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Entire US political system ‘under attack’ by Russian hacking, experts warn
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 70910628:MV8zMzIzMjc0XzU5Mzc2MDcxX0U2NDM3RDk2] an "expert" shill on the gubment payroll trying to do a little election influencing of their own says Russia did it...tomorrow will say trump did it..if only the so called authorities would actually do something about the crimes revealed instead of sniveling about the leaks themselves.....shows how hypocritical they are...on hand they do nothing when crimes of their own are revealed on the other they demand all americans submit to being snooped on and hacked in the pursuit of terrorists...everything that every so called authority says and does is criminal hypocritical or a lie ..fuck them all they are worthless and always have been...media too [/quote]
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It could have been a cold war drama. The world watched this week as accusations and counter-accusations were thrown by the American and Russian governments about documents stolen during a hack of the Democratic National Committee and the email account of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair John Podesta.
The notion that public figures have any right to privacy appears to have been lost in the furore surrounding the story, stolen correspondence being bandied around in attempts to influence the outcome of one of the nastiest, most vitriolic US presidential campaigns in history.
Some have argued that as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton’s emails were fair game for hacking because had they not been held on a private server, they would have been subject to freedom of information requests and available to the general public.
There may be some truth to that, but it doesn’t change the fact that correspondence between public figures has allegedly been hacked by those acting under the direction of a foreign government and released for everyone to peruse, with little opportunity for the authors to offer context or even confirm that the contents of the leaks are accurate.
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