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How the Kremlin is sure to keep its fingerprints off any cyberattack

The Washington Post: MOSCOW — It has become something of a ritual over the past decade. Revelations of a cyberattack against a geopolitical foe of Russia, accusations from Western leaders, and then the inevitable Kremlin response: “Prove it.”

Plausible deniability has long been a key attraction in cyberespionage, a practice that most governments, including the United States, pursue. And while the hacking of Democratic National Committee servers and the subsequent release of stolen documents on WikiLeaks during a heated U.S. presidential race have brought a squall of attention to Moscow, it may all have been expected, analysts said, if the Russian government indeed intended to see the documents leaked.

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