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Assume for a moment, that you had a fleet of “drones” and you decide to go for broke, and start your own Pizza Delivery business, by drone. Your motto: “Delivery in 20 Minutes or less, or it’s Free!”
You get your Pizza Supplier(s) lined up. Most eager to re-coup their profits, using your “cut-rate” delivery service.
Only one small problem though, in order to save all that money, you declined to pay the licensing fees to program your “robotic” fleet with up-to-date GPS Address books.
Just how far do you think your “pie-in-the-sky” Business will get, relying solely on “following the customers directions” method? Chances are you would barely “get off the ground” without this vital “addressing service” …
Well as just reported by Maddow (and McClatchy), the Russian “delivery bots” had much the same problem, with meeting their “20 minutes” promise of Dirt in your Inbox — Or … what? No Dirt. And you’ll never guess, who investigators are now examining, as the Map-provider of last resort, to that fledgling automated foreign fleet ...
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Four intelligence agencies concluded Russia attempted to influence the 2016 election and worked to defeat Clinton, in part by launching a cyberattack to spread fake and negative news about the Democratic presidential nominee on Twitter and Facebook. The cyberattack reached millions of voters, with many living in swing states and key precincts.
The Russian operation used "bots" to increase the reach of the stories about Clinton.
A source familiar with the Justice Department's investigation into Russian meddling, led by special counsel Robert Mueller, told McClatchy investigators doubt that Russian cyber operatives controlling the bots independently knew "where to specifically target ... to which high-impact states and districts in those states."
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A source told McClatchy Kushner's "role as a possible cut-out or conduit for Moscow's influence operations in the elections," including his role as leader of the campaign's digital operations, will be examined.
Investigators looking for connections between Jared Kushner-led Trump digital operation and Russia
by Melissa Quinn , www.washingtonexaminer.com -- Jul 12, 2017
So let that be a lesson to you, ambitious drone-bot operators out there.
Chances are they’ll confiscate all the Pizza (and the Profits), after they reprogram the drones to deliver them only to their “best-est” friends and associates. It’ll be Great!!!