Tag DNC hack

Impossible – believable – but so what?

Smart and sophisticated? Paranoid and deluded? Incompetent and occasionally dumb? Looking at Team Kremlin, I can never be sure. I suppose that’s one of their strong sides: you can lose your mind trying to pin them down. Now on to…

I thought hackers were gut-level anarchists

I’ve seen suggestions that “Russian government hackers” (sic) are responsible for the latest big digital break-in, that of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). I don’t know much about hackers, but how do you make one into a “government hacker” –…