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Russians in Silicon Valley Can’t Shake Hacking’s Shadow

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I'd love to see a tongue in cheek time series graph titled: "How Much Russians are the Enemy (by public perception)"

Feels like we are higher than the seasonal norm these days.

Well. If anyone wonders why I advise them to visit one of the ex-Warsaw pact or USSR countries. You can still sense the presence of russian influence there.

Russians themselves are not so much enemies. The state is.

I've only ever known awesome Russians. My comment is mostly a joke about ignorance.

> When prospective business partners meet Mr. Cherkashin, he said, they often ask him if his money is clean.

"Yes of course it's clean, it was just laundered"

Well heck, I was called a Russian shill here just the other day, and I am not even Russian.

It is also interesting because the Chinese are thought to have conducted the OPM hack -- probably one of the most massive and embarrassing strikes against the US government's intelligence and military agencies in decades, maybe ever. Anybody worried after that about Chinese companies or individuals buying assets in US (like say real estate). It's not nearly at the same level of hysteria and panic as people are about Russians. At least the press hasn't done nearly the amount of coverage.

you don't need to be X to be an X shill. the phrase usually means shilling about X.

> you don't need to be X to be an X shill. the phrase usually means shilling about X.

I guess not. But they specifically dug into my comment history to prove that I was X (which I am not). So by their definition they were looking for the "need to be an X"

You were called a shill by a [dead] user for this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15381118

In your comment you summarize illegal Russian interference in the election (via political advertising), while simultaneously asserting that Russian interference is a false narrative.

I won't accuse you of being a shill, because I'm familiar with Hanlon's razor.

I was asserting that Russians are interfering with elections in many countries, including ours. But the story that it had any significant impact on the election is a false narrative.

Unless they somehow hacked Hillary's agenda so she never landed in Wisconsin and so that she never addressed the concerned of the workers from the Rustbelt states.

> I was asserting that Russians are interfering with elections in many countries

You did not make that assertion anywhere in the linked comment.

It was in the same conversation thread:

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> It's a modus-operandi of the Russian intelligence apparatus

I believe that. KGB has been doing that since it was formed. Technically they might not have been sophisticated but they were good at planting stories and spinning narratives. I remember the "US govt created AIDS to kill all the black people" fake news.

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Just below it

"Hack Temple" is a cool name. Don't let PC get in the way. (P.S. I am also Russian-American)

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