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John McAfee Thinks North Korea Hacked Dyn, and Iran Hacked the DNC (csoonline.com)

"The Dark Web is rife with speculation that North Korea is responsible for the Dyn hack" says John McAfee, according to a new article on CSO: McAfee said they certainly have the capability and if it's true...then forensic analysis will point to either Russia, China, or some group within the U.S. [And] who hacked the Democratic National Committee? McAfee -- in an email exchange and follow up phone call -- said sources within the Dark Web suggest it was Iran, and he absolutely agrees. While Russian hackers get more media attention nowadays, Iranian hackers have had their share... "The Iranians view Trump as a destabilizing force within America," said McAfee. "They would like nothing more than to have Trump as President....

"If all evidence points to the Russians, then, with 100% certainty, it is not the Russians. Anyone who is capable of carrying out a hack of such sophistication is also capable, with far less effort than that involved in the hack, of hiding their tracks or making it appear that the hack came from some other quarter..."

Bruce Schneier writes that "we don't know anything much of anything" about yesterday's massive DDOS attacks. "If I had to guess, though, I don't think it's China. I think it's more likely related to the DDoS attacks against Brian Krebs than the probing attacks against the Internet infrastructure..." Earlier this month Krebs had warned that source code had been released for the massive DDOS attacks he endured in September, "virtually guaranteeing that the Internet will soon be flooded with attacks from many new botnets powered by insecure routers, IP cameras, digital video recorders and other easily hackable devices."

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  1. Re:But but but by PopeRatzo · · Score: 2, Informative

    Well its better for the NSA to publicly pretend to not have the emails so that when clinton is president they have something to extort her with.

    Wikileaks has now released FIFTEEN tranches of thousands of emails each and there's been absolutely nothing extortion-worthy in any of them.

    Conspiracy theories are conspiracy theories. You'd think after 30 years, people would give up making up shit about Hillary Clinton. It just ends up making you look even more stupid. Assange, Wikileaks and the GOP have damaged their own reputations permanently over Hillary and they never seem to learn.

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  2. Re:Fuck Off McAfee! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    Six measures Trump vows to take during first 100 days as president:

    1. "A Constitutional Amendment to impose term limits on all members of Congress."
    2. "A hiring freeze on all federal employees."
    3. "A requirement that for every new federal regulation, 2 existing regulations must be eliminated."
    4. "A 5-year ban on White House and Congressional officials becoming lobbyists after they leave government."
    5. "A lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying on behalf of a foreign government."
    6. "A complete ban on foreign lobbyists raising money for American elections."

    Oh yeah, compleeeete insanity /s

    The whole stinking system is corrupt and here's finally someone who says they're going to do something about it. No wonder the establishment is in full-on panic mode and is doing everything in their power to sway public sentiment against him: Lying, vote rigging, smear campaigns, media collusion, manipulation of public polling results, incitement of violence at his rallies, suspiciously convenient victims crawling out of woodwork to accuse him of crimes only now.

    It's only a matter of time before they get so desperate that they attempt the unthinkable. If he wins, they'll actually have to face an unrigged justice system, and they are absolutely terrified of that.