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More Evidence Ties Alleged DNC Hacker Guccifer 2.0 To Russian Intelligence (techcrunch.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: It may be a while since you've heard the handle "Guccifer 2.0," the hacker who took responsibility for the infamous DNC hack of 2016. Reports from the intelligence community at the time, as well as common sense, pegged Guccifer 2.0 not as the Romanian activist he claimed to be, but a Russian operative. Evidence has been scarce, but one slip-up may have given the game away. An anonymous source close to the U.S. government investigation of the hacker told the Daily Beast that on one single occasion, Guccifer 2.0 failed to log into the usual VPN that disguised their traffic. As a result, they left one honest IP trace at an unnamed social media site.
That IP address, "identified Guccifer 2.0 as a particular GRU officer working out of the agency's headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow," the Daily Beast reported. (The GRU is one of the Russia's security and intelligence organs.) Previous work by security researchers had suggested this, but it's the first I've heard of evidence this direct. Assuming it's genuine, it's a sobering reminder of how fragile anonymity is on the internet -- one click and the whole thing comes crashing down.
That IP address, "identified Guccifer 2.0 as a particular GRU officer working out of the agency's headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow," the Daily Beast reported. (The GRU is one of the Russia's security and intelligence organs.) Previous work by security researchers had suggested this, but it's the first I've heard of evidence this direct. Assuming it's genuine, it's a sobering reminder of how fragile anonymity is on the internet -- one click and the whole thing comes crashing down.
It doesn't matter if they did it. It matters that it happened.
no wonder reddit wont cough up the logs
Only apps can app apps, NOT LUDDITE IPs!
Apps!
What my hands are being covered by my eyes? Funny, I can't see that either.
Yes, we should believe. I rather prefer to believe detailed technical reports like EFF do, with all details, than this bullshit with "well informed anonymous sources" that often turns to be "our imagination".
who has admitted contact with Guccifer 2.0 during the campaign.
The Clinton campaign used an online smear campaign to try to turn Sanders into the candidate whose supports are misogynists. Then Russian intelligence says "hold our vodka, we'll show you what professionals can do."
And the best part? 95% of what they did was dump dirty laundry that would have destroyed her before the primary if the MSM had not been in her pocket. They didn't even have to deep dive into dezinformatsia to undermine her.
Maybe if they'd run a candidate who didn't epitomize her nickname on the right, Felonia Von Pantsuit, they'd have had a tougher target.
Uploaded at 22MB/sec (capital B), or so goes the narrative. That's a nice upload circuit. Why is is suspiciously close to the expected transfer rate of a USB2 drive? Gee I wonder.
Every newbie hacker knows how to reroute his traffic or even (in some cases) make it appear to come from somewhere else. You just claim a "professional hacker" can't pull off what any scriptkiddy manages to do? Masking your IP address is hacking 101.
Please. Give me better evidence than that. Quite bluntly, if I wanted to send you on a wild goose chase, I'd make sure to include one such "blunder".
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But the best news is that I will no longer use the nick Guccifer. I think Keyser Soze has a better ring to it.
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It was Seth Rich, a bernie-bro, and he paid for his truth-telling already.
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Trump's lead lawyer resigned yesterday and four other top law firms refused to represent him.
Assuming we are discussing the same DNC hacking instance.... The evidence shows that this was an inside job. At least the file copies where done locally based on the files creation times because the time offsets between the files wouldn't allow them to be transferred over standard speed internet links.
It's hard to know for sure though until we find out how the intruder was getting in and data out. But... We won't really ever find out for sure. Seems the DNC didn't want the FBI's help on this at the time and contracted the investigation of the breach out to a contractor instead. At this point, the forensic investigation of the equipment is nearly impossible and the conclusions of the contractor suspect.
So.. I'm wondering.. Why do we care about the DNC getting hacked at this point? What difference at this point does it make?
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Trump, stone, GRU, DNC. no other cutouts.
Not just communicating, which might be casual, but also being the first (we know of) to know what's in the wikileaks data ahead of time.
I've been thinking and it seems to me now that Russia did not instigate the hacks...
Russia is a country in which one can hire the facilities of the authorities to perform such hacks as the rule of law is lax.
Ergo Russia may had a vested interest and indeed a motive but the people that used Russian hacking to their advantage were American.
Russia has great hacking capabilities but if you are good at something, why do it for free?! -After all Russia's economy is not doing great, times are rough.
One cannot hire this level of expertise within the US in order to hack sensitive US systems without it having a rather easy trail back to you. So what's a comrade to do?
Hire some Russian hackers (cheaper but just as good) so they carry the risk and blame while you get PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY - eh davarish Trump?
