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This is a fascinating article. Not sure I understood all of it.
http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a49791/russian-dnc-emails-hacked/
This particular paragraph has me a bit confused as it says The Intercept was involved in identifying hacked malware tools using unpublished NSA info they had from Snowden. If this is the case, why is Glenn Greenwald so dismissive of Russia's involvement in this? Why as a journalist is he not interested in how this data was obtained?
"In mid-August, when Guccifer and DC Leaks were making near-daily news, a third mysterious social-media account popped up out of nowhere. A group calling itself the Shadow Brokers announced that it had published "cyberweapons" that belonged to the NSA on file-sharing sites such as Github. The group said that it would soon hold an auction to sell off a second cache of tools. After a security researcher posted a link to a repository of the supposed NSA software, analysts flocked to the dump. Security researchers quickly discovered that the tools, a collection of malware designed to steal data from their targets, were the real thing. Crucially, The Intercept, a media outlet with access to the NSA files leaked by Edward Snowden, found a sixteen-character string ("ace02468bdf13579" in the Shadow Brokers' tools that was referenced in a top-secret, and previously unpublished, NSA manual. The connection proved the provenance of the Shadow Brokers' find.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)And this, in reference to your excerpt...
So it's not clear to me that they are saying what you say they are saying. (Just saying.)
I understand we have an Assange, Snowden, Putin, Trump narrative going on. Perhaps at some point we'll figure out if that is true or just more...
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)Do you have to shout it in every fucking thread?
Wilms
(26,795 posts)It used to be a great tradition around here.
But feel better, Doc.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)The truth is that Russia is behind the cyber attacks on the DNC. The truth is that Russia has been giving info from said attacks to Wikileaks.
You, however, would rather believe the anti-semite rapist Assange is the good guy. That was never a DU tradition.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)Not cool for a PhD.
-edited to add-
Just want to point that out.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)And who's claiming a PhD? Certainly not me.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)And I misunderstood, Dr.
I saw "Dr", and figured you were a PhD.
Funny how some things are not as they are reported. Live and (possibly) learn.
Dr Hobbitstein
(6,568 posts)and penchant for building things out of other things (long time musician, build all my own gear).
And no, that is not how many concluded Saddam was going to kill us. Matter of fact, intelligence pointed the opposite way, the Bush admin just cherry picked the data that they wanted. We knew that from day one.
This is a bit different, and quite blatant. Hell, R/T reports on the leaks before they're even printed in Wikileaks. Wikileaks has NEVER been a reputable source for anything (although I hear it's a GREAT place to get tons of viruses and malware). Like the videos they edited purporting "war crimes". Heavily edited and misleading.
End Of The Road
(1,397 posts)Some of us appreciate you very much,
BlueCaliDem
(15,438 posts)Wilms
(26,795 posts)I wish it wasn't a fight to ask people to logically view events and to consider themselves first an American, second a Democrat, and third an HRC supporter.
That list is reversed for many it seems.
The seemingly xenophobic reactions to Russia are disturbing. It reminds me of the lead-up to the Iraq war. Some 80% of Americans favored it at the time it was launched. That's a lot of people and has to included way too many Democrats.
I see we're doing something similar all over again.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"Whole lotta "likely" and "probably" in that article..."
Almost as many as is found in the myriad state-sponsored RT articles.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)about the American man arrested in August with an immense amount of classified information at his home. The FBI got search warrants and went through his house, car and shed. It is an article in the NYT. So far, it is unclear if this American shared or sold classified information or if he was hacked.
Interesting as all this Russian hacking unfolds bit by bit.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)Nice to see that sort of thing.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)and like Assange and the rest of their boys club, they are so opposed to a Hillary presidency they don't care who they get in bed with, or what they have to turn a blind eye to...
I've only been screaming this to anyone who would listen for God knows how long...
kimbutgar
(21,164 posts)He is no hero but a traitor. I have a friend who was praising Snowden and I pointed this out. She said she never thought of this and pulled her praise of Snowden. That weasel and greenwald are traitors.
And I think before the election is over the NSA or another agency has evidence Cheeto is cohorts with Putin. And it will be exposed.