[Sloowms]

This is not about cyber security, this is about getting union activity data to the oligarchs. Russian IP's are a useful, probably unintentional, nugget that distracts people from what happened here.

Labor actions is the most powerful tool that ordinary people have and this is an effort to take that away. Citizens are already being kidnapped. Dissenter legal immigrants are being dissappeared.

Anyone that believes the administration is doing any business other than seizing more power is a useful tool.

[galangalalgol]

It is also about cyber security. These people were following pretty good practices for what I'm guessing was a shoestring budget. Having this as a potential threat model is enlightening.

Edit: but yes, that is a bit in the noise compared to the attempt to end democracy in the us that is underway. If some combination of protests and judicial action manage to wake up congress to act for country instead of party, maybe we could use the momentum to do something good. I'd recommend closing the attack vector in our electoral system that creates two parties that can be so easily polarized against each other. Ranked choice voting and proportional representation or mmp for both house and electoral college would probably generate 4-8 parties and wouldn't require any amendments. Just 60 votes to allow the pr/mmp and then the hard part of convincing all the states to implement it in unison rather than delay to give their dominant party advantage.