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US Cyber Command Operation Disrupted Internet Access of Russian Troll Factory on Day of 2018 Midterms: Report (washingtonpost.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms, several U.S. officials said, a warning that the group's operations against the United States are not cost-free. The strike on the Internet Research Agency in St. Petersburg, a company underwritten by an oligarch close to President VladiÂmir Putin, was part of the first offensive cyber campaign against Russia designed to thwart attempts to interfere with a U.S. election, the officials said. "They basically took the IRA offline," according to one individual familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss classified information. "They shut 'em down." The operation marked the first muscle-flexing by U.S. Cyber Command, with intelligence from the National Security Agency, under new authorities it was granted by President Trump and Congress last year to bolster offensive capabilities.
Existence justified without the need to give proof. Government level tier.
That is all
So "Russian owned" Trump gives Cyber Command authority to take out Russians during mid-terms?
Cunning Russian, that Trump. Get Moose and Squirrel on the case.
is in no part a "national security" or otherwise strategic resource.
US build the internet to be resilient to such "attacks"
Bad russians congregate in a central location to allegedly "attack" the US
US get proud
Story sounds *very* fishy... Any stupid kid can coordinate such "attacks" from all over the world.
Now that the binawar is won, let's welcome home our digital warriors. Sunglasses for all!
Trump doesn't believe in intelligence.
the Russians should buy Huawei equipment and not Cisco...
Republicans don't seem to care at all about this, since the russians helped their team win.
I thought they were the "our guns protect your freedom" patriots who love 'murica so much?
Small minded Republicans, ask yourselves, why would Putin want Trump to win? Is it because he loves you and loves 'Murica?
Maybe, just maybe there is a different reason. Maybe he knows something you don't.
Of course, should the democrats win in the next election, I am pretty sure the world will hear you screaming your disingenuous little hearts out about how the Russians hacked the elections and how the results are not valid and blah blah blah. Why? Because you are pieces of shit who don't care about the US, or the world at large. You only care that your teams wins, regardless of what it costs every other person on the planet.
They are blocking memes from spreading on social media. This gives the moderators time to smoke weed and have sex in the hallways.
"under new authorities it was granted by President Trump and Congress"
...but most of the damage is done in the weeks leading up to the election. Shutting them down on election day is too late.
One of our competitors trademarked the term "hypothesis". From now on, we will call them "boneheaded ideas".
The U.S. military blocked Internet access to an infamous Russian entity seeking to sow discord among Americans during the 2018 midterms
Discord?!? We can't have discord during ... democratic elections!
Thank God our crack troops protected the motherla ... I mean, baseball and apple pie, from ... {shudder} ... discord!
Oligarch is a stupid buzzword that hacks throw into a non-story to make it sound spookier.
Elon Musk, an oligarch connected to Trump, ....
Jeff Bezos, an oligarch close to the Trump Administration...
Warren Buffet, an oligarch with ties to the Obama Foundation..
Mark Zuckerberg, an oligarch connected to Isreal
How timely. Sure, it's an important day, but the days leading up were also important...
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
uh oh spaghettios it looks like it's contagious, you should have yourself checked out.
I don't know why I bother, since you're clearly determined. Stop pushing political narratives. Hell, this would even be worth discussing if it weren't the thousandth article pushing "Russia hacked the elections". The ironic thing is your side has so thoroughly discredited itself that when you have real news that supports your cause it is going to be ignored. I don't even like Trump!
If video games influenced behavior the Pac Man generation would be eating pills and running away from their problems.
Of anonymity as someone who is close to Russian trolls. This really hurts bad. I hope you get a suspiciously vague amount of satisfaction from knowing that something somewhere may have happened according to someone that hurt the Russians.
I would like to remind everyone that the the US would consider the same done to them as an act of war which would justify a military response, up to and including a nuclear strike.
Almost all of the cases of fraud we've heard about this cycle have been GOP fraud involving hiring consultants to "help" people fill out and cast their ballots, often without their consent or knowledge and obviously illegally so.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-tearful-drama-of-north-carolinas-election-fraud-hearings
A bit more detail would be nice. Did they shut down the Internet on Russian territory? Probably not, that'd be some hot potato if they were found. If they blocked the IP on the US-side, there are plenty of proxies both in and out of the US to work through.
