If Russia has root access to the most important US Government computers, and has potentially installed many backdoors or trojans. What is to stop those trojans from wiping the disks?
> What is to stop those trojans from wiping the disks?
Because they want to do something creative and clever with those breached systems, instead of of just recursively deleting everything, which would be the best thing to do IMHO.
With sticks and stones? They've been inside the nuclear defence computers for months.
With sanctions? When the government may just stop working altogether for a year or more?