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Re: The Russians did it.

Postby grzegorz on Wed Jul 27, 2016 4:51 pm

chud wrote:The people who say the Russians did it are probably the same people who said, "My dog ate my homework" growing up. ;D


My dog ate my homework growing up.

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Re: The Russians did it.

Postby Taste of Death on Wed Jul 27, 2016 5:12 pm

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Re: The Russians did it.

Postby grzegorz on Thu Jul 28, 2016 2:16 am

Funny how people are ridiculing the idea yet Trump held a press conference for this very reason said it's probably China.
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Re: The Russians did it.

Postby grzegorz on Thu Jul 28, 2016 11:38 am

RUSSIA INVITES DONALD TRUMP TO CRIMEA

http://www.newsweek.com/russia-invites- ... mea-484892
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Re: The Russians did it.

Postby KEND on Thu Jul 28, 2016 2:01 pm

RUSSIANS? BEWARE

THE HACKER

This morning, Wednesday, May 25, 2016, the Romanian hacker who claimed he easily breached Hillary Clinton’s personal email server has officially finalized a plea deal with the FBI and U.S. Attorney.
Marcel Lehel Lazar, the 44-year-old hacker also known as “Guccifer,” appeared in Federal Court in Virginia this morning, and changed his plea to “Guilty,” indicating that a deal providing for cooperation with the FBI and U.S. Attorney had been reached. It is now expected that Guccifer will testify against Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in the event that Secretary Clinton is indicted.
This morning, Guccifer plead “Guilty” to the charge of “compromising Clinton aide Sidney Blumenthal’s AOL account,” which is one of the nine charges against him. Guccifer will now be able to testify that Secretary Clinton’s use of a personal server put sensitive information outside secure government channels and made it accessible to foreign hackers.
Guccifer first gave indications he wanted to cooperate with the U.S. government in mid-April, during an interview with American cable media. Guccifer, in a subsequent discussion, said he was working on a plea deal – he then suspended media contact earlier this month.
On Monday, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office, in the Eastern District of Virginia, confirmed that a “Change of Plea” Hearing was scheduled for Lazar (Guccifer) on Wednesday morning. In fact, the “Change of Plea” Hearing took place this morning, exactly as anticipated. Guccifer originally had pled “Not Guilty” to the nine-count indictment when he was extradited to the U.S.
Guccifer has now formally pled “GUILTY” to only some of the charges.
It has not been publicly confirmed that the deal reached has a provision for cooperating with federal authorities, and whether that has anything to do with the investigation into Secretary Clinton’s exclusive use of a private email server for government business while Secretary of State, but that seems to this Blogger to be a fait accompli.
“[Secretary Clinton’s] gross negligence allowed this material to get out to an adversary,” a knowledgeable source said. “Through her communications with Blumenthal, [Secretary Clinton] contributed exposure and risk.”

Christian Times Newspaper has learned that Guccifer, the Romanian hacker currently being held on charges for hacking Hillary Clinton’s personal email server, has been found in his Virginia jail cell, dead of an apparent suicide.
Guccifer, also known as Marcel Lazar Lehel, was extradited to the United States to face charges after openly admitting to repeatedly hacking Hillary Clinton’s email server. This claim occurred in the midst of an FBI probe that was concluded this morning by Director Comey.
A hacker with the handle “Guccifer 2.0” claimed responsibility for hacking into the server of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and posted documents, including oppositional research on Donald Trump and a list of high priced donors to DNC, on Wednesday, June 15.
“Guccifer 2.0” wrote that more documents were on the way and that he gave them to the dogwhistle group Wikileaks.
The documents were originally leaked by the media outlet Gawker on Wednesday afternoon. A WordPress document appeared online with selected documents, along with a rebuke to earlier reports by security firm, CrowdStrike, that Russian hacking groups were responsible.
It is unclear who is behind “Guccifer 2.0,” but the name is an apparent reference to Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar’s handle “Guccifer.” Lazar is a notorious hacker who recently pled guilty to charges of identity theft and unauthorized access to protected computers and has claimed that he hacked into Hillary Clinton’s email server in an interview with NBC last month.
He is currently in a Virginia prison awaiting prosecution.
“Guccifer 2.0” wrote in the WordPress document that breaking into the DNC’s server was “easy, very easy” and said that there were more documents to be leaked through the group Wikileaks who Guccifer 2.0 said will “publish them soon.”
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange stated in an interview to ITV via video link on June 12 from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London that there were forthcoming publications with “enough information” to indict Hillary Clinton.
Assange is being arbitrary detained in the embassy to avoid extradition to Sweden over a rape claim, which he denies.
Wikileaks also tweeted a link to the WordPress document.
The documents focus on a report called “The Donald Trump Report” which is dated December 19, 2015 and appears to be 200+ page playbook on Hillary Clinton’s strategy to beat Trump in the general election, and a biographical profile about the presumptive nominee.
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Re: The Russians did it.

