Good thing cool heads always prevail and there's no one reactionary in a position of influence, sending stupid tweets and stirring things up without understanding what's happening.
Russian hacker people can't you guys get people to dig wells, build schools or something?
How does anyone get their kicks doing this stuff? What sort of underdeveloped imagination do these people have? I mean if you have the technical skills and geopolitical sense to do this why can't these people find better quality work?
I'm guessing that from their point of view it's both patriotic service of the motherland and a low form of entertainment watching people fall for the trolling.
Who knows what the consequences are going to be and if the outcomes will actually benefit Russia, to judge if it's patriotic or not?
All they are doing is permanently damaging actual Russian talent.
Very hard to know what is real on this one. Nevertheless I consider it outrageous that this "country" (more like natural gas indentured servant city state and chief backer of numerous questionable militant causes) was awarded the World Cup and hope that is somehow reversed.
> “We’re getting tired of reacting to unsubstantiated banalities,” Andrei Krutskikh, a Kremlin adviser on cybersecurity, told the Interfax news agency. “Whatever happens it is hackers. It’s a stale claim and as ever, there is zero evidence, and conclusions are drawn before the incident is even investigated,” he said.
The glorious leader of Russia's people himself said that patriotism is a good enough reason for Russian hackers to exist (and I guess Russia does motivate patriotism with money):
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[ 2.1 ms ] story [ 30.7 ms ] threadHow does anyone get their kicks doing this stuff? What sort of underdeveloped imagination do these people have? I mean if you have the technical skills and geopolitical sense to do this why can't these people find better quality work?
I'm guessing that from their point of view it's both patriotic service of the motherland and a low form of entertainment watching people fall for the trolling.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/06/putin-patriotic-rus...
* http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/russian-hackers-p...
So it is someone saying that an FBI investigation has revealed something:
>Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told CNN the FBI has confirmed the hack and the planting of fake news.
Other than that it is all unnamed "government sources".