Obama team expected to announce measures to punish Russia for election hacking

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@nemomen posted what I thought was a pretty convincing summary here:

FBI believes Russia hacks aimed at disrupting election, not electing Trump

There’s a large amount of evidence pointing to Russia. The tools used and a private key recovered from a box were used against Germany in a previous attack identified as perpetrated by GRU. The C&C IPs were used in other attacks. The Russians were initially fairly sloppy, so along with the software on the servers, the documents themselves include a sea of other details from the use of Cyrillic, time zones in file metadata, original metadata containing the Felix Dzerzhinsky username, the imme…