US newspaper's 'Biden will hack Russia' claim: A good way to reassure Putin you'll leave him alone

US newspaper's 'Biden will hack Russia' claim: A good way to reassure Putin you'll leave him alone

Opinion The US government might have subtly signalled that it likely won't hack Russia this month – by telling credulous journalists it has a "clandestine" plan to, er, launch an attack against its rival before April.


The counterintuitive move came over the weekend when The New York Times published a story setting out how "over the next three weeks… a series of clandestine operations" will take place "across Russian networks" with the intention of secretly getting the attention of Vladimir Putin and his intelligence services.

Set against the backdrop of the SolarWinds and FireEye hack, and the most recent Hafnium attacks against Microsoft Exchange servers, it isn't hard ..

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