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Why Trump's cyber is the strongest

Federal Times: Part of the reason for Donald Trump's triumph in the US election was that, as he would say, his cyber was the strongest. In the first social media election, Trump rallied a world's worth of hackers and extreme digital natives to his side. If he can keep that anarchic crowd on board, he'll not only have the world's best cybersecurity, he'll have a cyber army.

All human relationships rely on context. You say different things, to different people, in different ways; that doesn't mean you're lying. But WikiLeaks ripped the context out of the Hillary Clinton campaign, splaying it open like a vivisector, and destroying it in the minds of the press and America. Her own IT guys, meanwhile, clearly led her so wrong that she ended up in the arms of the FBI. And she had nothing to counter the relentless flow of pro-Trump, shareable stories on Facebook.

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