Not really refuting your comments but I would like to clarify my thoughts on this.
jschell wrote:
Yes but to be fair it follows that it was only claimed and not proven that the Republicans were hacked.
I was making the assumption that China and Russia are actively probing all major political power structures to gather intelligence. It is not limited to the U.S. I would also assume that we are actively searching for cracks in their IT systems for the same reasons. Keeping a close eye on potential adversaries is a given in international diplomacy.
jschell wrote:
Not sure I really see China as an active supporter of Trump.
They may not have supported Trump but they had good reason to work against Clinton. If she continued down the diplomatic road-map that she laid out as Secretary of State, she would have actively worked against Chinese plans for military and economic expansion in SE Asia.
jschell wrote:
Err...no that doesn't follow.
From a technology standpoint, with the TOR, the uncharted depths of the dark web, and thousands of automated Bot-Nets in existence, anybody can launch any kind of information based attack and remain untraceable just from exploiting how the internet works. I know that we can analyze attack vectors and patterns to get a good idea of where it came from but, to reiterate, it is impossible to be 100% certain who is launching the attacks.
jschell wrote:
But we however must still admit that wanting and succeeding are two different things.
After all polling indicates she was going to win right up to the actual election.
This together with errors in the Brexit polls only show that polling is never absolute as anyone can lie. Also, their sample sizes were often too small to even be considered remotely accurate. A +/- 3.5% margin of error is huge in statistics.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); } Meus ratio ex fortis machina. Simplicitatis de formae ac munus. -Foothill, 2016
