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Snowden Doc Shows NSA Blamed Russia For Hack of Murdered Journalist (thehill.com)
The National Security Agency (NSA) knew that the Russian government hacked the email account of a prominent journalist the year before she was killed in Moscow, documents published by The Intercept show. The 2006 murder of longtime Kremlin critic Anna Politkovskaya -- who was gunned down in the elevator of her apartment complex -- is widely believed to have been a contract killing. Politkovskaya was a noted critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and it has long been suspected that the murder was carried out on his orders. From a report: The NSA compiled an internal file on Politkovskaya, which was exposed as part of the Edward Snowden leaks. Much of the document is unclassified and public, except for one top-secret segment: "Russian Federal Intelligence Services (probably FSB) are known to have targeted the webmail account of the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya," the passage reads. "On 5 December 2005, RFIS initiated an attack against the account annapolitkovskaia@US Provider1, deploying malicious software which is not available in the public domain. It is not known whether this attack is in any way associated with the death of the journalist."
...Hillary is pretty similar to Putin then.
Gad we dodged THAT bullet!
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Vladimir Putin is a clone of Hitler
seems Obama wants to stir as much anti Russian sentiment as he can before he joins the trash heap and make it as difficult as possible for Trump. I am very much anti trump but what Obama and Co are doing at the moment is fucking appalling.
https://theintercept.com/2016/12/29/top-secret-snowden-document-reveals-what-the-nsa-knew-about-previous-russian-hacking/
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(TS//SI//REL TO USA, AUS, CAN, GBR, NZL) Russian Federal Intelligence Services (probably FSB) are known to have targeted the webmail account of the murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. On 5 December 2005, RFIS initiated an attack against the account annapolitkovskaia@US Provider1, by deploying malicious software which is not available in the public domain. It is not known whether this attack is in any way associated with the death of the journalist. [1]
What the NSA appears to know is that the Russians targeted the journalist's email account using malware that it believed was not in the public domain.
But teh internal wiki itself is a little problematic:
Unfortunately, in the case of this wiki there’s no indication of exactly what sort of SIGINT was collected with regard to Politkovskaya, or how it incriminated Russian intelligence — all we have is the allusion to the evidence, not the evidence. The NSA declined to comment.
TheHill article is terrible because it draws from alleged and unproven information produced by private security firms like Crowdstrike, assumes that information is factual, and then merges that with a sliver of NSA information coming from a internal wiki (!) that was released with the Snowden docs. You wanna see fake news? This is it.
Seriously Obama you are starting to make Trump look sane. The last thing the world needs is a new cold war, never thought I would say it but Trump can't come soon enough before you do any more damage, I can only assume you or your party has big financial interests that are not supported by friendly relations with Russia.
... that now owns the White House.
We are truly living in interesting times.
Well, after being a daily user of this website for almost 15 years I have to give it up. I took a break during the heat of the election season because the comment sections had gotten over heated and partisan. ... came back today to give it another chance and see the first comment in this thread...Oh well.
Thanks for the memories slashdot. Truely.
The intelligent discussions seem to have disappeared. Best wishes.
I gotta say that the level of anti-Russian xenophobia is continuing hitting ever higher levels of stupid. NSA alleges that somebody hacked into some journalists account.... 11 years ago. Shocking stuff.
No real news here: as in many countries, domestic intelligence monitors opponents, and there is nothing more, as the classified stuff says:
It is not known whether this attack is in any way associated with the death of the journalist.
Gravewax, you obviously want to spin this as a Trump story when it is not. You obviously are trying to promote Trump as if he would handle this better and he would not.
When Trump shares names of Russia dissidents to Putin (which Putin will pretend are terrorists) and Putin kills them, will you defend Trump?
What if those dissidents act in the interests of the US? Would you defend the speech murder then?
What if those dissidents live in America? Would you defend Trump then?
What if those dissidents ARE American living in America, will you defend Trump then?
Putin had a dissident killed for saying thing Putin didn't like. Obama recalled a diplomat, you defend Putin the murderer.
Putin invades a neighbour, kills 10,000 plus people. Obama imposes sanctions, you defend Putin the murderer.
Putin hacks your elections, puts his puppet into power. Obama releases the details of the hack. You defend Putin the murderer.
No, Anna Politkovskaya said things that upset Putin, and Putin hacked her emails and had her killed.
And Seth Rich was robbed and shot on his way home, and you pretend it was a big Hillary Clinton conspiracy and pretend he secretly revealed the DNC emails.
But we know how the DNC emails were obtains. The NSA details how the hack was done, it was not Seth as you wish it was, you are simply smearing a dead man for political talking point:
https://www.us-cert.gov/sites/default/files/publications/JAR_16-20296A_GRIZZLY%20STEPPE-2016-1229.pdf
The hacked DNC emails were used as basis for propaganda, and the hacked RNC emails have been kept back for use later. And you want to defend Putin the murderer/hacker, because you view him as being Trump's boss, and you support Trump and so support Putin killing dissidents.
On this we agree, Putin is Trump's boss. Trump even quotes Putin like you'd quote your boss:
"Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Dec 23: Vladimir Putin said today about Hillary and Dems: "In my opinion, it is humiliating. One must be able to lose with dignity." So true!"
When you defend "Trump' and attack 'Hillary' on every Putin story you are simply confirming what the opposition already knows, that Trump is a Putin puppet. And we're waiting to see how Trump tries to defend Putin's hack of the US election, I guess he has to wait for his talking points in co-ordination with the Russian propaganda planners.
You'll note *I* fairly presented all sides of the argument rather than posting a biased link - whereas YOU want us to believe one particular thing.
I merely lead people to research and decide what they think is correct.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
"deploying malicious software which is not available in the public domain"
What the heck does that mean? Does this mean the hacking tools don't have a GPL or similar license that grants free use? Or not commonly used by hackers? If these tools have been deployed to machines, I am sure someone has picked them up and modified them. It's like the "I Love You" worm. It was quickly modified by many.
But how many individuals has our government hacked, listened in on, and killed?