Make no mistake, we ARE at war with Russia.
This is not the “Cold War” of the latter half of the last century where two super powers continually armed themselves with weapons of mass destruction that could end all human life on the planet within a few hours.
Nor is this the “Hot War” that broke out in 1914, was put on hold in 1918, then picked up where it left off in September of 1931 only to be ended after millions upon millions of deaths of both combatants and civilians in a global conflagration that only ended after the most horrific weapon ever conceived of by homo sapiens was used not once, but twice.
This is a “Lukewarm War” being fought in the nether reaches of the global information infrastructure by governments bent on controlling the free elections of those nations that currently choose their governments and are not merely a public face on despotism masquerading as a democratically elected government.
This “Lukewarm War” will escalate now. The Macron campaign caught on to the techniques used by the Russian hackers to gain access to political email servers in order to steal confidential information and then “Leak” that information to Wikileaks. They countered the “phishing expedition” by the Russians and responded to those emails by planting phony email addresses and passwords in response to clicking those “phishing” links.
Then they wisely planted garbage information in phony emails in the inboxes of those phony email addresses, giving clear access to those Russian hackers. That phony information was then passed on to Wikileaks who, in their Russian sycophantic fervor, immediately published the phony information.
The Macron campaign was then in a position to easily deflect this garbage email dump by Wikileaks, resulting in a landslide victory yesterday.
If only the Hillary Clinton campaign and the DNC had been so farsighted as to “honey pot” these Russian hackers so easily. What a different world we would be living in today had they been able to foresee such moves by the Russians and counter them last year, but hindsight is 20/20 and nobody with any influence in the Democratic campaign could foresee the blithe evil that is the Russian government for what it is prior to the Russians forcing in their sycophant and puppet.
Now, the “Lukewarm War” will escalate, because the simple social engineering techniques cannot function any longer in this “Lukewarm War”. Sadly, our government is in no position to counter the escalation due to the nature of those that hold power in the Executive Branch and their simpleminded kowtowing to the Russian government on all matters since they are completely beholden to those foreign hostile interests in all matters.
We now stand at a crossroads. Our government will not engage the enemy in this “Lukewarm War” at any level moving forward as the current government owes its very existence to these hostile foreign powers. It is now up to every American to fight this enemy in this “Lukewarm War” at every level and with every fiber of our being.
The beauty of this is, we have more power than the Russians in this endeavor. The computing power of the American people outstrips the entire rest of the planet combined if you look at all Americans and their devices. We are the most computerized people on the planet and can combine our computing power into a massive effort to combat the evil of the Russian Federation and their hackers in a massive combined computing effort.
All we need to do is actually do it. The infrastructure is there. Look into B.O.I.N.C.. All we need to do is get a project into the Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing and get the right people to develop a module to look for and counter Russian hacker activity through combined resource sharing and compute power. We’re curing cancer with this technology. We’re searching for extraterrestrial intelligence with this technology. We’re evaluating data collected worldwide on asteroids in order to calculate if there are any threats to our planet.
Surely combining the free compute resources of idle computers sitting in people’s homes can be used to counter this evil war brought down on the free world by the Russians!