Russian Hackers or Lame Excuses?

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Re: Russian Hackers or Lame Excuses?

Postby a2z » Tue Oct 25, 2016 8:06 pm

WikiLeaks emails blow hole in Obama story on Clinton server
What the hell does it take to charge Hillary with a crime? What more evidence do we need? We know there's no way to prove who's responsible for the hack, but we know that Hillary committed several crimes. Let's act on what we know and do something right for a change!
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Re: Russian Hackers or Lame Excuses?

Postby mrgreen » Mon Oct 31, 2016 7:01 pm

Putin slams Western claims about 'Russian threat'
Is the USA a banana republic? The idea that Russia could influence the election in the USA is laughable. The whole Russian hacker thing is a fabrication. There is no evidence which supports the claim that Russia was behind the DNC computer hack. The truth is that the DNC computer was not properly secured and that it was an easy target. Thousands of individual hackers possess the skills to have done the hack. Any of them could have easily done the job without any assistance at all and anyone who hasn't been living under a rock for the last few years would know that WikiLeaks was the place to send any juicy info to. Hacking tools exist which make it easy to cover your digital tracks. Any 14 yo hacker knows how to route through multiple servers on the way to a target. This is really basic and simple stuff, not a big conspiracy requiring a great deal of expertise.
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Re: Russian Hackers or Lame Excuses?

Postby a2z » Tue Nov 01, 2016 6:52 pm

UK and US accuse Russia of cyberhacking
CNN (aka, Clinton News Network) still trying to play the blame Russia game. The only people buying this bullshit are hardcore Hildawg fans. No one else wants to hear anything about this Russians. It's old, stale, and complete bullshit!
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Re: Russian Hackers or Lame Excuses?

Postby a2z » Wed Nov 02, 2016 6:18 pm

Only Thing 'Exposed' By Bad Reporting About Russia/Trump Link Is Malware Researchers' Unethical Behavior
Clinton supporters are so eager to show that Trump has ties to Russia that they will accept anything (and I do mean anything) as evidence for such a connection. It's gotten beyond ridiculous and has even surpassed merely stupid.
...but it appears some researchers went looking for weird Trump conspiracy theories and were so invested in those theories that they didn't even realize how ridiculous it was when looked at in the light of day -- and also forgot that they're not supposed to reveal they have access to this info.

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161101/17372035938/only-thing-exposed-bad-reporting-about-russia-trump-link-is-malware-researchers-unethical-behavior.shtml
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Re: Russian Hackers or Lame Excuses?

Postby desertrat » Thu Nov 03, 2016 8:17 am

a2z: Yes, it has gotten beyond ridiculous and has definitely surpassed merely stupid. I think the best word to describe the situation is RETARDED! That's also the best word to describe anyone who votes for either Clinton or Trump.
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Re: Russian Hackers or Lame Excuses?

Postby mrfish » Thu Nov 03, 2016 6:18 pm

‘Russia not behind Clinton leaks’ – Assange interview with John Pilger
Hillary Clinton has relied largely on anti-Russian hysteria to gain support. This neo-McCarthyism is something you'd expect from the Conservative side of the aisle, not from the Liberal side of the aisle. As for the claims that Russia is responsible for hacking the DNC computer... bullshit!
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Re: Russian Hackers or Lame Excuses?

Postby MojaveMike » Fri Nov 04, 2016 8:12 am

I'd say that the words RETARDED and BULLSHIT pretty much account for the claims regarding any connection between Russia and Hillary's problems. Hillary caused her own problems and crying wolf only fools the dumbest of the dumb!
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Re: Russian Hackers or Lame Excuses?

Postby cactuspete » Mon Nov 07, 2016 6:39 pm

US Officials 'Strategically Leak' That US Is Ready To Hack Russia If It Interferes With Election
I'd imagine that our electrical grid and our communications grid are much more fragile and vulnerable than what exists in Russia. If we start this game, we can't complain when it comes back to bite us in the ass! And then there's this angle:
Dangerous game: So now if, say, a Russian missile were to take out a civilian target they can blame it on the US government. The US did, after all, admit that they had hacked the Russian systems.

If we mess with their systems, then it's easy to claim that it was our tampering that caused a malfunction. Only our leaders here in the USA are stupid enough to start a cyberwar based on false claims that Russia hacked targets here first.
Going all the way back to the early summer, when Russia's role in any hacks was totally speculative, some were already advocating for "cyberwar" as a response. As we reached the fall, suddenly it was leaked that many inside the government were getting itchy trigger fingers to launch some sort of digital attack. And, government officials really seemed to rely on the ever gullible reporters at NBC to push this story.

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161106/00352135973/us-officials-strategically-leak-that-us-is-ready-to-hack-russia-if-it-interferes-with-election.shtml
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Re: Russian Hackers or Lame Excuses?

Postby BoraxBill » Tue Nov 08, 2016 6:41 pm

HIGH ALERT! U.S. Govt. Prepares For Russian Cyber Attack
Just like cactuspete says, any halfwit realizes that our power and communications infrastructure is thousands of times more vulnerable than Russia's. Our infrastructure is a patchwork of private projects mostly all designed as cheaply as possible in order to gouge consumers for every possible penny. Russia's systems were designed with efficiency and security in mind. It would be suicide for us to launch a cyber attack. We'd be hurt a hundred times worse than anything we could do to them. I'm sure our leaders are just bluffing, but how FUCKING STUPID do you have to be to believe this bullshit?!!
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Re: Russian Hackers or Lame Excuses?

Postby mrgreen » Wed Nov 16, 2016 6:23 pm

NSA head accuses Russia of trying to interfere with election
More propaganda blaming the Russians for Hillary's defeat. Any elite hacker group is capable of leaving no trace. Less elite hacker groups can get a hold of hacking tools which were state-of-the-art five years ago. But not even those tools were needed to break into the DNC server. That was beginner level stuff.
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