<story><title>The Spy Who Added Me on LinkedIn</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/the-spy-who-added-me-on-linkedin</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rdtsc</author><text>This is a good story, well written. I remember the previous case with the sleeper agents. The one theme I see is waste. Seems like such a wasteful way to do things -- spend decades planning and setting everything up and then they go and just ask companies for random info. Or during the Soviet times I like how they sent this spy to acquire info on the Space Shuttle, so he went to a public library and photo-copied stuff from there. Years of training and all that setup to go and press the &amp;quot;copy&amp;quot; button in a library.&lt;p&gt;The timing of the story is not a coincidence I am guessing. They mentioned the &amp;quot;election&amp;quot; so I am assuming it is playing along with the Russians have rigged the election and KGB agents are everywhere. And that&amp;#x27;s why Clinton&amp;#x27;s campaign resulted in worse Democratic election performance in 28 years. I don&amp;#x27;t know about anyone else, I but I am getting a little tired of blaming the Russians for everything. Wonder if editors would agree that we should be a lot stricter with our immigration policy and vet people better before letting them come in...</text></comment>
<story><title>The Spy Who Added Me on LinkedIn</title><url>http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-15/the-spy-who-added-me-on-linkedin</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>secfirstmd</author><text>Anyone else feel that if the Russians really wanted to influence the election, the actual methodologies used and people targeted were not that impressive or well thought through? I mean it was hardly Stuxnet.&lt;p&gt;If your wanna change an election why not hack a wider range of targets? I know that &amp;quot;Who gains most?&amp;quot; is one of the best ways to attribute blame in the intelligence world but I have not (like the North Korea &amp;#x2F; Sony hack) seen evidence that even nearly proves it was a hack directed by the Russian Government. Possibly a malicious sympathiser but hardly state level techniques...&lt;p&gt;Also, how slow and useless are the NSA that they weren&amp;#x27;t watching to protect senior people in one of the two major parties in the country? If so many intelligence folks are as sure as they claim to be that it&amp;#x27;s the Russians, where is the counter-response? You mean to tell me that the TAO can&amp;#x27;t do better then some leaks about Russian businessmen close to Putin - obviously that is one of his weak points but he doesn&amp;#x27;t care about that right now. I get that they don&amp;#x27;t want to reveal warfighting capabilities but seriously - if you think it&amp;#x27;s really the Russians, throw a shoulder...</text></comment>