Postby grzegorz on Thu Jul 28, 2016 2:25 pm

Romanians, Russians, same thing.

The Daily Beast is a hardcore conservative website. This is what they're reporting.

UNMASKED07.26.16 9:43 AM ET

‘DNC Hacker’ Unmasked: He Really Works for Russia, Researchers Say

The hacker who claimed to compromise the DNC swore he was Romanian. But new research shows he worked directly for the Vladimir Putin government in Moscow.


The hacker who claims to have stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee and provided them to WikiLeaks is actually an agent of the Russian government and part of an orchestrated attempt to influence U.S. media coverage surrounding the presidential election, a security research group concluded on Tuesday.

The researchers, at Arlington, Va.-based ThreatConnect, traced the self-described Romanian hacker Guccifer 2.0 back to an Internet server in Russia and to a digital address that has been linked in the past to Russian online scams. Far from being a singly, sophisticated hacker, Guccifer 2.0 is more likely a collection of people from the propaganda arm of the Russian government meant to deflect attention away from Moscow as the force behind the DNC hacks and leaks of emails, the researchers found.

ThreatConnect is the first known group of experts to link the self-proclaimed hacker to a Russian operation, amidst an ongoing FBI investigation and a presidential campaign rocked by the release of DNC emails that have embarrassed senior party leaders and inflamed intraparty tensions turning the Democratic National Convention. The emails revealed that party insiders plotted ways to undermine Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid.

“These are bureaucrats, not sophisticated hackers,” Rich Barger, ThreatConnect’s chief intelligence officer, told The Daily Beast. In blog posts and in interviews with journalists, Barger said, Guccifer 2.0 has made inconsistent remarks and given a version of how he penetrated the DNC networks that technically don’t make sense. For instance, the hacker claims to have used a software flaw that didn’t exist until December 2015 in order to break into the DNC networks last summer.

In an interview with Motherboard in June, the hacker also refused to speak in Romanian, another indication that he wasn’t who he claimed to be.

ThreatConnect also found that Guccifer 2.0 was attempting to mask his true location, in Russia, by communicating through an Internet service based in France. Such masking is not uncommon in government-sponsored operations, nor is it particularly difficult to accomplish.

The researchers concluded that Guccifer 2.0 is actually an “apparition created under a hasty Russian [denial and deception] campaign” to influence political events in the U.S.

“Maintaining a ruse of this nature within both the physical and virtual domains requires believable and verifiable events which do not contradict one another. That is not the case here,” the researchers wrote in a blog post. By tracing Guccifer 2.0’s Internet infrastructure, the researchers concluded he—or the group—is “a Russia-controlled platform that can act as a censored hacktivist. Moscow determines what Guccifer 2.0 shares and thus can attempt to selectively impact media coverage, and potentially the election, in a way that ultimately benefits their national objectives.”

That finding matches the political motive that U.S. officials told The Daily Beast they have seen in Russia’s hacking of the DNC. The FBI said on Monday that it was investigating the breach, which a growing number within the Obama administration believe was designed to embarrass Democrats, exacerbate tensions between Hillary Clinton and her former rival Bernie Sanders—as well as his voters—and ultimately to give a boost to Republican nominee Donald Trump.

On Tuesday, President Obama said that while the FBI is investigating, “experts have attributed this to the Russians” and that it was "possible” the leak was designed to help the Trump campaign.

