Our book today is Cyber War, how Russian hackers and trolls helped elect a

president by Kathleen Hall Jameson. This is from the introduction.

Imagine a strategy memo forecasting cyber attacks by Russian hackers, trolls, and bots designed

to royal social discontent and damage the electoral process of a major party U.S.

presidential nominee.

Or if she winds up winning, sabotage her ability to govern.

Guaranteed payoff, no fingerprints, no keystroke record, no contrals in the cloud.

To ensure that Americans would believe that disparaging messages about her were made in the

U.S. use Bitcoin to buy space and set up virtual private networks on American

servers. Distribute hacked contents stolen from the accounts of her staff and associates

through an intermediary, WikiLeaks. Use identity theft, stolen Social Security numbers, and

appropriated IDs to circumvent Facebook and PayPal's demand for actual names,

birth dates, and addresses. On platforms such as Instagram and Twitter,

register under assumed names.

Defuse and amplify your attack and advocacy through posts on Facebook,

tweets and retweets on Twitter,

videos on YouTube, reporting and commentary on RT, blogging on

Tumblr, news sharing on Reddit, and viral memes and jokes on 9-Gag.

Add to the mix a video game called Hill Tendo in which a missile trading Clinton figure vaporizes classified emails sought by the FBI.

employ online agitators and bots to upvote posts from imposter websites such as Black Matters U.S.

dot com to the top of such sub-redits as R slash The Donald and R slash Hillary for

prison.

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