Dont think there is any doubt Russian (and Chinese) hackers completely own most US infrastructure. Only need visit a few Russian hacking forums to see that. It "was easy" because the NSA put so much effort into making systems insecure. (Have the US government replaced those Juniper routers yet?)
The only "doubt" is whether or not they are working for their state or just condoned by their state.
Plus a big chunk of playing to public opinion because it's heresy to imply let alone state as fact that Russian or Chinese offensive comp sci is better than US defensive comp sci. Even though, in your hearts, you all know it to be true.
Please stop posting unsubstantive comments here, and please also stop posting inflammatory comments about divisive topics. We've asked you this several times before.
such studies inevitably biased to find failures tho.
successes rarely get written up. so finding details on them is much harder.
also depends what you mean by fail.
if fail means "ran over budget and hit loads of unexpected problems" then yeah, most probably do "fail".
if fail means "shut down prematurly and abandoned without hope" then afaik, your only really talking about stuff by google and microsoft. most other software houses would fail with their software. and plenty are still arond from the 90s.
intel. ibm. apple... not so much real fail, for example.
My other post is flagged and downvoted by well, yeah, I'll keep it civil despite them.
But the point was, The russian hacker forums are orders of magnitude better than anything offered in English, and virtually every single one has made no secret (other than you need to read Russian) that they were working hard all year to get Trump "elected". From spreading rumours, distributing any dirt they could elicit, to boots on the ground playing with the voting machines. There was even talk of cash incentives from George Soros and Peter Thiel.
WaPo and NYT undoubtably have journalists that both read Russian and Frequent such forums. But it will be a while before they get the courage to go public with just how much US infrastructure is now completely pwned by the Ruskies. RNC and DNC only made headlines because some of the haul got sent to wikileaks aka FVEY.
My personal opinion is "America" deserves it for all the effort they put into making systems insecure.
I wonder if deminishing "net neutrality" will be "yet another nail" in the copyright industries coffin.
The closest analogy I can think of to a historic non neutral network is AOL. And we (should) all know how that worked out.