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Russian Spies Hacked the Olympics and Tried To Make it Look Like North Korea Did it, US Officials Say (washingtonpost.com)
Ellen Nakashima, reporting for the Washington Post: Russian military spies hacked several hundred computers used by authorities at the 2018 Winter Olympic Games in South Korea [Editor's note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source], according to U.S. intelligence. They did so while trying to make it appear as though the intrusion was conducted by North Korea, what is known as a "false-flag" operation, said two U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter. Officials in PyeongChang acknowledged that the Games were hit by a cyberattack during the Feb. 9 Opening Ceremonies but had refused to confirm whether Russia was responsible. That evening there were disruptions to the Internet, broadcast systems and the Olympics website. Many attendees were unable to print their tickets for the ceremony, resulting in empty seats.
i heard it was us spies that made it look like it was russia that made it look like it was north korea
and WHO FUCKNG CARES its the $$$$gimpics
FAKE NEWS! Russia's not to blame! The US lying to distract people from its crimes! VOTE JILL STEIN!
So could the NSA
/. has been pwned.
Russia didn't hack the Olympics. They're banned from these Olympics.
The Olympic Hackers from Russia were responsible.
There was no collusion. NO COLLUSION!
I even believe him this time. ;)
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
They have nothing to gain from it, and throwing a wrench of this kind is not something they are interested in.
America however is frequently throwing wrenches, literally invented the false-flag concept and modus operandi, and have been proven time and again to work like this.
Most likely nothing like this happened, and America is lying as usual, but if a false-flag like this was conducted, it was most likely done my America as well.
If it comes out of the mouth of American agencies, and is targetted against the Middle East and Asia, then it is by default a lie.
I'd genuinely be interested to hear which version of Windows was used on those Olympic computers. Mainly to get some datapoints about how Win 10 is doing against the Russians specifically (let's assume it was through some 0-day, not because of lack of patching).
If they were all XP, then that's understandable. Vista/7, it's been out there long enough where the russkies have picked the vulnerabilities dry and probably have a nice little warchest to choose from.
But for Win 10, if they're picking it apart like a vulture on a dead mule then that's a huge cause for concern given the high (forced) adoption rate by MS over the last few years.
Could explain how they've been so successful penetrating such a large number of American corporate and gov't systems. And perhaps some measure of how long it will be before they successfully take down some of our more important infrastructure that is currently being run on Microsoft products.
What would be a reason for the Russians to do this? Do they really have anything to gain? Do they expect some kind of advantage from instability between the two Korea's?
I'm not buying it.
To Terminate, or not to Terminate, that's the question - SCSIROB
Pretending to be Russians pretending to be North Koreans which all started with NSA operatives trying to make the state resistors to the NWO look bad.
Putin wants military conflict with the US.
So he screws with the Olympics and maybe President Caligula does something stupid. Poof it's Arch Duke Ferdinand...
Or maybe Putin was just looking for porn.
Another consultant who stuck it out.
"We are the Priests, of the Temples of Syrinx..."
Perhaps they were looking for take-out.
It's not your fault -- russians did it. Actually Putin himself, while disguised as Trump. ;-)
The reliable sources on the condition of anynymity confirm this.
For Russian Bot training? They seem to be able to do anything, and are everywhere causing all events! I want to be in the mix! (/s in case someone is that dumb)
Why guess when you can know? Measure!
People working for "US Intelligence" shouldn't be leaking such things.
If the information is correct they are leaking their detection capabilities.
If the information is incorrect they are revealing their weaknesses.
I hope they find the leakers and lock them up.
Anonymous "US officials" and the Washington Post. Now there's a recipe for credibilityNOT.
Hurray, it's bedtime for Bonzo again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
That's probably just CIA using UMBRAGE to fake a Russian hack yer stupid media brainwashed dumb cunt.
Vault 7: CIA's Umbrage Group Faked Russian Hacking
"With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the "fingerprints" of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from."
Many of us have long known that you can spoof and fake the source of digital communications but now we have evidence of the methods for how a branch of the CIA has achieved this.
Vault 7: The Russian Hacking story is over
No convincing evidence of Russian interference in the 2016 election through the Wikileaks releases will ever exist. Nice try FBI, DHS, Obama and "17 intelligence agencies" but you're lying.
Meanwhile in your favorite Fake News Channel:
US Spies Hacked the Olympics and Made it Look Like Russian Spies Did it and Tried To Make it Look Like North Korea Did it.
... I'd hire Russians.
Why must everything be connected to the Internet?
So I'll believe in crypto currencies like Bitcoin.
Exactly the joke I was thinking, needs to be modded up!
That said, I think it is entirely reasonable that Russia did the hack. If only to spit in the eye of the organization that banned them as a nation from competing. I mean so far as I know in the end, all the hacking of "hundreds" of computers ended up doing was shutting down the Wifi for a brief period of time, which is just an annoyance really. Sounds like Russian hacking team practice, pick a target and have some lulzs.
That said, apart of "national" hacking, this very well could be the work of private hacking group for much the same reason (ban us from the games will you!)... As far as the political intrigue and North Korea goes, they seem to be the world wiping boy so if you're going to try and get someone else blamed, seems like the easiest route.
would be more accurate. The same Washington Post which said Hillary had a 98% of winning. Criminally sad news.