The original Anonymous crew was tracked down and prosecuted. Today I think it’s just a cover for American cyber security forces. This is just a flex in a secret war that’s been on-going for a while. They were embarrassed and unprepared in the 2016 election, in defending against email hacking. They were quiet, but capable, in the 2020 election, in disrupting their Russian counterparts.
And today we hints of superiority. Leaking Russian military plans and claiming it came from FSB moles? That’s just to tickle Putin’s paranoia and trigger a purge of inside the FSB. Co-opting Russian TV channels? Dumping docs? It seems like American cyberwar units are running inside Russian infrastructure with impunity. This is the real Cold War 2.0.
The original Anonymous crew was tracked down and prosecuted. Today I think it’s just a cover for American cyber security forces. This is just a flex in a secret war that’s been on-going for a while. They were embarrassed and unprepared in the 2016 election, in defending against email hacking. They were quiet, but capable, in the 2020 election, in disrupting their Russian counterparts.
And today we hints of superiority. Leaking Russian military plans and claiming it came from FSB moles? That’s just to tickle Putin’s paranoia and trigger a purge of inside the FSB. Co-opting Russian TV channels? Dumping docs? It seems like American cyberwar units are running inside Russian infrastructure with impunity. This is the real Cold War 2.0.