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Just so we're all clear on this: Russia hacked the French elections, US Republicans and Dems

JLV

just getting started

Seems to me we are still living in amateurish times.

What would it take for a nation state to completely cover its tracks?

- no "native language stuff" in code or comments

- offshore teams - base your dudes in, say, Malta or Cyprus, not Moscow. No IP geo tracks that way.

- encrypt comms to team and "need-to-know". Just like mushrooms goes the saying. Heck, don't comm via digital means at all.

- start from clean OS downloads from open source. Add malware from crims as needed

- use criminals rather than your cyber soldiers

- muddle up the money trail to your team.

If you add this, and other operational security I didn't think of, how could anyone truly know who's pulling the strings? Could say, Russia "frame" China vis a vis the West? How would we trust our own govs?

I don't see any great reason to doubt Russian involvement in this instance, but the scope for misdirection and possibly even false flag ops is getting bigger all the time.

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