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18 Dec, 5 tweets, 2 min read
A Trump administration official tells Axios that the cyberattack on the U.S. government and corporate America, apparently by Russia, is looking worse by the day — and secrets may still be being stolen in ways not yet discovered.
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If this had been a physical attack on America's secrets, we could be at war.

Imagine if during the Cold War, the Soviet Union had broken into a building in Washington and walked out with correspondence, budgets and more. axios.com/solarflares-ru…
The gravity wasn't immediately apparent because this wasn't the "cyber Pearl Harbor" that experts have warned about: No one took out a power grid, or stole a bunch of money or destabilized the markets.
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Instead, it's more like someone has been walking in and out of your house for months, and you don't really know what they took.

And they may have built a secret door. axios.com/solarflares-ru…
Trump has stayed silent on the hack, meaning that Biden's overflowing inbox now includes Russian reprisal, damage mitigation and future deterrence. axios.com/solarflares-ru…

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