dmitrykan

> Visa and MasterCard pulled their services a few years ago after another set of US sanctions.

When did that happen? I’ve been paying with a Master Card just recently in Russia.

Information engineering, that is. In his book "Parting with illusions" V. Pozner claims from journalist's experience: no matter what external propaganda will do it can be neglected really. Because internal propaganda will beat it in a big way.

Like one Russian friend of mine joked: "if you need your tax system hacked, let us know."

That it is published, does not necessarily mean, it is truth.

It is a long standing play: the farthest is likely an enemy. Likely, Chinese hackers could do it or anybody who wanted to interfere. But if it was hacked, shows something for the ability of each individual government to protect themselves. Same is published of other, not only U.S., governments, like Britain.

It far easier to claim a hack, than to acknowledge, that Trump was _actually_ voted for.

Any article that starts with biasing against some country (Russia, Iran, Finland, whatever) discourages from reading it. Because the authors unequivocally assume that guilt of a particular country is already a known truth and hence does not need a separate discussion -- so we can safely plunge into Facebook's issues of not being able to withstand such attacks.

So, sorry, not going to read the article.