It all seems to lead me to one thought, screw up and "good" relations we do have with Russia. Are you talking about the VPN thing where you can actually "appear" to be coming from another country, like they use in the illegal torrents @Ken Anderson I think it's called a VPN.
Yes, not VPN, necessarily, but the Opera browser used to have a thing that you could toggle so that it would show your connection as being from somewhere else, often from Russia, because Russian ISPs often sell some of their ISP numbers to be used as proxies. I'm sure they know this but they are counting on people accepting what they say without thinking it through.
Yes, and the "non-technically" inclined. Nothing wrong with not being into higher technology, but when it comes to something like this, it's smart to delve into it before you jump to the conclusions. Also, as far as I know, there is NO evidence on board so far. Only suspicions, which I know were part of the infantile barrage of unsubstantiated claims that the Trump Team cheated.
Obama's "legacy"will be that he could never disregard bad advice. He came out of this looking very foolish in the eyes of the world.
No doubt, there are Russians who are heavily involved in hacking and other Internet crimes. That wouldn't surprise me a bit but there is quite a lot of crime in Russia, as in the United States, that isn't necessarily state-sponsored. I think that may not be the case in China, as the Internet is pretty well locked down there, so I expect that most of the hacking and the DOS attacks coming from China are state-sponsored. I could be wrong about that too, but China is far more heavily involved than Russia is.
What makes me so mad is the fact that anything any other Country might be doing as far as "hacking" goes...is definitely being done by the United States to other Countries too. And Obama knows this and I'm sure has had his hand in most of it in one way or another where it concerns our Govenment doing the hacking.
REMEMBER WHEN BARACK OBAMA TRIED TO HACK ISRAELI ELECTIONS TO OUST PM BENJAMIN NETANYAHU? BY IWB · DECEMBER 21, 2016 by Geoffrey Grider BARACK OBAMA INFLUENCES ISRAELI ELECTIONS TO OUST PM NETANYAHU FROM OFFICE EDITOR’S NOTE: Barack Obama is filled with faux rage against Putin and the Russians for their role in “hacking” the 2016 presidential elections. I say it is false rage because it is extremely hypocritical. Back in 2015, Obama spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on sending subversive groups like One Voice to be “boots on the ground” in Israel to hack their free and fair election process in a lame attempt to oust Benjamin Netanyahu who was seeking reelection. Guess Barry is not happy when the “chickens come home to roost”, eh? https://investmentwatchblog.com/rem...aeli-elections-to-oust-pm-benjamin-netanyahu/
By the way, the hacking of the power grid also turned out to be fake news from the Washington Post. There was some code on a laptop in the power company, which was not connected to the grid for, but they think if may have been some residual code from a malware problem they had years ago, and there's no connection with the Russians. Of course, the facts haven't prevented the talking heads and the silly politicians from making constant references to the Russians hacking our power grid. Since it's a laptop, they could have picked it up anywhere, like while playing computer games online, accessing porn sites, or installing malware. A lot of that stuff does originate in Russia, but not the Russian government, and they are usually not targeting anyone in particular.