06-07-2017, 10:52 AM
(06-06-2017, 03:32 PM)Odin Wrote: Leaked Top-Secret NSA Report Details Russian Hacking Effort Days Before 2016 Election.
The Russians had access to voter registration roles. This is fucking terrifying.
I live in Michigan, and the Democrats found that their voter lists were so hacked -- indeed hijacked -- that Democrats were urging Republicans to go out and vote based upon the call lists that they had. I participated in some of this calling and even I was transformed into an unwitting participant in the election of the disaster that we now have as President.
I wonder if any very partisan Democrats in such states as Wisconsin and Pennsylvania found much the same thing.
Interference in the electoral process by a foreign power is an act of subversion. Americans who receive such aid in the knowledge that they are getting such aid are traitors in the same sense that the Rosenberg/Greenglass spy ring, John Walker, Aldrich Ames, and Robert Hanssen were traitors.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.