Either these trolls are very stupid and don't know anything about how the Internet works or this is just another story about how someone blocked an IP address and thinks they saved the world.
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"and don't take a cell phone anywhere that might be considered shady." - And if you're going to launder money for the Russian mob for 30 years, lol don't let your "fixer" lawyer guy record your voice talking about it for 15 years. Fucking moron.
A little bit of opsec and these Alfabank betas might have gotten away with it! A LITTLE BIT! "Russia, if you're listening..." - Seriously. Roger Stone now accepting rogering, will sing for lube. The whole treason is falling apart.
And why? BECAUSE HE PICKED A FIGHT WITH A PORN STAR. Let's just count the hundreds of times Trump has fucked himself, it's almost impossible to contain them all in your mind at one time. In his own WORDS a traitor!
We should be pitchforking his ass RIGHT NOW, instead you're making false equivocations and excuses for a known traitor. YOU ARE BECOME THE TRAITOR.
Hey "Guru" Evi, why don't we play a game? You make retarded obviously-wrong-on-their-face assumptions and assertions, and people who know at all about this because they read about this will just laugh at your retarded lack of chops, moron.
Lol. Russians have been charged, Manafort and others have been convicted, gone to prison for this. Are you such a retarded traitor that you're pretending you forgot how to read too? Suck Roger Stone's cock in prison you treasonous faggot.
If Russia is so bad, when are you going to demand Barack Obama apologize for demonizing Mitt Romney for daring to call Russia an adversary to the US?
Or are you just going to memory-hole that?
Actually Uranium One was more Republicans than Democrats, and not illegal. Don't let facts get in the way of a good yarn though, pizzagate traitor faggot apologist Fox Tards. Say hi to Putin's cock for us, traitor Republicans. Kiss it.
Putin's cock runs your party now.
You may have missed a few.
Of course, it would seem there's hardly any reason to suspect this, right?
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
'not illegal'.
So we've finally abandoned the fiction of 'the appearance of impropriety'.
Good. Multimillion dollar contributions, tens of thousands of dollars in speaking fees, certainly not illegal except by a strict reading of the law.
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
I see your 4/8chan and raise you. FYI, JFK, the Trilateral Commission, the Masons, the Bilderberg group, the Illuminati, even the Magnetic Pole Shift machine operators and the group that controls the sunspot seeding satellites, they all take orders from the Johnson Duality -- a secret lifeform composed of former presidents Andrew Johnson and Richard Nixon who's physical being is kept alive by chemicals and a constant bath of embryonic fluid in an secret underground bunker beneath the Infowars studio near Austin TX.
" Thursday, October 18, 2018 " "If true there will be serious consequences,” he said. - And nothing was found. I guess you'll have to try harder to equivocate, GOP fraudster.
Last week, the North Carolina Board of Elections, confronted with evidence of widespread election fraud, ordered a new election in North Carolina’s 9th congressional district. Local officials didn’t have much of a choice: both parties agree there was a Republican operation that appears to have engaged in fraudulent and illegal activity.
It was against this backdrop that Donald Trump had very little to say on the subject. On Friday afternoon, a reporter asked the president whether he was prepared to condemn his own party’s election fraud in North Carolina. His answer was a mess.
TRUMP: Well, I condemn any election fraud. And when I look at what’s happened in California with the votes, when I look at what happened – as you know, there was just a case where they found a million fraudulent votes. When I look at what’s happened in Texas –
Q: There haven’t been any cases –
TRUMP: Excuse me. Excuse me. When I look at what’s happened in Texas. When I look at that catastrophe that took place in Florida where the Republican candidates kept getting less and less and less and less. And fortunately, Rick Scott and Ron ended up winning their election, but it was disgraceful what happened there.
So I look at a lot of different places all over the country. I condemn any voter fraud of any kind, whether it’s Democrat or Republican – or when you look at some of the things that happened in California, in particular. When you look at what’s happened in Texas with all of those votes that they recently found were not exactly properly done, I condemn all of it. And that includes North Carolina, if anything – you know, I guess they’re going to be doing a final report. But I’d like to see the final report. But any form of election fraud, I condemn.
