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Notpetya, Olympics hacking, Novichok probe meddling... America throws the book at six alleged Kremlin hackers

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Re: Hmmmm.

Isn't the guy making an actual serious point here. Israel and the US cooperated on Stuxnet for a serious and reasonably proportionate purpose of stopping the Iranian nuclear program. Or at least delayng it long enough to try and negotiate it away. The alternative option being allowing a nuclear Iran or bombing their nuclear program - neither of which are exactly peachy.

You might say this is wrong / illegal / stupid / whatever. But it's neither disproportionate nor trivial.

Here the allegation is that the Russian government, sulking after getting caught cheating massively at international sport, tried to sabotage the Olympics for no other purpose than childish spite.

GRU hackers were in fact caught by Dutch police war-driving outside the OPCW headquarters - trying to hack into the networks of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons. Despite the fact that Russia is a member of that organisation - and therefore gets the full reports and data that they publish. Which, while bad, is at least the sort of thing you expect to use spies for.

But that same team had also got info on their laptops that they'd got from war-driving outside a lab used by the World Anti-Doping Agency - so as well as the serious work of trying to cover up a Russian government use of chemical weapons - the same guys were also involved in trying to cover up that cheating at the Olympics. Which is trivial. In fact, downright fucking pathetic. So I don't think it's an unreasonable accusation.

When the NSA are caught trying to fix the Olympic basketball, you'll have a point.

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