GRIZZLY STEPPE Continued. What is a Cyber Peer?

I am going to suck-it-in and bypass commenting on Obama's Harvard law review article, at least for today. Why? Because the alleged Russian hacking conversation is far more interesting, laughable and gets more readers for my blog.  

I watched a senate intelligence hearing this morning, chaired by John McCain. The hearing headline was -- Breaking news. The Senate hears testimony from the top 3 members of the intelligence community confirming Russian infrastructure hacking to help Trump win the presidency -- or something like that. McCain still searches for a conspiratorial connection. It can not be that Trump's message simply resonated with Americans.

I watched for about 90 minutes. Each participant read from prepared remarks. No one provided a shred of evidence that confirmed Russian hacking. One person came close to showing some evidence, but demurred because as he said, the details were a matter of national intelligence and could not be disclosed. In other words, the hearing was going nowhere fast.

In perspective, I suspect that 2-3 computer jockeys in a room, found an IP address that was linked through multiple proxies to somewhere, somehow and some person in Russia and the rest is a senate hearing and a 13 page Joint Analysis FBI/Homeland Security Report. According to McCain, Putin orchestrated the hack from a computer at his desk. 

The hearing confirms one thing for me. Cyber warfare and cyber defense is going to be an exploding business opportunity in 2017. The sky is falling and we must build a large net to catch it. Give me a break. America and other countries have had intelligence gathering activities for decades. We have no moral or legal high ground that I am aware of to conflate using the internet to breach sloppy password email address protections by a few American organizations into a full scale cyber war. One of the participants referred to Russia and America as Cyber peers. And I am sure we do not have a few cyber-combatants trying to hack into some email addresses in Russia. 

And while Obama is writing law review articles and McCain is pontificating at senate hearings, Trump is calling company presidents to save jobs and bring manufacturing back to America.

The democrats still do not realize that the train has left the station and some republicans still do not recognize that the train even exists.

Me? I bought my ticket and am looking forward to the ride. Give this story a few more months and the walk-back, by the FBI and Homeland Security, will be a race back to the starting line.  Oh sure, we know there were some email breaches, we just do not know who did it.