If we were to rank Trump’s lies on an offensiveness scale, his ridiculous claims about election fraud would have to be among the most exasperating.
Let’s take these one at a time:
* There is literally no evidence to support the assertion that a million illegal ballots were cast in California. It’s absurd. There’s a right-wing Facebook post that’s circulating among conspiracy theorists that apparently served as the basis for the presidential nonsense, but there’s no reason anyone should take it seriously.
* Trump’s reference to “what’s happened in Texas” is likely about the Texas secretary of state’s office alleging that roughly 95,000 non-citizens may be on the state’s voter rolls. It soon became obvious that the list included naturalized citizens, and the whole initiative quickly became something of a joke.
* The president pointed to election results in Florida, where his far-right allies prevailed, but where their margins shrunk as more votes were tallied. Trump considers this “disgraceful.” In reality, the only “disgrace” is the voter purge Rick Scott’s (R) administration orchestrated ahead of the election, and the evidence that suggests Bill Nelson (D) would’ve been in a position to win were it not for incompetent election management in Broward County.
But as important as these details are, they’re only part of the larger problem with Trump’s rhetoric on Friday.
Confronted with actual evidence of his party engaging in election fraud, Trump quickly tried to change the subject to voter fraud, pointing to examples that are fictional.
It wasn’t just a matter of partisan convenience: the president needs the public to believe voter fraud (which isn’t the same thing as election fraud) is a real scou
There's nothing illegal about either contributions or speaking fees if there's no actual quid pro quo, as there was apparently not in the Uranium One deal, which involved no fewer than 12 government agency sign-offs on the merits.
That's obviously quite different than Trump now facing over 200 felonies in 48 states for his fraudulent charity operation, fraudulent University program, unpaid illegal laborer recruitment, and collusion with Russian Intel to sabotage 2016 elections.
When Trump dies in prison maybe you'll understand how these are not equivocal, but I doubt it. Your head is wedged in there pretty good, if you fart you could blow your brains competely out. Hold it in, gassy GOP traitor.
The rope is coming, hang in there.
"Trump must accept the valid election results!" - Well, they probably meant without using Putin's hacker teams or illegal in-kind contributions, both felonies for old Dunnold. He'll die in prison, the fucking moron. Oh well.
And nothing of value was lost when the GOP turned traitor and disintegrated as a valid party.
As an independent myself, it's going to be hilarious when Trump hangs. I bet Obama will golf a lot more after Trump dies, just to rub it in a bit for Trump's treasonous inbred faggot authoritarian apologist followers.
They don't understand how this works yet lol.
What 200 felonies? Really?
deleting the extra space after periods so i can stay relevant, yeah.
US Army had to interfere with the internet traffic so to avoid Americans not to enter into discord due to fake news. It is presented as a good thing that just happened. Americans lost any little left discerning capabality and now the military is tasked with protecting their thoughts. We are at the bottom already.
Proxies take time and resources to set up, which is likely why the disruption happened on election day and not weeks before, so they wouldn't have time to respond.
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I see your infowars and raise you. The Patriarchy is the one behind them all.
Not GRU? Still got Bear?
U.S. Cyber Command went up against an oligarch and not the GRU?
Notice the magical way classified information gets to the media?
Why are we reading about classified information in real time?
If it was a real NSA mission that would stay secret for decades.
So historian would mention an accept of such a mission it in 40-50 years with approval.
No US gov/mil would tell any other nation of how it likes to do its cyber and what was done.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
Enjoy Trump's second term, soy boy!
The operation marked the first muscle-flexing by U.S. Cyber Command, with intelligence from the National Security Agency, under new authorities it was granted by President Trump and Congress last year to bolster offensive capabilities.
What narrative? Go back to Moscow, really.
yesterday i was sitting home eating my doritos when i noticed some activity on my internets. i quickly typed in some perl one-liners into my pi ssh and noticed we were being invaded by RUSSIANS! i typed some more one-liners, this time using awk, sed and a combination of some core utils and i shut down the RUSSIAN invasion! i saved the internet and nobody knows. i'm only mentioning this so you know there are people like me who are watching out for you. you're welcome, billy. you're welcome.
> Is there a difference?
No.
And he's doing all this at the spry young age of 101... Uh huh. /s
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