God, that headline ("The Hackers Russia-Proofing Germany’s Elections"). Has it been ever conclusively proven that Russia hacked any election? Or is it just repeating unwarranted accusations in a form as if they were already facts?
http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/26/us/2016-presidential-campaign-...
The fact that Reality Leigh Winner is being charged with leaking classified information on the Russian government's phishing-attack on computers at an American voting machine company confirms that leak was valid. Then last week a DHS official said the Russian government was targeting voting systems in 21 states. And these two things happened just this month. The evidence has been mounting for over a year now.
The only people who don't believe it at this point usually have some motivation beyond honest inquiry.
Brooks' NY Times article from last week: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/20/opinion/russia-investigat...
Either you have faith in the law-enforcement machine, or you don't. Let them finish their investigation, publish a report, and then make your own conclusions.
(You know, kind of how it all went down with 9/11: same deal. No jumping to conclusions, kids ..)
Law enforcement has said Russia interfered [1]. The ODNI conducted an investigation and published its report [2]. Whether it flipped the outcome is difficult to determine, and in my view a wholly-separate issue.
[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_...
[2] https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/ICA_2017_01.pdf
EDIT: added link to report [2] from first paragraph of the Wikipedia article [1]
The ODNI conducted an investigation and published its report [1].
What do you consider a reasonable standard if the intel community saying their findings isn't it?
https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/publications/assessing-r...
"Election hacking" conjures images of manipulating voting machines, but what Russia did based on that link you provided was simply find unsavory things the DNC has done in order to bring negative PR to the party.
One other thing to consider: US elections are by definition secure from a wholesale hacking on account of the election being run on a patchwork of systems that differ from state to state (and sometimes county to county or even precinct to precinct). However, this same design and subsequent long list of vulnerabilities found in election machines and their software means that it would be possible to tip crucial precincts and districts in surgical, spear-phishing style attacks that may not attract all that much attention.
EDIT: Wow, quick to downvote. I thought we were in favor of waiting until the investigation concludes to say decisively whether or not collusion happened.
This included the Dem voter turnout model, "worth millions" according to Nevins.
Guccifer 2 forwarded Nevin's analysis to Trump associate Roger Stone.
Story at Wall Street Journal, May 25 2017. Short non pay wall version on Ars Technica.
I can dig up further info if anybody wants, but it shouldn't be too hard to find. This is the first report I came across:
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/voter-data-manipula...
Also see Russian activities in the Ukraine, Bulgaria, etc.
Really, you've never heard of social engineering/hacking? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_hacking