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1. Bob Mottram (bob)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2017 00:27:31 CET Bob Mottram
   The Russian hackers are uberleet. They are in all the things. They know everything and can spend arbitrary sums of money on Facebook ads which are totally convincing. They know exactly how to exit from vim and they are already post-quantum. They have above average touch typing speed and they can solve fizzbuzz in C with gcc optimizations.
   
   https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/11/10/inenglish/1510329788_994258.html
   
   I expect a lot of the stuff about Russian hackers will turn out to be misdirection. It's more convenient to blame meddling foreigners than to face up to difficult domestic issues. Just because something appears to come from a Russian IP address that doesn't mean it originated there.
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   • Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)] (lnxw48a1)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2017 01:16:04 CET Nobody [LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1)]

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     @bob One thing that I think both the media and the #pollies forget. No one changes their minds about a candidate based on the garbage they view on Facebook. They argue against and block people whose messages are contrary to their chosen candidates.
     
     Blaming Russia and Facebook and Twitter instead of examining what voters were saying to the political leadership when they surprised everyone (me included) with the election results risks repeating those results in 2020.
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   • Giorgio Comai (giocomai)'s status on Sunday, 12-Nov-2017 21:08:32 CET Giorgio Comai

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     @bob A previous article by ElPais, as well as lengthier analysis by the Atlantic Council, was honestly embarrassing as soon as you started looking at the details. So much focus on irrelevant articles posted by Sputnik and such. It's absurd how much uncritical press coverage these things are getting.