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Originally Posted by MartinSE
Exactly true, for decades literally. But, again if you read this alert, this is a new attack using new code that we are not yet prepared to deal with.
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Russia has attacked every free world country's elections and corporations for the last 15 years. They have designated troll farms to undermine Europe and US society. I wonder if those troll farms employ large numbers of young tech-savvy intellectuals? And how much were they paid? And how many have recently left Russia as part of a "brain drain" of intellectuals offended by the Ukraine war. Supposedly Russian oil production is DECREASING because of losing skilled oil field operators and maintenance people. 40% of the Russian economy is in the oil industry. Russia lacks economic diversity and they have had a Sovereign Debt default recently.
Recently Russia tried a cyber-attack against Finland and maybe Sweden because of their interest in joining NATO. Finland was probably prepared for it (better than the US) because since Finland and Russia share about an 800-mile long border - so Finland has to be prepared to resist Russia because it is strongly in their self-interest. Finland has the equivalent of an underground bomb shelter for its whole capital city. The US has hardened military sites, but not much for its civilians.