Leaked 'Vulkan Files' reveal Russia's cyberwarfare operations

[Gezzer]

In my opinion, all the interest was from the US, getting the UK out from the EU, they knew what could happen in a few years (they were working on it) and the possible economic consequences. This way it was easier for them to take some measures (sanctions) at that moment that would affect the UK less (lol, it happened a lot otherwise). and so far everything has pointed to the manipulations of Cambridge Analytic

You just as likely to be right as wrong on that. The big problem with the intelligence community is they love to hide behind ambiguous obscurity. Drilling down to the originating actors of any clandestine action is extremely hard to be certain of. It's sometimes like a never ending onion, each layer just hides another layer.

The one reason I feel there's a good chance that Russia had a hand in Brexit is due to this book.

Foundations of Geopolitics - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The book actually states that in regards to the U.K. Russia should do everything it can to "cut it off from Europe". Then further considering that Putin is ex KGB and the author of the book is AFAIK part (or was) of Putin's inner circle it makes Russia look highly suspicious in regards to Brexit.

 

[kinetix]

You just as likely to be right as wrong on that. The big problem with the intelligence community is they love to hide behind ambiguous obscurity. Drilling down to the originating actors of any clandestine action is extremely hard to be certain of. It's sometimes like a never ending onion, each layer just hides another layer.

The one reason I feel there's a good chance that Russia had a hand in Brexit is due to this book.

Foundations of Geopolitics - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

The book actually states that in regards to the U.K. Russia should do everything it can to "cut it off from Europe". Then further considering that Putin is ex KGB and the author of the book is AFAIK part (or was) of Putin's inner circle it makes Russia look highly suspicious in regards to Brexit.

could be. But it would be no different from the US policy, and even older UK policy, of keeping Russia separate from the rest of Europe, primarily from Germany. Just like Kissinger and Brzezinski's, even Keegan´s ideas of separating Russia into pieces (are there in their books, "The Grand Chesboard" by Brzezinski would be the US equivalent of that book that you reference), although it originates from much earlier, and/or dominate those regions, you know, "Hearthland".
As one of the founders of NATO said, everything was about "America in, Germany down and Russia out"
so ...

 

[Gezzer]

could be. But it would be no different from the US policy, and even older UK policy, of keeping Russia separate from the rest of Europe, primarily from Germany. Just like Kissinger and Brzezinski's, even Keegan´s ideas of separating Russia into pieces (are there in their books, "The Grand Chesboard" by Brzezinski would be the US equivalent of that book that you reference), although it originates from much earlier, and/or dominate those regions, you know, "Hearthland".
As one of the founders of NATO said, everything was about "America in, Germany down and Russia out"
so ...

For sure. It's funny but IMHO well there are "bad guys" depending on the current political climate, there's never really any "good guys". Just kind of less malicious. I doubt there's any country with the capability to be a player that can also prove they have totally clean hands. Claim it maybe, but... And the US just like Russia has some pretty dirty hands in a few pies not their own.

 

[m3tavision]

And we would do that how? Beyond the fact that totalitarian regimes have been trying to do what you suggest to their own citizens for years and never quite succeeding, there's a bigger issue. A totalitarian governments' biggest tool is the control of information. Cut the Russian people out of the internet and you actually make Putin and any of his successors job's easier, not harder.

They can still hack us to their heart's content, just like those that oppose Russia will be able to do. Both sides will just have to find access points in locations still part of each countries system. But now we'll have no way to disseminate information to the Russians. How many Russian's do you think would be currently opposing Putin if he had complete control of the information Russian's receive? Would we even be made aware of the subject of this article if Russia was cut of from the rest of the internet?

Government cyber warfare is here to stay. And virtually any country technologically advanced enough is doing it. That genie has been long out of the bottle. Cutting Russia off isn't the answer. Using the internet to shine the harsh light of truth on Russia activities while exposing their atrocities to the Russian people using the same internet is about the only course of action we have. Oh, and learning to be critical thinkers, but I'm not holding my breath waiting on that one.

If you cut Russia off from the Internet, you cut Russian Citizens from the Internet.... and they will REBELL... when they find out that the World's Internet was cut from them, because Putin conducting Warfare on Other countries.

Putin would last about 5m.....

 

[Badbreathbarfly]

Are you implying Russia hacked voter machines ... because I honestly don't know how else they could have influenced an election.

I don't mean to be rude.
But, there's probably a whole lot that you don't know.