Putin’s Soccer Ball Gift to Trump Apparently Contained a Computer Chip
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I had wondered about that ball and if they'd find any bugs in it.
But it sounds like the NFC device was legitimately embedded by Adidas for the World Cup.
Yes, legit, but the question remains as to if it was hackable by foreign entities.
You know, after all these back and forth blaming, I think Putin just really wants to be friends or have better ties with those sanctioning them and maybe resolve issues within the two countries. If we're always just trying to one up each other via hacks and such, nothing will ever be solved. There needs to be some strong commitments made or agreed upon to change this never ending façade of adversarial rivalry. If we can't solve our differences at home, we're better off not expanding anywhere from Earth.
Are you being serious?
That's nice you think so while Russia continues its full scale electronic assault on our critical and electoral infrastructure in its efforts to affect our upcoming midterms.
Hence why there needs to be some firm agreement made to stop this. Just like START. Just slapping sanctions ain't going to cut it no more. It's like putting a bad kid in the timeout corner in hopes the kid will behave next time around.
shareWe have a president that's denying it's even happening. That's why nothing has stopped. You really don't see this? He is actively enabling Russia to continue engaging in election interference by his refusal to confront Putin on this issue.
I call it as I see it, because I think it couldn't be more obvious Trump doesn't confront him on it because he colluded with Putin to interfere for his benefit in 2016 and continues to do so for upcoming midterms. Seriously, why do you think he demanded no US note taker present to keep record of his meeting with Putin? WTF could he possibly be wanting to talk to Putin about without any US record? This was the 2nd time this happened, he met privately with Putin last summer too with no one present.
So why would Putin stop?
The way it stops is by having a president willing to make it clear to Putin there's a price to pay for his actions. Not just follow through on sanctions (which Trump has dragged his feet and fought against enforcing every step of the way) but retaliatory cyber attacks which Trump would never authorize. Biggest mistake of Obama's presidency was telling his cyber chief to stand down from engaging in retaliatory attacks that NSA had set up that would have crippled Russian digital infrastructure. In testimony of state department Victoria Nuland, his cyber chief was reportedly stunned by Obama's order to stand down. And Obama's decision not to take retaliatory measures only encouraged Putin to step up his interference operations in October 2016. Obama likely thought Hillary had it in the bag.