Chris Reed: The intriguing theory on why Russia hasn't hit Ukraine with a massive cyberwar [Opinion]
In 1876, for example, Western Union was the sole owner of America’s only nationwide telegraph network, and very much wanted Ohio Republican Rutherford P. Hayes to be the next president., “The Master Switch,” Western Union transmitted “story after story about what an honest man Hayes was, what a good governor he had been, or just whatever he happened to be doing that day. It omitted any scandals related to Hayes, and it declined to run positive stories about his rivals .
Nearly 150 years later, there is a broad awareness about the use of technology in attempts to skew elections and to pull off many other kinds of mischief — by governments, media companies and anonymous mercenary hackers alike. But what’s not broadly understood is the stunning breadth of cyber conflict and crime around the world.
It seemed like this battlefield was about to get extremely busy. The presumption was that Russia’s Feb. 24 invasion of Ukraine would trigger the most open cyberwarfare yet, given that in 2015 and 2016, Russian hackers managed to
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