We need as a country to put as much money and effort as possible to protect ourselves from future hacking.
I hate this feeling of vulnerability.
Everyday our world is getting more dangerous and sinister because of computers.
I know I probably sound naive and I probably am about this - but the prospects of future hacking are pretty scary.
FarCenter
(19,429 posts)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podesta_emails
This is not about cyber war. This is about individuals giving up their credentials to a social engineering attack.
And why was Podesta sending and receiving sensitive emails through Google in the first place?
And why didn't he delete them as soon as he read them so that compromise of his account would only result in very limited damage?
Security requires people who are trustworthy, competent and diligent.