Urrrrggghhhh. It's AP - so loads of outlets are covering or trending this bullshit.
Basically - no evidence of any data being transferred / stolen.
This entire accusation seems to rest upon some defence contractors (the ones who make those lovely drone things - yeah great people!) having received phishing emails in their personal email accounts. Phishing emails? What like EVERY EMAIL ADDRESS ON THE PLANET GETS?
I'm trying to find in the article any evidence that links these phishing emails to Kremlin spy agencies.... I mean - I'm not saying that these people are not being spied upon for 'competitive advantage'. But if you're a defence contractor and you fall for a basic email phishing scam then frankly, you might be a bit too dim to be working in such a sensitive technology industry. So go on and put me on the McCarthy list as a commie traitor - because if a phishing email is all it takes to bring down secretive military projects then fucking good on you 'Fancy Bear' or 'PayPal Custermor Helps', or 'kindly Nigerian prince', whoever you are. What a load of total wank.
Meanwhile it's totally fine for the NSA to dragnet collect every shred of information in a warrantless manner, because there's certainly no-one connected with the US intelligence agencies that would ever seek any competitive or strategic advantage from that, right?? They just use that to fight the bad guys and terrorists that we know about from movies and stuff....
To round the article off, we've got a lovely run down of how amazing all the latest military and drone hardware is replete with some statistics for wannabe neocons to jerk off to, and how many more billions the weapons industry is set to make from supplying drones to the US military in the coming years.
Am I just nuts?
Cos I don't think I am, not about this at least. I think this constant hypocrisy, scaremongering, ramping up of hostilities and the veneration of the military industrial complex is COMPLETELY fucking nuts - regardless of whether there is any truth to what is being claimed. I'm no journalist, I'm no hacking expert. I'm just some bloke reading this trending AP article and smelling a fat, decaying rat.
I'm sure some will disagree with my rather basic assessment of this, but it reads like straight-up warmongering propaganda to me. Roll up roll up, come and get your lovely war!!
- Some Bloke
PS - Here's a link to the article. Would be interested to hear your thoughts in the replies.