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PJMcK

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22. Who cares?

Tue Jul 17, 2018, 08:15 AM

Jul 2018

The real threat from Russia is if they can affect vote counting and voter registrations. This is to say that there could be other cyber targets such as airlines, power grids and other public services. Those would have a national impact.

Knocking DU offline for a few weeks didn't have any effect on the 2016 elections. After all, all of us voted for Democratic candidates, right?

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Knowing what we know now, about the Russian hacking, does that shed any new light on the DU [View all] Meadowoak Jul 2018 OP

Highly unlikely. Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #1

It was on someone's radar. That is for sure. We did get russian trolls all over applegrove Jul 2018 #3

That's because DI is a RW cesspool. Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #5

Could easily have been Russia. A good intelligence operation would look juvenile as cover. applegrove Jul 2018 #6

Meh, we're a community of a couple thousand. Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #8

We get much busier when there is news or an election. No doubt the growth of applegrove Jul 2018 #10

I've been here awhile. Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #11

Stop saying that. We are statistically significant group of democrats applegrove Jul 2018 #12

Saying what? That DU has no real world impact? Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #14

Well you are wrong. applegrove Jul 2018 #15

Ok. nt Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #16

I have to agree with Dr here. bearsfootball516 Jul 2018 #19

Well we are ahead of the curb on the news. We'll have to disagree. applegrove Jul 2018 #32

DU is generally ahead of the curve. LisaM Jul 2018 #26

Ahead of what curve? Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #36

It's a decent-sized site, and I always see things here ahead of Facebook. LisaM Jul 2018 #38

No,it's a VERY small site that skews to an older demographic. Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #39

I get it, you find it irrelevant. LisaM Jul 2018 #41

I don't find it irrelevant, it IS irrelevant. Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #42

Not sure about Russia, but definitely someone with the intent to disrupt Democrats. Hoyt Jul 2018 #27

4-chan script kiddies... Raster Jul 2018 #30

Indeed there was... Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #37

What I find interesting is that somebody cared enough to vandalize a well-constructed site... Hekate Jul 2018 #17

CSPAN flipping to RT happened right when Maxine Waters was warning about Russia wishstar Jul 2018 #33

Thanks for refreshing my memory. That was what made me believe DU's pain wasn't just mischief... Hekate Jul 2018 #34

it absolutely is on putin's radar AlexSFCA Jul 2018 #2

What DU wiki hack? Dr Hobbitstein Jul 2018 #4

The russians were here. They could have done it. DU is obviously an important applegrove Jul 2018 #9

me too -- same gut feeling. fierywoman Jul 2018 #7

It wasn't a hack... anyone can change a wikipedia page. demmiblue Jul 2018 #21

I would definitely say that Russian intelligence used DU to find Meadowoak Jul 2018 #13

I should have responded to you directly -- see my post #17 Hekate Jul 2018 #18

No, DU doesn't really have that much website traffic in order to be considered a good target. n/t demmiblue Jul 2018 #20

Who cares? PJMcK Jul 2018 #22

DU is. Certainly a good resource, if you wanted to learn about Democrats, get inside their heads Meadowoak Jul 2018 #23

Exactly. It is an insightful incubator of Democratic thinking. Otherwise why would it have applegrove Jul 2018 #24

+ 1 red dog 1 Jul 2018 #25

Anything's possible. red dog 1 Jul 2018 #28

DU was NOT a Russian hack... Raster Jul 2018 #29

You never know MFM008 Jul 2018 #31

To my knowledge, the admins have never commented on it. jpak Jul 2018 #35

We were micro-targeted Generic Brad Jul 2018 #40