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The NYT write-up

Obey — Wed, 10 May 2017 08:52:46 +0000

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The NYT write-up

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/09/world/europe/hackers-came-but-the-french-were-prepared.html?_r=0

I went to geek central, Wired

artappraiser — Mon, 08 May 2017 18:41:08 +0000

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I went to geek central, Wired.com, to see if they had anything on that and I found this instead: Don’t Pin the Macron Email Hack on Russia Just Yet.

Edit to add: But then @ The Guardian I found this contrarian analysis.

Who advised Macron on how to

PeraclesPlease — Mon, 08 May 2017 18:22:59 +0000

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Who advised Macron on how to do this? Seems could be a much bigger deal than on first glance - perhaps a major escalation in international cyber wars. Though while the Cold War carried on for years, I doubt a Cyber War would last that long due to the advantages the West has in controlling infrastructure and access to various key internet resources, but I certainly could be wrong.

Ok, enough of that, I am

artappraiser — Mon, 08 May 2017 18:08:33 +0000

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Ok, enough of that, I am tempering my enthusiasm today after I saw this tweet and then went "doh!"

At least now the French have a good reason to be condescending to Americans.
— Franklin Leonard (@franklinleonard) May 7, 2017

The following was retweeted

Obey — Mon, 08 May 2017 14:05:35 +0000

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The following was retweeted by Matthew Green, so I'm reasonably confident that it is an accurate representation of events from a knowledgeable source.

https://medium.com/@gevron/analyzing-a-counter-intelligence-cyber-operation-how-macron-just-changed-cyber-security-forever-22553abb038b

The conclusion:

My main takeaway? Beyond excitement?

Five major things to take note of:

Cyber security has been on the defensive for a very long time. Finally seeing people think like I do and take control of the battle ground, not just sitting and waiting for the adversaries to bypass our static defences, but using the attackers’ very own predictable methodologies and m.o. against them is very exciting.

If it indeed happened as described, this is the first public and soon to be famous counterintelligence attempt against a cyber propaganda campaign, meant to affect a nation’s politics and policies. In other words, information warfare or as it is now called, cyber warfare. All the way back to Estonia, we’ve had no answer on how to combat it, or even “fake news”, effectively. The very fact it may have happened empowers me as a defender and energizes me to keep going....

Yes we have to remember how

Obey — Mon, 08 May 2017 09:16:02 +0000

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Yes we have to remember how impressive an achievement it really is. Being a change candidate does not necessarily mean you have to go out to the far edges - or beyond - of the Overton window. He just took a strong and unapologetic stand in the middle, and that refreshing *attitude* rather than any novelty of precise policy seems to have provided enough hope and confidence.

Anne Applebaum op-ed @ WaPo:

artappraiser — Mon, 08 May 2017 08:04:37 +0000

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Anne Applebaum op-ed @ WaPo:

Emmanuel Macron’s extraordinary political achievement

Before you do anything else, spend a moment thinking about the extraordinary achievement of modern France’s youngest president-elect, Emmanuel Macron. Not since Napoleon has anybody leapt to the top of French public life with such speed. Not since World War II has anybody won the French presidency without a political party and a parliamentary base. Aside from some belated endorsements, he had little real support from the French establishment, few of whose members rated the chances of a man from an unfashionable town when he launched his candidacy last year.

He was, it is true, extraordinarily lucky (luck being the quality that Napoleon said he most preferred in his generals). He benefited both from the flameout of Socialist President François Hollande, who decided not even to contest the election, and from a surprise series of personal scandals that dragged down the center-right’s candidate, François Fillon. But Macron was also extraordinarily prescient. He saw that there was an opening in France for a socially liberal, economically liberal, internationalist and optimistic voice. Fillon, like Prime Minister Theresa May in Britain, wanted to repackage nationalist policies into more acceptable language. Macron instead argued openly against the fear, nostalgia, nativism, statism and stagnation on offer from the rest of the political class.

He made no populist promises, he offered no impossible schemes or unattainable riches. And then he won.

Not only did Macron defeat the national socialism of Marine Le Pen, he also defeated what looks like a joint Russian/American attempt to derail him [....]

made my night that you had

artappraiser — Mon, 08 May 2017 05:39:26 +0000

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made my night that you had the same reactiion, jolly.

Vive La France!

jollyroger — Mon, 08 May 2017 03:51:18 +0000

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Vive La France!

I would just like to say I

artappraiser — Mon, 08 May 2017 00:07:51 +0000

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I would just like to say I think his win is fabulous news for the world situation. Precisely because it is going to be taken like this globally: pro-stability, anti-Trump and anti-Putin. The trends of zany nonsensical populism and zany xenophobia stopped in their tracks, the psychology of this is everything, It may be temporary but it's a major boost.

I've been known to be quite cynical and sarcastic about French culture in general. Not today. They really did "do the right thing" in a real tough voting situation.