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Russian Government Hackers Penetrated DNC, Stole Opposition Research On Donald Trump (washingtonpost.com)
Russian government hackers penetrated Democratic National Committee's database and stole research on Donald Trump (could be paywalled; alternate source), according to a report on Washington Post. DNC officials and security experts say the hackers were able to read all e-mail and chats in the DNC system. Some of the hackers had been in the DNC system for a year, the report adds. They were expelled from the computer system this past weekend. Russian spies also targeted the computers of Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton and several GOP political action committees. From the report: The intrusions are an example of Russia's interest in the U.S. political system and its desire to understand the policies, strengths and weaknesses of a potential future president -- much as American spies gather similar information on foreign candidates and leaders. The depth of the penetration reflects the skill and determination of the United States' top cyber adversary as Russia goes after strategic targets, from the White House and State Department to political campaign organizations.
(insert Soviet Russia meme here)
Opposition research trumps you?
Dark Reflection
As far as I am aware only the united states admits to cyber espionage.
firewall around his servers.
And make Mexico pay for it.
. . . .they already have all they need on Clinton, from her email server. . . .
The fact that they're looking for dirt on Trump, suggests that they think he might well be elected. . .
You don't think they could imagine more useful purposes to put that information?
Maybe they don't want Obama to know what they know. Maybe they want to wait for HRC to get into the White House (everyone knew she'd be running this year) to blackmail her. The Russians have absolutely zero interest in American justice being served, why would they release it at all?
Bernie was the first to "compromise" data on DNC servers. Did we already forget just how bad some of the DNC data is protected?
https://medium.com/@AmyKDacey/...
Blackmail ? It's amusing, with Clinton as a candidate. But if they have something REALLY damaging, imagine what PRESIDENT Clinton would do to keep it from the public eye.
Of course, then she'd have the problem of Danegeld. . .
When kiddies hack a system, they will brag about on Facebook. When professional spooks hack a system, you will probably never hear of it. If you have access to a great source of information, the best thing to do is to keep quiet about it. In that way, you can keep accessing the information.
Depending on who you talk to, folks will say that Churchill knew that Germany was going to bomb Coventry. He decided not to order extra air defenses, because that would have alerted the Germans that their codes had been cracked.
Toss curve balls, screw balls, and sliders at your enemy to confuse them, and get them chasing their own tails.
In any case, this story stinks like a Cleveland Steamer: The Russians break into a DNC computer to steal info about Donald Trump? Give me a break! What did they steal about the Democratic Party?
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Quote Trump directly.
It must have been something you assimilated. . . .
One comment on the radio is that Clinton had access to names of CIA operatives as part of her duties as head of the State Department, but those names were never identified within the email as an operative, so explicit searching would be difficult. By forwarding these emails to her personal server, and if her personal server was accessed as Guccifer claims it was, the hacker(s) would now have emails containing operative names.
After the fact, the government is releasing emails as part of FOIA requests that are heavily redacted, and the reason on some documents is tagged as "B3 CIA PERS/ORG" indicating the redaction is of a name of a clandestine operative. A hacker with access to the original document can now easily go in and correlate the CIA tagged redacted document, and see the name of the individual who was redacted.
At least 47 documents from her server (to date) have been tagged with this classification.
So, they had access for how long? A year? I don't suppose there's *any* chance that the open access that Bernie's folks looked at - one of the first reports I read, never repeated, was the guy in charge of the 4-person team had them look, to see if Hillary had gotten *their* info.
And then the DNC "cleaned up"?
I now believe *nothing* the DNC says about its computer systems, or security, since if they'd *actually* cleaned up... they would have caught the Russians *then*, not the beginning of May.
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Trump is a big fan of Putin, that's why.
Also, he's expressed admiration towards Kim Jong-Un.
Kind of wacky how a guy who wants to be "the leader of the free world" loves him some authoritarian dictators....
Mr. Hu is not a ninja.
Credit to the DNC and Big Media for spinning this so well. Putin only got got his hands on Trump research.... Nothing on Hillary.
What a load.
