US-RU Comms Channels: CyberSec Link

grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com
Tue Jan 3 22:00:01 PST 2017


http://electrospaces.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-cybersecurity-link-used-by-obama.html

Obama used a cybersecurity link for the first time to warn Russia

Shortly before the recent US presidential election, a dedicated
cybersecurity hotline with Moscow was used by president Obama to warn
the Russian government not to interfere with the election process
through hacking operations.

Press reports compared the cybersecurity with the "Red Phone", which
many people believe is used on the Hotline between Washington and
Moscow. That's not true, and also Obama's message seems not to have
been transmitted by phone, but through an e-mail channel which is
maintained by the Nuclear Risk Reduction Center (NRRC).
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