So Russia gets to weaken the US, gets paid for an inside job it would support anyhow, has a man on the inside at the top AND gets to laugh.
Discuss.
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Uploaded at 22MB/sec (capital B), or so goes the narrative. That's a nice upload circuit. Why is is suspiciously close to the expected transfer rate of a USB2 drive? Gee I wonder.
No.
MUST BLAME RUSSIA!!!
Repeat it enough times and you can be a zombified fool, too.
A: One per week.
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Top-level Russian Spy super-hacker just happened to use his Kremlin IP address. Yeah, I bet it happened just like that.
The MSM shat all over Hilary. Moreover without their consistent and favorable coverage of Trump he couldn't have won. By all accounts he got $6 billion of free advertising from them. If it wasn't for them supporting Trump to keep the horse race going she'd be in office.
Now, to be fair if she'd just campaigned in the bloody swing states and took Trump (and the populist sentiment he represents) seriously she'd have won too. America doesn't want the right wing anymore. They _want_ the government to step in and fix things like health care, trade, education and the job market. Trump ran on those things and won. Hilary ran a classic right wing conservative campaign and lost. Sad thing is Trump lied and we're gonna pay for it. But like he said, what da ya got to lose...
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There were 3 different hacks during the election.
1) DNC email hack, looked at by Crowdstrike. This one looked like an inside job, as you pointed out.
2) Podesta email hack, spearfishing attack but his email password was "password". If I remember right, THIS is the hack Guiccifer 2.0 took credit for.
3) Sydney Blumenthal email hack. Happened first, I believe Guiccifer (the original one) did this.
I don't remember anyone claiming Guiccifer 2.0 hacked the DNC, until this story broke yesterday. I do remember them saying he hacked Podesta, which was a separate attack. He may not have even used the spearfishing since the password was easy to guess and that may have been a completely different attack.
Trump dosent need those dotards. He is now going to represent himself and testify in front of Mueller. I was losing faith in him, but with this it is restored.
The professional excellence and utter dishonesty of both the Russian state intelligence apparatus and the American deep state make any informed, verifiable determination impossible. The spooks and their masters are pretty damned good at their obfuscation and disinformation games.
Rather than hitch oneself to a favorite political or ideological bandwagon, I prefer to adhere to a finely-crafted and well-tuned cynicism that demands treating this and every other spy versus spy story as low comedy.
It makes for passable diversion as I read such stories while comfortably relaxing in Diogenes' pithos.
Scruting the inscrutable for over 50 years.
board.
Or so I've read.
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was the leaker.
I wouldn't exactly describe a gaggle of attorneys who feel themselves professionally inadequate to represent the President as a "top" law firm.
the ivans are coming
attacking one of our country's major political institutions? You can argue the DNC shouldn't be a major institution, but the fact is that they are. Yes, our political system needs work, but it's not going to get fixed by hostile foreign powers meddling in it.
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Russia has a long history of telegraphing their intentions.
What I'm saying is that Putin doesn't respect us. And given the results of the last election it's getting harder to argue with the man. Literally as well as figuratively.
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"professionally inadequate"
That's a weird way to write "staying the fuck away from this dumpster fire on a sinking ship because we're not complete fucking morons."
The other part of the story you can check for yourself. i.e. that he was handed off to another agent who speaks much better English. There you have a verifiable item by reading the early and late Guccifer comments, and it passes a quick sanity check.
But also "anonymous sources" seem to be nearly 100% accurate when it comes to Trumps stuff and the WH 100% INaccurate. Remember "Trump plans to sack US HR McMaster", remember all the denials from the Whitehouse? and guess what, he's sacked. It was so well known as true, that it barely registered as news.
And the Steele dossier, I think even the Fox news lying heads know that's real, this guys resignation email hit hard because it was true, if it was false it wouldn't have affected them:
"As a Russia analyst for many years, it also has appalled me that hosts who made their reputations as super-patriots and who, justifiably, savaged President Obama for his duplicitous folly with Putin, now advance Putin's agenda by making light of Russian penetration of our elections and the Trump campaign. Despite increasingly pathetic denials, it turns out that the "nothing-burger" has been covered with Russian dressing all along. And by the way: As an intelligence professional, I can tell you that the Steele dossier rings true--that's how the Russians do things.. The result is that we have an American president who is terrified of his counterpart in Moscow."
That's 100% true, and Fox are 100% sacks of lying shits who'd sell out their country for their sponsor. Hannity you are a fucking lying sack of Putin shit.
Trump dosent need those dotards. He is now going to represent himself and testify in front of Mueller.
I totally agree Trump doesn't need any dotards. Why hire somebody when you're a top ranking dotard yourself?
