re: Associated Press Issues Correction For Six Months of Russian #FakeNews Reporting

What needs to happen now is an investigation into how they decided that certain IP addresses were indicators of an attack and broadcast that out to all the states cyber security teams protecting the election databases.

The reason I say that is that this is not an indicator of attack. These IP's are easily masked so that if an attacker is consistently using them, it's so that they can be seen. In the case of the one's Homeland sent out, they were seen visiting most of the Sec of State or election websites for most of the states but that's it. They were simply in the logs as having visited. They weren't trying to penetrate.

Quite the coincidence that something even the newest script kiddie would know how to do, proxy out to another IP address via VPN or various other ways to mask themselves, suddenly muh russians couldn't be bothered, and then they went and visited all the websites with that IP address?

bullshite. Whoever used those intended to be seen in the logs so that someone else could sell this story. And the whole thing was agreed to by Homeland Security and the FBI who sent out these IP's as something to search for.

That right there is where this investigation needs to go. Because somebody high up in those organizations did that intentionally knowing it meant nothing. Find them and ask them why.