Researchers from cyber security company CrowdStrike have publicly attributed the DNC breach to the work of two known Russian government hacker groups that have also targeted U.S. government agencies, the White House, and American universities. The tactics and techniques in those campaigns match up with forensic evidence gathered from the DNC breach.

ThreatConnect’s findings seem to underscore the extent to which the Russian government, at least initially, wanted to obscure its role in a so-called active measures campaign designed to cause mischief in the U.S. election, said Barger, a former U.S. Army intelligence analyst.

But it’s not clear where in the Russian government, or its sphere of influence, Guccifer 2.0 sits.

WikiLeaks has not identified its source for the DNC emails, even though Guccifer 2.0 claims to have provided them. A representative of the anti-secrecy organization told The Daily Beast on Monday that they were “very pleased with this great scoop in data journalism,” referring to the publication of the DNC emails. “Journalists at many outlets and the general public are all pitching in to understand this wonderful dataset which describes how the DNC really works. Our publication of leaked DNC emails and the many DNC hacks over the last two years are separate incidents and should not be conflated.”

WikiLeaks didn’t respond to Guccifer 2.0’s claims or to accusations from U.S. officials in recent days that the Russian government orchestrated the leak to the group.

In a Skype interview Monday with NBC News, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange rejected suggestions that the Russians were behind the DNC hack, saying the party’s server security was so weak, it could have been hacked by various groups.

“The emails that we have released are different sets of documents to the documents of those [that] people have analyzed,” he told NBC’s Richard Engel.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2 ... s-say.html


Russians, Romanians, same thing...literally.
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Re: The Russians did it.

Postby Steve James on Thu Jul 28, 2016 2:52 pm

The first article came out last May. The FBI had the info before the last hearings.
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Re: The Russians did it.

Postby Steve James on Thu Jul 28, 2016 3:30 pm

Just watch the first minute and a half.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKkKQmbyECw

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Re: The Russians did it.

Postby grzegorz on Thu Jul 28, 2016 10:30 pm

It's funny, I originally posted this as an off handed joke because of my Russians thread (where I took the side of the Ukrainians, obviously). Yet sure enough the conservative newspaper the Washington Post posted this an hour ago also claiming Russians hackers are targeting the Democrats.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... story.html
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Re: The Russians did it.

Postby KEND on Fri Jul 29, 2016 2:35 am

A plot worthy of LeCarre, To quote Churchill: I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma;
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Re: The Russians did it.

Postby KEND on Fri Jul 29, 2016 2:40 am

A thought occurred to me, did he commit suicide or is he in one of those black sites [at the jersey shore, he would break down quickly there]
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Re: The Russians did it.

Postby grzegorz on Sat Jul 30, 2016 2:10 pm

A third attack.

Looks like Trump got what he wanted.
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Re: The Russians did it.

Postby yeniseri on Sun Jul 31, 2016 11:46 am

chud wrote:Oh, give me a break.
Blaming Russia?
Even supposing it was the Russians, doesn’t that just show that it was a bad idea for Hillary to use a personal server in her home?!?

Pathetic.


Hillary's use of personal server did not compromise national secrets in any way, shape or form but she was admonished by the Justice Dept for her use after the fact meaning there was a blanket order that servers of such type and usage was to stop! The timeline(s) should fix the problem and compared to others using similar server, that should be the modus operandi for judgement as opposed to admonishing one but ignoring the rest due to priviledge. If all did it then it is wrong for all!
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Re: The Russians did it.

Postby Dajenarit on Sun Jul 31, 2016 11:57 am

Are these the same people that accused North Korea of hacking Sony?
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Re: The Russians did it.

Postby Michael on Sun Jul 31, 2016 6:48 pm

Dajenarit wrote:Are these the same people that accused North Korea of hacking Sony?

Are you possibly suggesting that one of the founding members of the Axis of Eviltm was not the responsible party for this heinous transgression against copyright law? Or that creating an absurd pretext *cough* Ukraine *cough* by an aggressor that retroactively justifies the aggression in the minds of the propagandized audience was neither a brilliant marketing move nor a successful condemnation of Kim Jong Un by making a horrible movie about his assassination and then blaming him for trying to sabotage it? ;D
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