And by all means let him represent himself in front of Mueller. What could possibly go wrong?
Somebody we can exonerate, and put under oath? Somebody who can be put in prison if any of this is true?
Look, I'm unconvinced that Guccifer 2.0 is a GRU agent, and it's going to take a lot more than two-bit analysis of easily forged logs to convince me of this.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have work to do. Apparently some people out there still don't believe that Hillary Clinton was running a child-sex-slave ring in the basements of multiple pizza parlours nationwide, and I've got to set them straight.
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Trump! Russia! Putin! Shut up, Ivan! Oh whatever...
Trump dosent need those dotards. He is now going to represent himself and testify in front of Mueller. I was losing faith in him, but with this it is restored.
Har de har ...
Yeah, he might be doomed this time ... what is this, like the 500th time he's been doomed?
Or, you might be Wile E Coyote ... with your can't fail Acme thing about to fall on your head, again. We'll see.
My money's on the anvil, just from the track record so far ...
An intelligence agency hacked the russians, and saw them hack DNC.
I don't see the 30% of the U.S. electorate that stupidly/blindly supports Trump caring about this.
Love it! Adds to the infamous DNC life story.
Any firm that practices top law* is, by definition, a top law firm.
*Top law is the branch of the legal profession concerning spin.
Unlike the Roadrunner, your analogy's a bit off target. Wile E Coyote usually did get flattened by the anvil or blown up or fell off a cliff. OK he always got up eventually and tried yet again to catch his speedy nemesis but only succeeded in being severely injured once more. I'm not sure how this applies to Trump.
Trump's the roadrunner ...
So, an IP address to a city, town, or building, sure. But an IP address to a person? Even the US courts are disbelieving an IP address definitively links to a person. Yet we are lead to believe that this can be done in Russia. Not really feeling it. Russian operative, sure, but a specific Russian operative based on IP address, no. Likely multiple operatives share the same accounts and resources.
Guccifer 2.0 was a fake. He releases some unimportant docs to mimic the original, real guy and then just happens to act as Russian as possible.
More info here.
The Russians couldn't blackmail the DNC. That's the reason for the release. Remember, the same entity also penetrated the RNC.
Maybe the agent wanted to cheer up the mandatory coffee/tobacco brakes and did something like this for fun? Alternatively, GRU is the NSA of former SU, so maybe they too have experienced mission creep?
He actually is already doomed
November is coming, and impeachment grounds already exist.
Start saying Madame President (Pelosi)
You're a fucking idiot. President Pence if anything you unmitigated dolt.
Do you seriously think the FSB would use a computer that can be traced back to the street address of the FSB.
Some anonymous "expert", probably either another Obama administration hack like John Brennan or some journalist's secret invisible friend whispers thins into some journalist's ear and we're supposed to take it as gospel?????
Um, in the aftermath of several YEARS of these very same people lying to the whole nation, INCLUING UNDER OATH TO THE CONGRESS ON LIVE TV, why would ANY same human being believe a damn thing they say, PARTICULARLY when they are anonymous????
These stories about Russian hacking (which I certain happens all the time against lots of targets, along with Chinese hacking, American hacking, German hacking, etc), Russian collusion, Trump & Putin, etc have been fuelled by an endless supply of anonymous sources whose credibility cannot be determined by the public because the people involved (if they actually even exist) will not stand up and attach their names to their claims. Like him or not, Trump is standing there taking the hits and being associated his his actions. Same for the Republican House intel guy Nunes and the Democrat House intel guy Schiff. Not so for all these supposed journalists making claims with the supposed use of anonymous expert sources.
Let's face it: THERE WAS NO DNC HACK. The Democrats have never allowed their servers to be analyzed by law enforcement. The Democrats had a Ukrainian outfit produce a report blaming Russia (SHOCKING, that a Ukranian firm would blame Russia for something, right?) but no American law enforcement ever saw those servers and their logs (this is a matter of FACT testified to in congress by non-political Justice dept investigators). All the John Podesta e-mails that hurt Hillary so badly in 2016 were the result of Podesta stupidly falling for a spearphishing attack, NOT A HACK OF A SERVER. Was he fooled by a Russian? Quite possibly, but it hardly matters given that the CONENT of those emails is what hurt Hillary and there's no serious claim that the content was faked, so really the big complaint is that somebody tricked Podesta into telling the voting public the truth. Wow.
The hack was only of note because of the evidence that the DNC was fraudulently throwing the election to Hillary.
The hack would have been not news otherwise.
Now, we can finally prove that Hillary had the election stolen from her, not that she just ran a shitty campaign.
Phew, I can finally sleep at night.
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