Well, if the Russians are nothing else, they are consistent. This story by Reuters, which almost all the other news services ignored, says the target was the website which showed the summary results of the parliamentary election. This is similar to what they did in the Ukraine when they tried to keep the votes from being tabulated. In both cases, the only thing affected is a delay in the results being posted. So, if you can’t get to the election system, you could delay the results. I’m not saying this has any useful purpose except to let the populations know that they are messing with election tablulation. Certainly, they are trying to improve their capabilities and have fallen a little short, but with our own mid-term elections coming up, let’s hope there is a little more preparation for these kinds of attacks than we saw in the last election.
We tend, a little too much, to focus on what was done to the election systems and not where the Russians are trying to go with their sabatoge. They want to affect election results, not just the posting of them.
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