ZOMG! Now the Russians know that Trump is racist, sexist, homophobic and Islamophobic. He wants to throw grandma out of the hospital to die on the street, or off a cliff, depending on the topic. At night he hands out fully automatic, laser guided "Assault Guns" with extra-lethal plastic parts to inner city toddlers and mentally unstable Democrats. In his spare time, he is the leader of a secret society of racists known as "the Police" that meets daily to discuss new ways to murder and/or frame innocent black children on their way to church.
Seriously guys, the DNC's "opposition research" is chiseled in stone, and not exactly secret. They just swap out the name at the top.
See that "Preview" button?
Says a Clinton supporter unironically.
It would be pretty stupid for Russia not to look into the major political contenders of their primary adversary regardless whether they might win or not.
It's pretty damned stupid that Russia thinks of the United States (or more accurately, NATO and the West) as their "primary adversary" when they have a near negative birthrate and 1.3 billion neighbors to the east that are far more likely to come looking for Lebensraum.
I understand the historical reasons for Russia to fear the West -- multiple invasions in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries -- but it's 2016; are the people in Moscow really that stuck in the past? To look at the fat and happy citizens of the West and see an existential threat? I don't think the generation that demands "safe zones" from "microaggressions" is terribly likely to launch Operation Barbarossa II.
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
The silver lining is that the DNC may actually be worth penetrating! If the GRU thinks there may be something valuable in there then maybe the DNC actually does something of value.
Incorrect. No one penetrates Hillary.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
No one wants to. Including Bill.
Could someone force the dweeb who set the server up into giving away all the credentials? Definitely, yes.
I'll leave this here.
A lot of noise is made about foreigners buying influence (over US legislators and executives), but we don't hear much about blackmail. Which might mean that it's been very successful. If Wikileaks can find stuff in emails to get people in trouble, certainly the Russians can find stuff in emails with which to blackmail. The beauty of blackmail is that it's the gift that keeps on giving. The more you succumb to it, the more grip the blackmailer has over you.
Hackers broke into the DNC to steal information about their opponent and not their candidate. Now thats some straight up spin. They stole everything that was there but I can guarantee you that they were far more interested in the internal info they had on the DNC candidate. BTW just because the logged-ip addressed point to Russian ip-blocks it doesn't mean that this was done by direction of the Russian government or even that the attack originated in Russia. Using compromised machines under the hackers controll as proxy servers to carry attacks on a 3d party is standard practice. Using machines in countries that are generally considered rivals and are unlikely to cooperate with U.S authorities in an investigation, makes a heck-of-a-lot of sense
Do a little reading and you'll find that the Chinese are busy stealing all of our technology and preparing themselves to take out our infrastructure (power-grid, banking, etc.). On the other front the Russians are actively engaging in political sabotage via all means from hordes of message forum trolls to active hacking. Don't think that the upcoming "Brexit" vote isn't being watched with great interest, and actively promoted by the Russians. I remember a few years ago Putin predicting that we'd be in a civil war here in the states by about now. Don't think for a moment that he doesn't have a bunch of shills working the interwebs for Russian interests in fomenting unrest and discontent right here and now.
And that's why she doesn't have any Presidential Material in her.
| Why they would support Trump I don't know,
It's literally part of the old KGB playbook. Because POTUS Trump would cause friction between US and European NATO allies. Hurting US/Europe alliances is considered a benefit to Russia.
I noticed they collected "Research" on Donald Trump and not intelligence.
You need to look up the definition of "dictator". When people called Shrub a dictator, it was just as wrong then, and I disagreed with it.
Though I'll admit that a populist along the lines of a Trump type could certainly carry it out.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
...Also, I heard he clubs baby seals and bludgeons kitty cats.
Nonsense. He goes clubbing with baby seals.
His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere. - Mark Twain
I thought he got some club pussy...
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?
Why would she have those names? The CIA isn't part of the State Department. If the CIA (or anyone else) is emailing operative's names, the security flaw isn't Clinton's choice of email server, but the emails in the first place.
The CIA is part of the State department. It's the part authorized to do clandestine operations outside the borders of the US.