The article from The New York Times, discusses a new tool the Russians created in cyberhacking the United States system, and being able to see all the files via internet. Yared Tamene was hired to look into this, His first moves were to check Google for “the Dukes” and conduct a cursory search of the D.N.C. computer system logs to look for hints of such a cyberintrusion. By his own account, he did not look too hard even after Special Agent Hawkins called back repeatedly over the next several weeks — in part because he wasn’t certain the caller was a real F.B.I. agent and not an impostor. “I had no way of differentiating the call I just received from a prank call,” Mr. Tamene wrote in an internal memo, obtained by The New York Times, that detailed his contact with the F.B.I. It was the cryptic first sign of a cyberespionage and information-warfare campaign devised to disrupt the 2016 presidential election, the first such attempt by a foreign power in American history.
It’s amazing to me how the world has developed in such ways to the point that everyone uses the Internet or cellular devices, so if a country has the power to tap into the system to see everything and use technology than they would be invencible. The United States nationality makes us seem the “strongest” but in all reality we are very weak compared to these countries, such as Russia and China, who are dominate in science etc. I believe the United States should stop caring less about looking in the mirror but learn how to advance everyday as a nation. This can relate to the advancement in nuclear power, such as the atomic bomb, during World War II. It became a scary, horrible tool, that could ultimately destroy a nation if possessed to. It’s important to know what something can do, and how much harm it can create in an instant, before pressing the green button.
I like how you highlighted how technology has the power to affect foreign and governmental affairs.
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