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    Quote Originally Posted by Grokmaster View Post
    Bu-bu-but , this isn't what PUTIN WANTS !!!!

    See what happens when a POTUS is willing to CONFRONT offending nations , as opposed to former Pres. Mommy Pants, "More Flexible for Vladipoo"....




    US sanctions Russians for cyberattacks and election meddling


    The US Department of the Treasury has instituted sanctions against five Russian entities and 19 individuals for their involvement in a number of cyberattacks and online efforts to interfere with the US presidential election.

    The sanctions prohibit US companies and individuals from conducting business with those named by the Treasury Department. "The Administration is confronting and countering malign Russian cyber activity, including their attempted interference in US elections, destructive cyberattacks and intrusions targeting critical infrastructure," Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said in a statement.


    "These targeted sanctions are a part of a broader effort to address the ongoing nefarious attacks emanating from Russia. Treasury intends to impose additional CAATSA sanctions, informed by our intelligence community, to hold Russian government officials and oligarchs accountable for their destabilizing activities by severing their access to the US financial system."

    Among those being sanctioned is the Internet Research Agency, which US officials have said played a major role in the Russian campaign to sow political discord during the 2016 election. The Treasury Department notes the IRA's efforts to create fake online personas and pose as US individuals and organizations, the ads it bought during the election and the political rallies it organized and coordinated ahead of and following the election.

    Along with the IRA, the Treasury Department sanctioned an additional two entities and 13 individuals who assisted the IRA in some way.






    https://www.yahoo.com/news/us-sancti...181700997.html

    So the sanctions really amount to more control over the actions of American citizens and companies?

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    So the sanctions really amount to more control over the actions of American citizens and companies?
    The real danger is coming with an attempt to federalize every Internet connection in any way related to the 14 critical infrastructures. That is everything.
    Call your state legislators and insist they approve the Article V convention of States to propose amendments.


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    US intel warns of Russian threat to power grid... US military given more authority to launch preventative cyberattacks Tue September 18, 2018 - The US military is taking a more aggressive stance against foreign government hackers who are targeting the US and is being granted more authority to launch preventative cyberstrikes, according to a summary of the Department of Defense's new Cyber Strategy
    . The Pentagon is referring to the new stance as "defend forward," and the strategy will allow the US military "to disrupt or halt malicious cyber activity at its source, including activity that falls below the level of armed conflict." The new military strategy, signed by Defense Secretary James Mattis, also emphasizes an intention to "build a more lethal force" of first-strike hackers. The "defend forward" initiative wasn't included in the 2015 strategy and further enables the United States to carry out offensive hacking operations to defend against cyberattacks on critical US infrastructure, such as election systems and the energy grid. In effect, it gives the US military more authority to act on its own -- even against computer networks based in friendly countries. Normally, one nation's hackers will establish a computer network in a second country before launching an attack on a third country. For example, Russia might use computers in Germany to attack the United States. Until recently, if the US National Security Agency observed Russian hackers building a computer network in a Western European country, the president's National Security Council would need to weigh in before any action is taken. Now, the NSA won't have to give its seal of approval, according to Jason Healey, a senior research scholar at Columbia University and former George W. Bush White House cyber official.
    US intel warns of Russian threat to power grid
    This new strategy provides a roadmap for the military to wipe out the enemy computer network in a friendly country, said Healey. "It's extremely risky to be doing this," Healey told CNN on Tuesday. "If you loosen the rules of engagement, sometimes you're going to mess that up." There is a growing threat from government-sponsored cyberattacks that disrupt civilian life. There is a major focus on Russian efforts to disrupt the 2018 midterms and there is a concern they may target US infrastructure. In 2015, Moscow was formally accused of hacking Ukraine's electric grid in an unprecedented cyberattack that led to widespread power outages. In 2016 and 2017, North Korea stole $81 million from Bangladesh's central bank and carried out a worldwide attack on Microsoft computers through a ransomware attack known as "WannaCry 2.0." However, under the new strategy, US offensive cyberattacks will not target civilian infrastructure, because the US must abide by a UN agreement that prohibits "damaging civilian critical infrastructure during peacetime." This is the Trump administration's second move to give the US military more autonomy over cyberattacks. It follows the National Security Council's recent replacement of an Obama-era directive with one that gives US Cyber Command -- the military's hackers -- more freedom to conduct counteroffensive hacking. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/18/polit...ity/index.html

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