U.S. And U.K. Warn of Cybersecurity Threat from Russia
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#2Meanwhile, propaganda threat from US and UK governments remains high.
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#3They have wiretapped the entire world with PRISM and other similar secret programs. They have seized and vanished a countless number of people to black site secret prisons.
Who cares about Russia.
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#4I must say that by now, it is hard to tell what is the truth.
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#5Meanwhile, propaganda threat from US and UK governments remains high.
Even internally [1]
[1] http://foreignpolicy.com/2013/07/14/u-s-repeals-propaganda-b...
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#6I must say that by now, it is hard to tell what is the truth.
> by now
I don't think much has changed, it's just that we see a lot more diversity than 30 years ago. Having grown up in East Germany, if I hadn't lived close enough to the Western border I could only have viewed East German TV and read East German newspapers. In the US you were (for the most part) not exposed to anything from Russia, and vice versa. Now more people get to see that the world is quite a bit more colorful, for both better and worse.
I don't think it matters all that much, because apart from passive news consumption, what would you actually do (that is impacted by the information)?
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#7Fair game, IMO. Pretty sure Russia and the West are incompatible, at least for a long while. If you ask Russia they'll say that NATO violated the verbal agreement of not coming near Russia via membership, but NATO says that countries have the right to decide for themselves etc etc. Plus Russia is a shadow of USSR.
So it's a war, of sorts. Russia says that USA sponsors all these groups it determines to be anti-Russian and interferes in Russian elections, so it returns the favors with fake news /Trump election.
But in the end, Russia is bound to lose--again. Money talks and Russia doesn't have much, the richer world wants /needs to stay in good graces with the Western world. So we have sanctions, choose between Russians or USA+EU plus most of the world. This oligarch thing is kinda smart...if they hurt, they might try to take on Putin. There's a limit on how much a billionaire criminal who can't buy a villa in Spain anymore can take. But then, if they miss with the only bullet...
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#8I must say that by now, it is hard to tell what is the truth.
> by now I don't think much has changed, it's just that we see a lot more diversity than 30 years ago. Having grown up in East Germany, if I hadn't lived close enough to the Western border I could only have viewed East German TV and read East German newspapers. In the US you were (for the most part) not exposed to anything from Russia, and vice versa. Now more people get to see that the world is quite a bit more colo…
Not vote for Trump / Brexit / BoJo (heaven forbid)?
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#9They have wiretapped the entire world with PRISM and other similar secret programs. They have seized and vanished a countless number of people to black site secret prisons. Who cares about Russia.
А у вас негров линчуют (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes)
The bad actions of the US and their allies does not excuse the same actions of Russia (or China, or any other country).
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#10Should we declare an International Factory Reset Your Router Day?
Edit: I know this is not a permanent solution. But it could be effective if combined with efforts to study the propagation of attacks and with efforts to educate the public about properly securing their routers.