The "Russia" allegation sounds like an extremely weak & repetitive claim made by people on a certain political side to divert attention away from their bad press for criminal behavior (to include all of the Chinese compromises that were recently revealed).
They're playing a VERY dangerous game, as if they would rather the entire world be destroyed before facing the possibilities of justice (Gitmo, military court tribunals, and everything else that the EO from 9/18 outlined).
The bottom line: the MSM has been full of $&@T for quite some time, and this claim in Reuters is most likely more of the same.
I see where they claim it's a sophisticated / state-sponsored attack, but could you share where they attribute it to Russia in particular? If that's a political assessment made by the media that's one thing, but if these sourced have some sort of technical data that inherently links it to a particular nation... that's something I haven't seen.
Yeah, I think that every time someone/some org knee jerks "it was russia" without at least acknowledging there could be a variety of well funded actors interested in compromising the US Treasury [or any other target] for a variety of reasons and/or having the incentive to make it look like someone else could have done it, just pours more fuel on the attribution fire.
We need a decentralized search just like DNS is a central service, but not centrally managed (OK, mostly not centrally managed).
How about each web site indexing their own contents and then there being a mechanism for your client to crawl the indexes, just like a DNS resolver will query servers until it finds the answer it wants. My iPhone is leaps and bounds more powerful than desktops of a decade ago - there is zero reason to pool power in data centers. Indeed it would be impractical for Google to replicate the power of all the clients worldwide in a data center.
They're playing a VERY dangerous game, as if they would rather the entire world be destroyed before facing the possibilities of justice (Gitmo, military court tribunals, and everything else that the EO from 9/18 outlined).
The bottom line: the MSM has been full of $&@T for quite some time, and this claim in Reuters is most likely more of the same.