Revealed: Russia’s top secret spy school teaching hacking and election meddling
(www.theguardian.com)
from girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 07 May 08:14
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from girlfreddy@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 07 May 08:14
https://lemmy.ca/post/64485766
Last April, Vladimir Putin visited the campus of Bauman Moscow state technical university, set on the banks of the Yauza River in the east of the city and home to some of the country’s brightest scientific minds.
He toured the campus, met undergraduates and boasted about Moscow’s ambitious plans for space missions to the moon and Mars. “You have everything it takes to be competitive,” Putin told the students.
What the Kremlin readout of Putin’s visit did not mention was a secret faculty inside the university, known simply as Department 4, or “Special Training”.
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But why do they even need to hack elections? The folks over at .ml told me that elections are pointless and the rich already controls everything!
TBH it feels like the rich have so many politicians in their pockets that now they focus on election meddling to show the policies of authoritarianism are validated by the voter base.
Two parts of the same attack: Undermine election integrity while also pushing the idea that votes don’t matter anyway. Maybe you’re only partially successful with both approaches but a couple percentage points here and a couple there can tip previously well-balanced scales in the attacker’s favor.
Its called hedging and they are known for it
I thought that was when you- oh, wait! Hedging, never mind.