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."

Comments

Re:Good!

[Rei]

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).