As Understanding of Russian Hacking Grows, So Does Alarm

Would encourage anyone pondering this to read the 1997 Chinese miltary document (in your preferred language) called Unrestricted Warfare [0]. China and Russia both internally perceive that the US won (or will continue to win) the technological direct confrontation arms race, so instead they view themselves as always at war in all ways with a focus on indirect conflict.

[0]: https://www.c4i.org/unrestricted.pdf

> By inserting themselves into the SolarWinds’ Orion update and using custom tools, they also avoided tripping the alarms of the “Einstein” detection system that homeland security deployed across government agencies to catch known malware, and the so-called C.D.M. program that was explicitly devised to alert agencies to suspicious activity.

Have these names (“Einstein”) been disclosed before?

What is the evidence that this was done by Russia?

why don't you read the posts by fireeye and other reputable sources (whichever ones seem "reputable" to you) and then tell us what you think? i guarantee you that at least i will read it. my motives are that the prevailing analyses are that the russian government is responsible, but i would like to read a contrary analysis.