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Aurora Attackers Were Looking For Google's Surveillance Database
An anonymous reader writes "When in early 2010 Google shared with the public that they had been breached in what became known as the Aurora attacks, they said that the attackers got their hands on some source code and were looking to access Gmail accounts of Tibetan activists. What they didn't make public is that the hackers have also accessed a database containing information about court-issued surveillance orders that enabled law enforcement agencies to monitor email accounts belonging to diplomats, suspected spies and terrorists. Whether this was the primary goal of the attacks as well as how much information was exfiltrated is unknown. current and former U.S. government officials interviewed by the Washington Post say that the database in question was possibly accessed in order to discover which Chinese intelligence operatives located in the U.S. were under surveillance."
"exfiltrate" ??? We've got sum miltary lingo here!
Is this some interesting "in house"/"in country" propaganda being dropped into the USA by our own military's psych ops teams? Who uses a word like "exfiltrate" so often?
Exfiltrate defined as 1. (military) To withdraw troops surreptitiously from a dangerous position [on wiktionary]
Extraction (military) redirected from exfiltrated: In military tactics, extraction (also exfiltration or exfil), is the process of removing personnel when it is considered imperative that they be immediately relocated out of a hostile environment and taken to a secure area.
So is this a "poseur" pretending to use military lingo and add an air of "military intrigue" and "international espionage" to the story, or is it a pretense of a "slip of the tongue" so that people think some military type accidentally let some patois and lingo slip through that identifies the authenticity of this,mein Mann, give this Shizz some street cred in the Hizzouse !!
It's a false flag play on the field! We've got a false flag play on the field! Are there two or three levels of misdirection involved? Place your bets, gentle-people-and-citizens!