Alaniz, Carlos

Mr. Wisner

World History

1st Period

12/13/16

The Perfect Weapon: How Russian

Cyberpower Invaded the U.S.
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/13/us/politics/russia-hack-election-dnc.html?ref=politics

Key Vocabulary from the Article (Define at least 4).

Cyberespionage - A use of a computer to withdraw confidential information.

Watergate - Agate of a town
Reluctance - unwillingness to do something
Purloined - steal

Summary of the Event (at least 3 major points; each point will have its own paragraph)

Recently confidential emails and information was obtained by a group of cyberespionage

or hackers if you will.This certain group of hackers have been tampering with federal information
for over 2 year with the FBI trying to put a stop to them.The FBI named this group The dukes
who are secret agents allied with russians.
The first threat from the dukes was a warfare campaign that was disturbed that consisted
the 2016 presidential election. It started off as a small conference to gather information, then the
conference outraged to threats aimed towards the presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and tip
the election to the opposing candidate Donald Trump.
The dukes which are russian allies have been roaming in the committees networks and
chats and have done so for years now with the FBI barely finding out. The invasion of top secret
information by the russians caused the FBI to gradually increased the security in the committees
they have which also leaves them wide eyed to the russian hackers.The message that the FBI
is trying to portray is that they are putting a stop to this leakage of confidential information such
as Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman whose person email account was hacked months later
of the incident with Hillary Clinton and the deleted emails.
Your Opinion of the Event (at least 3 sentences).
In my opinion I find this political article interesting. I liked this article because of the information
that keeps me up to date with current events that help me grasp my political system better. I
also liked this article because it gives us an overlook on how secretive our government is
towards wethepeople.

Relate your Event to a Historical Event (compare and contrast with current event).
another famous American election scandal, it started with a break-in at the D.N.C. The first
time, 44 years ago at the committees old offices in the Watergate complex, the burglars planted
listening devices and jimmied a filing cabinet. This time, the burglary was conducted from afar,
directed by the Kremlin, with spear-phishing emails and zeros and ones. The ways this different
by the technology which was in the current event hackers used computers to snatch secret
information and the old event was listening devices hidden in cabinets. The way these events
are alike is an opposing rival tried to illegally achieve top secret information.

Relate your Event to the a Theme (at least 3 sentences). SEE BACK FOR THEMES

This current event was a political structure themed article that illustrated nationalism by the FBI
creating a better security system and bounties for threats toward our government. This article
also shows examples of revolt in a way of the russians revolting by means of hacking our
government. This article also has characteristics of expansion , because the FBI decided that
they had enough so they expanded their boundaries of security to keep spies away.

Questions You Have About the Event (4).

The questions I have are very few due to this article pellucidly portraying the situation on the
event, also considering i don't know much about our political system.
THEMES:

1.Cultural Interaction 2.Political Structures

o Religions o State-building, expansion, and conflict
o Belief systems, philosophies, and ideologies o Empires
o Science and technology o Nations and nationalism
o The arts and architecture o Revolts and revolutions

3.Economic Structures 4.Social Structures

o Agricultural and pastoral production o Gender roles and relations
o Trade and commerce o Family and kinship
o Labor systems o Racial and ethnic constructions
o Industrialization o Social and economic classes
o Economic theories

5.Human-Environment Interaction
o Disease
o Migration & patterns of settlement
o Population growth
o Technology