DNI report. It's the stuff on pages 5-6 that pisses off SHitler & GOPutin

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https://www.dni.gov/files/ODNI/documents/2019-ATA-SFR---SSCI.pdf

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Our adversaries and strategic competitors will increasingly use cyber capabilities—including cyber
espionage, attack, and influence—to seek political, economic, and military advantage over the United
States and its allies and partners. China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea increasingly use cyber
operations to threaten both minds and machines in an expanding number of ways—to steal
information, to influence our citizens, or to disrupt critical infrastructure.

At present, China and Russia pose the greatest espionage and cyber attack threats, but we anticipate that
all our adversaries and strategic competitors will increasingly build and integrate cyber espionage, attack,
and influence capabilities into their efforts to influence US policies and advance their own national security
interests. In the last decade, our adversaries and strategic competitors have developed and
experimented with a growing capability to shape and alter the information and systems on which we
rely. For years, they have conducted cyber espionage to collect intelligence and targeted our critical
infrastructure to hold it at risk. They are now becoming more adept at using social media to alter
how we think, behave, and decide. As we connect and integrate billions of new digital devices into
our lives and business processes, adversaries and strategic competitors almost certainly will gain
greater insight into and access to our protected information.

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Russia
We assess that Russia poses a cyber espionage, influence, and attack threat to the United States and our
allies. Moscow continues to be a highly capable and effective adversary, integrating cyber espionage,
attack, and influence operations to achieve its political and military objectives. Moscow is now
staging cyber attack assets to allow it to disrupt or damage US civilian and military infrastructure
during a crisis and poses a significant cyber influence threat—an issue discussed in the Online
Influence Operations and Election Interference section of this report.

Russian intelligence and security services will continue targeting US information systems, as
well as the networks of our NATO and Five Eyes partners, for technical information, military
plans, and insight into our governments’ policies.

 Russia has the ability to execute cyber attacks in the United States that generate localized,
temporary disruptive effects on critical infrastructure—such as disrupting an electrical
distribution network for at least a few hours—similar to those demonstrated in Ukraine in 2015
and 2016. Moscow is mapping our critical infrastructure with the long-term goal of being able
to cause substantial damage.

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1. thank you nt