Thanks. - you are probably right but it's still not that clear...the Feds were chasin something earlier...from the same Times article:
But in 2014 and 2015, a Russian hacking group began systematically targeting the State Department, the White House and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. “Each time, they eventually met with some form of success,” Michael Sulmeyer, a former cyberexpert for the secretary of defense, and Ben Buchanan, now both of the Harvard Cyber Security Project, wrote recently in a soon-to-be published paper for the Carnegie Endowment.
Harvard Cyber Security Project is a lefty place .
Why wouldn't the FBI be involved in that chase, especially on the WH ?
Interesting read here to include footnotes.
http://carnegieendowment.org/2016/12/13/russia-and-cyber-operations-challenges-and-opportunities-for-next-u.s.-administration-pub-66433
Even more so, just don't know what source to rely on anymore.
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you are probably right but it's still not that clear...the Feds were chasin something earlier... --
Agreed it isn't clear. I was just engaged in speculation, but know a bit about "hacking," data security and network security. Podesta gave up his password in a phishing scheme, and the article claims FBI was familiar with "the Dukes."
Thanks for the link to "Russia and Cyber Operations: Challenges ..." article. I note it does not even vaguely describe the entrance vectors, only the actions after the systems were compromised.
My little "nothing" network gets about 10,000 intrusion attempts a day, and other than e-mail, the open ports are non-standard and THOSE get thousands a day (of the roughly 10,000 total). Rough world out there.
Back on the subject of the organized efforts to derail the Trump campaign, continuing to this day ...
https://twitter.com/almostjingo/status/943350106153156610 <- Perkins Coie, Google, DNC, Crowdstrike, FusionGPS