I’m still scratching my head after having read this:
U.S. military hackers have penetrated Russia’s electric grid, telecommunications networks and the Kremlin’s command systems, making them vulnerable to attack by secret American cyber weapons should the U.S. deem it necessary, according to a senior intelligence official and top-secret documents reviewed by NBC News.
Essentially, the Americans just stated that they had committed an act of war against Russia. Sure enough, the Russians are asking them if they heard it well:
Russia expects Washington to provide an explanation after a report claimed that Pentagon cyber-offensive specialists have hacked into Russia’s power grids, telecommunications networks, and the Kremlin’s command systems for a possible sabotage.
One possible explanation is that’s all for domestic consumption, both the allegations that the Russians are interfering with their elections and the assurances that they have a response ready. Both claims might be completely false.
However. What the actual fuck? If they actually have something implanted in the Russian infrastructure, good fucking job telling the Russians so that they can fix it. But having in mind what a bad idea that would be, it probably means it’s all a bluff and they don’t have anything, in which case a) their ever declining credibility just hit rock bottom and b) the Russians were told that they are now fully justified in taking countermeasures against America.
So yeah. Those people have just enough more brain cells than chickens so that they don’t shit on the lawn uncontrollably.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Gold
Yes, a good example of a multiple-layered deception.
Doesn’t really make sense. Maybe its tactic of provocation so they hope to draw Russia to attack first.
No, it doesn’t make sense, because if the Russians were so trigger-happy, they would already have attacked ten times already. But since they haven’t, the Americans might be lulling themselves into some mistaken belief that the Russians will never attack no matter what crazy stunt they pull on them.
Decades of influence over the world politics have clouded judgement of the true rulers of USA (even and their puppet representatives). If they are going to make huge mistake, that time is now.
It’s just posturing.
Step 1: Accuse Russia of hacking the US in order to influence the elections.
Step 2: The previous step made Russia look superior in the cyber department and we can’t have any of that. Minor adjustment needed. Announce that we hacked all the Russian vital systems and that we have them by the balls.
When Russian private conversations supposedly get leaked it makes them look better 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJK00daiKD8
I agree it’s posturing, but what I get from it is that everything they do might also be posturing, or at least that they are mentally so detached from the concept of actual consequences of their actions, that absolutely everything they do is to be understood as part of the same circus. That’s actually the most scary part: that they are behaving like scatterbrained imbeciles wielding a big stick.
There’s another possible implication. Since spyware is a case where you lose the capability the instant it becomes known to the enemy (because they look for it and fix the problem), the fact that they talked about having it probably means that they don’t, and that’s especially likely since we know how the Russians are specialized in paranoid security.