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3. I don't think I'd have said the DNC was "hacked."
Sun Dec 11, 2016, 09:34 PM
Dec 2016

That sort of means, to me at least, that their servers were hacked, with their main repository of data and information exposed.

They were phished. I guess that's a hack, but it's a distributed hack. A low-grade hack, at best, email account by email account.

My county's government was hacked a few years ago. (It wasn't big news. For good reason.) Somebody managed to figure out some passwords and enter the system. They scammed some info and could have made a mess with some records. That's different from having some county official click on the wrong link and have his emails forwarded to somebody or have his particular computer compromised.

The lingo used is imprecise. Hacking sounds serious; but most of the hacking of the DNC and RNC was trivial.

Now, it's possible that some voter registration systems were hacked, but if so no damage was done. That hacking is different from hacking individual voting machines.

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