And Other Big Questions. This article in The Atlantic, dated Jan. 6, after a “declassified version of a highly classified assessment” was released, where the U.S. intelligence community laid out its judgment that “Vladimir Putin ordered an influence campaign in 2016 aimed at the US presidential election,” with the specific goal of harming Hillary Clinton’s “electability and potential presidency.” The report went on: “We further assess Putin and the Russian Government developed a clear preference for President-elect Trump.”
Who else has been hacked?
According to the article, Thomas Rid, writing in Esquire in October, noted that Russia began hacking the U.S. as early as 1996, five years after the demise of the Soviet Union, and added that the DNC hack concealed an even bigger prize for the Russians: the National Security Agency, whose secret files were dumped this August on Github and other file-sharing sites.
Then there is Germany. In May, BfV, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency, said hackers linked to the Russian government had targeted Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union party, as well as German state computers. Read the article for more details.
John Oliver posted about this at length recently, and the question of whether Putin directed Russian hacking is a topic that one student is posing for her tech briefing. I post it here for your viewing pleasure.
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