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Payback? Russia Gets Hacked, Revealing Putin Aide's Secrets (nbcnews.com)
Ukrainian activists have compromised 2,337 messages in the Microsoft Outlook accounts of two assistants to a top aide of Vladimir Putin. An anonymous Slashdot reader quotes NBC News:
A Ukrainian group calling itself Cyber Hunta has released more than a gigabyte of emails and other material from the office of one of Vladimir Putin's top aides, Vladislav Surkov, that show Russia's fingerprints all over the separatist movement in Ukraine. While the Kremlin has denied the relationship between Moscow and the separatists, the emails show in great detail how Russia controlled virtually every detail of the separatist effort in the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine, which has torn the country apart and led to a Russian takeover of Crimea...
"This is a serious hack," said Maks Czuperski, head of the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council, which has searched through the email dump and placed selected emails online. "We have seen so much happen to the United States, other countries at the hands of Russia," said Czuperski. "Not so much to Russia. It was only a question of time that some of the anonymous guys like Cyber Hunta would come to strike them back."
A senior U.S. intelligence official told NBC News that the U.S. "had no role" in the breach -- but when asked if the material was authentic, replied there was "nothing to indicate otherwise."
"This is a serious hack," said Maks Czuperski, head of the Digital Forensic Research Lab of the Atlantic Council, which has searched through the email dump and placed selected emails online. "We have seen so much happen to the United States, other countries at the hands of Russia," said Czuperski. "Not so much to Russia. It was only a question of time that some of the anonymous guys like Cyber Hunta would come to strike them back."
A senior U.S. intelligence official told NBC News that the U.S. "had no role" in the breach -- but when asked if the material was authentic, replied there was "nothing to indicate otherwise."
> I know we heard various things on this, but I seriously doubt we can ever be certain about who shot down an aircraft over a region in civil war.
This has been pretty conclusively settled. Either your misinformed or have an axe to grind.
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You mean, other than than Girkin bragging about the shootdown on VKontakte? Or the photo of the BUK battery with one missile missing.
Ukraine banned commercial only from flying low (below 32000 ft) because there was no suspicion Russia would provide their troops with weaponry useful only against planes with no direct combat roles, as those troops were thinly disguised as "not active duty soldiers".
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
And there's the Russian troll. How's St. Petersburg? The weather getting chilly over there?
A commercial flight had flown over the exact same area several hours before without incident. Since the Russians hadn't had the Buk missile system in place at that time the flight flew on its way without incident.
Once the Buk system was in place Russian troops, with the help of their terrorist allies, shot down MH-17. They bragged about shooting down a "Ukrainian" plane, even posted videos of themselves celebrating the act. Their joyous phone calls and postings on social media were also recorded.
Only after they realized they had shot down a commercial airliner did they then frantically try to deny they're the ones who shot it down. They tried to remove their videos and postings but copies had already been made. When the plane fell to the ground the Russians and their terrorist allies then disturbed the crime scene by going through the passengers personal belongings, including taking people's credit cards and cash.
To further try and cover up their crime they refused access to the Dutch investigators for several days.
Unfortunately for the Russians, all the evidence pointed to them shooting the plane down, including pictures of the Buk system which came into Ukraine with all its tubes filled, then leaving immediately after the shoot down with at least one empty tube.
This video shows MH-17 falling to the ground after the shooting, being filmed by either a terrorist or Russian troop. Also, near the end of the video, at the 6:25 mark, a recording of a Russian newscaster reporting on the shoot down and stating the terrorists had shot the plane down. Since you speak Russian you will be able to understand her words and may even recognize her from your daily propaganda newscasts.
Of course you'll deny what she's saying but it doesn't matter. The world knows the truth. Russia is supporting the terrorists in Ukraine and Russia was involved with, if not responsible for, the shooting down a civilian airliner.
We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Really? Here, let me help you out with that.
Continuing...
Have some nice charts
Anyway, as for this hack: I actually doubt this was the US. One, the US generally gives "won't confirm or deny" statements in situations like this, rather than outright denial. Second, Ukraine has an awful lot of computer talent on their own, and all the motive in the world. A lot of people in the US don't realize that the industry that's booming the most in Ukraine right now is IT; they're a popular outsourcing destination for Europe.
"He's a god; it'll take more than one shot." â" Lady Eboshi, Mononoke Hime
Except that Merkel is not a leftist, at least for European standards. She heads a centre-right coalition with strong Christian roots. This given, she's probably more on the left of the political spectrum than Hillary Clinton, but that's because the US political system is strongly shifted towards the right.
Re, late term abortion: just over 1% of abortions are late term. Of these, the overwhelming majority are due to severe fetal deformities/other issues - commonly fatal. I ask people to put themselves in the mother's situation. You're pregnant, most of the way through your pregnancy and you receive the most devastating news you could get. Perhaps your child's brain never developed. Perhaps their lungs are deformed, and your only experience with your child will be watching them gasp and suffocate before they die. These are the real-world situations mothers face when having to make the decision about a late-term abortion. Random combinations of genes don't always play nicely. Meanwhile, you're still pregnant. You've still got people coming up, smiles on their faces, "Oh, when's the baby due? I bet you're so excited!", and having to explain to them every time that your child will die at birth.
What's the purpose of dragging it out? To make the mother suffer? To make the child suffer?
Another misconception is that late term abortions are D&E. They almost never are. Not only is it medically preferable to induce labour whenever the uterus is capable of it, but there comes a point where D&E isn't even a realistic medical possibility. If an induced miscarriage leads to a potentially viable child - evaluated by the same medical standards as for non-induced delivery - by law doctors are required to perform any life-saving procedures, within the same decisionmaking confines.
The Trump view of people "ripping babies" out of uteruses at "nine months" for no reason and killing them isn't even remotely close to the actuality. It's a unicorn. To be fair, Clinton misstated it also, describing the life of the mother as being a common cause for late-term abortion (it isn't).
Anyway, I think I've accidentally derailed things a bit here, and should apologize for that.
Sweden, eh? Iceland is my home - if you move, welcome to the Nordic club. :) Today's actually our election day here, and we may end up with a Pirate-headed government. I know the guy who's one of the most likely PM candidates if the pirates end up leading a coalition government; I think most Slashdotters would love him. Worked first setting up fab labs around the world and infrastructure for sharing medical/educational info in poor countries, then spent the past several years working on a project to datamine government reports to root out indications of secret diversion of money (corruption, weapons smuggling, things of that nature).
"He's a god; it'll take more than one shot." â" Lady Eboshi, Mononoke Hime