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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."
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Reports state that Vladislav Surkov has been seen en route to Siberia.
Everything I write is lies, read between the lines.
I approve of governments hacking each other and sharing each other's dirty little secrets with the public. Adversarial systems work well in the service of justice and honesty.
I hope someone hacks Merkel's and May's E-mails too and publishes them. Unfortunately, the Germans are likely too careful to let that happen.
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