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Hackers Have Targeted Both the Trump Organization And Democrat Election Data (arstechnica.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Two recent news stories give new prominence to politically-motivated data breaches. Friday the Wall Street Journal reported that last year Guccifer 2.0 sent 2.5 gigabytes of Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee election data to a Republican operative in Florida, including their critical voter turnout projections. At the same time ABC News is reporting that the FBI is investigating "an attempted overseas cyberattack against the Trump Organization," adding that such an attack would make his network a high priority for government monitoring.
"In the course of its investigation," they add, "the FBI could get access to the Trump Organization's computer network, meaning FBI agents could possibly find records connected to other investigations." A senior FBI official (now retired) concedes to ABC that "There could be stuff in there that they [the Trump organization] do not want to become part of a separate criminal investigation."
It seems like everyone's talking about the privacy of their communications. Tonight the Washington Post writes that Trump's son-in-law/senior advisor Jared Kushner "discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump's transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports." And Friday Hillary Clinton was even quoted as saying, "I would have won had I not been subjected to the unprecedented attacks by Comey and the Russians..."
"In the course of its investigation," they add, "the FBI could get access to the Trump Organization's computer network, meaning FBI agents could possibly find records connected to other investigations." A senior FBI official (now retired) concedes to ABC that "There could be stuff in there that they [the Trump organization] do not want to become part of a separate criminal investigation."
It seems like everyone's talking about the privacy of their communications. Tonight the Washington Post writes that Trump's son-in-law/senior advisor Jared Kushner "discussed the possibility of setting up a secret and secure communications channel between Trump's transition team and the Kremlin, using Russian diplomatic facilities in an apparent move to shield their pre-inauguration discussions from monitoring, according to U.S. officials briefed on intelligence reports." And Friday Hillary Clinton was even quoted as saying, "I would have won had I not been subjected to the unprecedented attacks by Comey and the Russians..."
They were kind of acting like traitors whether Russia was involved or not. Wasn't there something about putting a wrecking ball through America?
To be honest this whole Russia story is going to fall apart and be shown to be another load of crap.
What do you mean "is going to fall apart" ?
It already fell apart a long time ago now The media and Democrats know it too. What they cant do is stop talking about it, because if they did someone might really start talking about why the Democrats really just got wiped out.
"His name was James Damore."
Nope, but they're doing a good job of destroying his presidency, which will serve the national, indeed international good. It may piss Putin off, but that's fine, judging by the push back in the last few European elections, Brexit and Trump is likely to be the extent of the damage he has wreaked on the West. It's a pretty impressive accomplishment, but all it's really going to do is either force Trump to adopt an even stronger anti-Russian stance than Clinton would have, or see him removed from office.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.