Foreign hackers attack Obama and McCain computers

newsweek.com

10 pointswayne3 comments

"Officials at the FBI and the White House told the Obama campaign that they believed a foreign entity or organization sought to gather information on the evolution of both camps' policy positions—information that might be useful in negotiations with a future administration."

Or you know these 'hackers' could have just watched CNN. For some reason this story seems pretty farfetched.

Well perhaps the article doesn't put it in quite the right way, but to put it another way: if you were Russian or Chinese intelligence and you had the opportunity to read, say, the Obama camp's internal memos, wouldn't you want to do so?

As an example, presumably Obama has various advisors on foreign policy, and they'll disagree. Some of them will advocate taking a harder line with (say) Russia, while others will advocate a softer line. If I were Russian intelligence I'd want to know who was who, so I could keep track of those advisors if and when they move into positions within the next administration.

Welcome to Spying 2.0

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