if russians could hack the democratic NATIONAL committee computers, imagine....

[spanone]

how easily they could hack the LOCAL democratic committee computers.

the scope of this is mind-boggling.

this is really a cyber war.

[RKP5637]

1. The question is, as usual, will Americans really do anything about it. Voting machines, for example

have had flaws for years, often nothing done. I don't see the US as very proactive except in arguing and fighting.

[spanone]

4. my hope is that something like this will give us the impetus to change things.

having russia as part of our election process may be what we need to move people.

[RKP5637]

6. I would hope so. I'm sure many want to do something, but I don't think the Trump Regime will

do anything to help at all.

[malthaussen]

2. I wonder how much the screams of outrage are from amour-propre.

We Americans like to think we're the most computer-savvy people on the planet. That our computers could be so comprehensively hacked by a foreign power must really sting.

-- Mal

[KewlKat]

3. interferring with our election WAS and IS an act of war!

[KittyWampus]

5. It really is a cyber war. And Richard Clarke had his hair on fire about it over 10 years ago...

He even wrote a book about it.

https://www.amazon.com/Cyber-War-Threat-National-Security/dp/0061962244

[AnotherMother4Peace]

7. Almost as frightening is that Russia hacked the RNC computers & did not release

the ill gotten information. This leads me to believe that there was blackmail, threats, and deals made.

[spanone]

9. that's why the gop should be as outraged about this....next time it very well could be them

this should be 100% bi-partisan

although it will not be.

[global1]

8. I Don't Know Much About How Easy It Is To Hack - But....

I'm kind of blown away as to how suseptible we are to being hacked as a country. One would think that governmental computers would have all kinds of safeguards to prevent hacking - yet look what happened.

I hope we learn something from this incident and work on computer systems that make it extremely difficult if not impossible to hack.

In a computerized world that we all live in now - everyday the stakes are getting greater and greater because of this suseptibility.

Are our nuclear codes at risk?

Just think of the consequences of that - that a foreign power can hack in to our nuclear codes and start something that makes it look like we started ourselves.

For example: Why does a country like Iran need to develop nuclear weapons when they could maybe more easily hack into our computers and use our own weapons against us.

We need as a country to put as much money and effort as possible to protect ourselves from future hacking.

I hate this feeling of vulnerability.

Everyday our world is getting more dangerous and sinister because of computers.

I know I probably sound naive and I probably am about this - but the prospects of future hacking are pretty scary.

[FarCenter]

10. "Hack" has become a meaningless term - Podesta, for example, was "spear-phished" - very low-tech.

SecureWorks concluded Fancy Bear had sent Podesta an email on 19 March 2016 that had the appearance of a Google security alert, but actually contained a misleading link—a strategy known as spear-phishing. (This tactic has also been used by hackers to break into the accounts of other notable persons, such as Colin Powell). The link—which used Bitly, a URL shortening service—brought Podesta to a fake log-in page where he entered his Gmail credentials.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Podesta_emails

This is not about cyber war. This is about individuals giving up their credentials to a social engineering attack.

And why was Podesta sending and receiving sensitive emails through Google in the first place?

And why didn't he delete them as soon as he read them so that compromise of his account would only result in very limited damage?

Security requires people who are trustworthy, competent and diligent.