We have the first documented case of Russian hacking in the 2018 election

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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/26/17619818/russia-claire-mccaskill-2018-midterm-hack

Russia is already trying to hack the 2018 midterm elections, going after Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO), one of the most vulnerable Senate Democrats up for reelection this year.





What’s more, the report comes two days after President Trump said Russians would likely be “pushing very hard for the Democrats” in 2018. Not only does this appear to be false — according to the Daily Beast, Russia is already working to help Republicans — but in fact, they’re getting involved in a smartly targeted race, one tight enough that it could end up mattering to the outcome.

This is an extremely big deal. Microsoft had already announced that Russian hackers had gone after “three candidates” in the 2018 election, but hadn’t revealed who they were. Identifying McCaskill specifically as a target is incredibly revealing: She’s only up on her Republican opponent by one point in the RealClearPolitics average. If Democrats lose her seat, they face a very tough road to win back the Senate in November. Helping Republicans defeat McCaskill (or another Democratic senator in a Trump-voting state) would be perhaps the single biggest boost that Russia could give to the GOP — and, by extension, to President Trump.
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Yes, Trump having a dog and pony show on election security today looks extremely poor as does his claim of Russia favoring Democrats because he's been so tough on his BFF.
 
Zorba

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All Dems should be moving to two factor authentication and automatic link disabling and maybe banning HTML emails or at least look HTML links.
 
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soundforbjt

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Zorba said:
All Dems should be moving to two factor authentication and automatic link disabling and maybe banning HTML emails or at least look HTML links.
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Change their password to WeR4Trump, they'd never guess that one. ;)
 
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We have evidence that somebody (Fancy Bear) was trying to get a password from one of Sen. Claire McCaskill's aides, but how do we leap to the conclusion that this is election hacking? Trying to obtain such access would be 'normal' spying. I.e. an attempt to gather classified info that passes around the capital.

Fern
 
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Fern said:
We have evidence that somebody (Fancy Bear) was trying to get a password from one of Sen. Claire McCaskill's aides, but how do we leap to the conclusion that this is election hacking? Trying to obtain such access would be 'normal' spying. I.e. an attempt to gather classified info that passes around the capital.

Fern
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Yes, technically the case is circumstantial, but it's a compelling case nonetheless. Fancy Bear, the same GRU unit which was responsible for the 2016 election hacking with the end purpose of helping republicans, now tries to hack into the system of a 1) democrat, 2) who is one of only a tiny handful of dem Senators considered vulnerable in this election cycle, and 3) just 4 months before elections.

At this point, I think our assumptions are pretty safe.
 
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Fern said:
We have evidence that somebody (Fancy Bear) was trying to get a password from one of Sen. Claire McCaskill's aides, but how do we leap to the conclusion that this is election hacking? Trying to obtain such access would be 'normal' spying. I.e. an attempt to gather classified info that passes around the capital.

Fern
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Have you forgotten what happened when the Russians hacked the DNC & John Podesta?
 
cytg111

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Fern said:
We have evidence that somebody (Fancy Bear) was trying to get a password from one of Sen. Claire McCaskill's aides, but how do we leap to the conclusion that this is election hacking? Trying to obtain such access would be 'normal' spying. I.e. an attempt to gather classified info that passes around the capital.

Fern
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What else do you propose it is? And are you going with best case scenario or the "shit that they allready did once" scenario?
If a convicted pedo is seen hanging around a kindergarden what are you going to assume?
 
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Fern said:
We have evidence that somebody (Fancy Bear) was trying to get a password from one of Sen. Claire McCaskill's aides, but how do we leap to the conclusion that this is election hacking? Trying to obtain such access would be 'normal' spying. I.e. an attempt to gather classified info that passes around the capital.

Fern
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K, if you don't want to believe that, how about giving the states the money to implement better security? Why is the GOP
stopping this?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...6e88ae760d8_story.html?utm_term=.05c6151df2fc
 
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Why? Because big military & tax cuts for the Rich are their only priorities. Well, and cutting social spending necessitated by tax cuts for the Rich.
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I think you're behind the times. Their priority now is taking Russian dick. We're finding out Turmp isn't the only one eager to bend over for Putin's brand of democracy. That is above everything now, including the NRA (considering that they were all googly eyed at the Russian agent using the NRA as the means to access them), American military might (seriously, they seem fine with Turmp sabotaging our military alliances, I'm not sure how they think that makes our military stronger), and even tax cuts (their trade wars are going to cost companies and wealthy people lots of profits).
 
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darkswordsman17 said:
I think you're behind the times. Their priority now is taking Russian dick. We're finding out Turmp isn't the only one eager to bend over for Putin's brand of democracy. That is above everything now, including the NRA (considering that they were all googly eyed at the Russian agent using the NRA as the means to access them), American military might (seriously, they seem fine with Turmp sabotaging our military alliances, I'm not sure how they think that makes our military stronger), and even tax cuts (their trade wars are going to cost companies and wealthy people lots of profits).
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Lootocrats all want the same thing- to rule at the highest level. The Russian state is exactly that. The GOP is working on it.
 
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Fern said:
We have evidence that somebody (Fancy Bear) was trying to get a password from one of Sen. Claire McCaskill's aides, but how do we leap to the conclusion that this is election hacking? Trying to obtain such access would be 'normal' spying. I.e. an attempt to gather classified info that passes around the capital.

Fern
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Really? This is the best you could come up with?
 
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