> officials declined to say where they believe the attack originated

Which means they know. Which means it's China since if it was some backwater country they'd just go ahead and say it, and if it was a western one they'd assume it was teenagers. But coming from China, it is the government doing it, so that's the only country that's taboo to name after being hacked.

>> communications with national leaders as they >> negotiate, often behind the scenes, ...

Looking forward to reading the stuff on Wikileaks.

Only absolutely necessary things should be classified. Not every time a goverment f*cks up, the should just print a "secret" onto it to get away with things.

Its not a democracy if we don't have enough information to make our election choices.

No matter how sophisticated or amateurish this attack is, or was, you can be sure that it will be used by politicians as ammunition to help pass laws which most people reading this will probably disagree with.

Since when did phishing count as a sophisticated cyber attack?

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Thank you, Anonymous. Somebody has to take on those evil bastards.