[thoughtomator]

“according to officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity”

Fake news.

[Sasparilla]

SPECTRE and Blofeld are behind this.

[Robert DeLong]

Wait a minute. Why would Trump's Justice Department charge the Russian spies when he is known to be in bed with them?

Since this happened in 2014 does that mean that Obama's Administration were the ones really in cahoots with the Russians? 8>)

Is the Washington Post now throwing the Obama under the bus?

Yes, all sarcasm.

[Pollster1]

In other words, Russia hacked everyone they could. They hacked the DNC (although everyone hacked the democrats and the released emails were leaked by insiders, not hacked by outsiders). They hacked Hillary’s server (again, everyone hacked Hillary, and the released emails were leaked by insiders, not hacked by outsiders). They hacked Yahoo. They didn’t hack President Trump or the RNC because our side had security.

[Karl Spooner]

So far the WP is the only source that blames the Russians. Maybe they just made it up to get the attention off of Richard Maddow’s debacle last night?

[txhurl]

People also sometimes slip up and travel to a country that is able and willing to transfer them to the United States for prosecution.

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The author must have some specific people in mind to write this.

[browniexyz]

Anything yet on how the Middle Eastern fraternity of brothers hacking the Hill are to be punished?

or...crickets?

[The Toll]

And the charges against Chinese espionage can be expected when?

[McGruff]

... 500 million Yahoo user accounts ...

Why would the Russian government want that?

[MarkL]

Of course, the CIA has now lost plausible deniability given the recent WikiLeaks...

Mark

[minnesota_bound]

Yahoo email asks to use your contacts. I say no and I get spam at my other non yahoo email account that I have to filter. They have been hacked multiple times. The email and the rest of their site is terrible ever since Marissa Mayer took over and looted Yahoo.

[Cementjungle]

Russia has lots of pretty good hackers, but the fact that they’re Russian doesn’t necessarily mean they’re Russian “spies” or “officials”.... not every American criminal is an American “spy” or “official” (unless you’re a journalist with an Iranian/Russian/Chinese/etc. government news source).

[SgtHooper]

Sessions needs to get a handle on this real fast!

[Cementjungle]

In a new twist... "One of 2 Russians indicted is in custody in Russia accused of being a spy FOR the US"

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/14/politics/justice-yahoo-hack-russia/index.html?adkey=bn

[Grampa Dave]

So did the Russians hijack Yahoo or did the CIA do it and blame it on the Russians?

This tidbit below is buried in the Muscular writeup by Wikipedia.

Operational details:

According to the leaked document the NSA’s acquisitions directorate sends millions of records every day from internal Yahoo! and Google networks to data warehouses at the agency’s headquarters at Fort Meade, Maryland. The programme operates via an access point known as DS-200B, which is outside the United States, and it relies on an unnamed telecommunications operator to provide secret access for the NSA and the GCHQ.[3]

According to a post-it style note from the presentation, the exploitation relied on the fact that (at the time at least) data was transmitted unencrypted inside Google's private cloud, with "Google Front End Servers" stripping and respectively adding back SSL from/to external connections.

According to the Washington Post: "Two engineers with close ties to Google exploded in profanity when they saw the drawing." After the information about MUSCULAR was published by the press, Google announced that it was working on deploying encrypted communication between its datacenters.[2]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUSCULAR_(surveillance_program)