I really read every article I look at from Ars Technica.

If you don’t read them, you should.

That said, I don’t read them as much as I should. Compared to the daily drivel I sometimes take in — CNN’s daily blast, for goodness’ sake! TechCrunch! — Ars Technica is technically meaty and deep. It’s substantive.

So when Ars Technica published a long account of how the Russians hacked the American elections in 2016, I read it with interest.

You should, too.

My favorite bit was the patient way the GRU teams worked on spear-phishing attacks until they nailed Podesta’s account. They were then able to operate without interference behind the DNC’s various firewalls for some time, although the DNC’s IT staff — who had originally poo-pooed two-factor authentication (which could possibly have averted some of the phishing attacks) — eventually caught on to them and shut the compromised servers down.

In any case, not the proudest hour for our country.