Little Bears in Medical Records

I had a little trouble trying to figure out why a group of Russian hackers would care about the medical records of people who go through the World Anit-Doping Agency.  There is really no comparison to what might have happened in the administation of the various exceptions to drug policies that come from living every day with some illness and the outright manipulation of urine samples by Russian labs during the Olympics.  They are trying hard to make a connection, even making an inference that all the athletes take some drugs under controlled circumstances, but very few people in the world are buying the argument.

This kind of smacks of totally underestimating the intelligence of people.  Even if you just glance at the headlines, you can tell the difference between state-sponsored mainpulation and prescribed medications of a person with ADHD.  But, they are going to play this up and move on to other records they have stolen or new subjects that might attribute more abuses to other types of athletes, until people stop listening and reading.  This is, after all, just information war. They pledged their allegiance to Anonymous but not even that group likes playing on the edges this kind of war.  They know what can happen.

I'm sure the little bears know what an interesting game this is.  The world's governments quickly get tired of it and, as David Sanger said in his New York Times article on the response to North Korea in Sony, they respond in kind.  In that article, he says the U.S. actually considered a strategy to get around China's Great Firewall so information could flow freely.  The Russians have a lot more to hide than the manipulation of lab results during the Olympics.