us report on russian hacking

[Dewayne Geraghty]

It is useful for us to be ahead of the issues that we will be asked to
comment on, and advise our clients & friends.  If Julian's email is read
carefully, it is not a political statement.

US Cert did need to communicate the issue, but did not need to attribute
any nation as instigator (or threat).  Though US-Cert's apparatus seems
to be unreliable as this was (& should have been) a critical issue,
particularly for SMI users in Feb, 2017 (#1)

Did it need to be in freebsd-hackers?  Perhaps, though I suspect
freebsd-security might be better?

Thanks Igor for the csoonline reference, as background/context its
helpful.  Though I did laugh at 'don’t call it a vulnerability, but a
“protocol misuse issue.”'  (Hello George?  Hello, is that you, George
Orwell?)

Kind (g)regards.  :)

#1: Refer to
https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/content/CiscoSecurityAdvisory/cisco-sa-20170214-smi
(indirectly from Igor's earlier email)
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Influence national support against IP address spoofing (pretending to be someone else), refer: http://www.bcp38.info/index.php/Main_Page