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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
firewall around his servers.
And make Mexico pay for it.
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?
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.
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?
>> Putin only got got his hands on Trump research.... Nothing on Hillary.
There were at least two foreign groups that owned the network. At least one grabbed the Trump material but there's also this rather shocking admission:
"The intruders so thoroughly compromised the DNC’s system that they also were able to read all email and chat traffic, said DNC officials and the security experts."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russian-government-hackers-penetrated-dnc-stole-opposition-research-on-trump/2016/06/14/cf006cb4-316e-11e6-8ff7-7b6c1998b7a0_story.html
Incorrect. No one penetrates Hillary.
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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