Comments | ontd_political: Premature to blame Russia for DNC hack; NSA could know who's behind it, release info as deterrent

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Premature to blame Russia for DNC hack; NSA could know who's behind it, release info as deterrent

Jul 26, 2016 14:16

The rush to blame Russia for the DNC email hack is premature

There is some circumstantial evidence that the hack may have originated in Russia, but there are many questions that haven’t been resolved

Since WikiLeaks published the DNC’s hacked emails on Sunday, there has been a flurry of accusations - including from the Hillary Clinton campaign - ( Read more... )

russia, wikileaks, technology / computers, democratic national committee/convention

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fka July 27 2016, 05:45:07 UTC

thanks for making this post, OP!

bnmc2005 July 27 2016, 15:02:03 UTC

While we wait to see if the NSA will take its most famous former employee’s advice, it is worth reading a thorough review of the evidence produced so far, compiled for Motherboard by Thomas Rid, a professor at King’s College London who has charted the use of hacking for espionage.

As Rid explains, the attribution of the DNC hack to Russian intelligence agents was first suggested on June 15 by CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm hired by the Democrats to investigate the possible breach of their system in May.

I felt like the trail presented by Thomas Rid was pretty convincing and well-documented.

Reading the email itself, however, shows something quite different. The complete text of the email chain makes it clear that Miranda was contributing to a thread in which officials worked together to edit a draft of a humorous press release, or “hit,” that mocked Trump for making such an outlandish suggestion.
I appreciate this article is calling out the idea that Wikileaks and other sources to be some impartial fountain of pure info ( ... )

bnmc2005 July 27 2016, 15:05:08 UTC

The glaring question for me in all of this is if this wasn't done to sway the election, WHY do they continue to go after Clinton only?

You're telling me in all of the GOP and Trump's mega-million industries there isn't some bevy of embarassing information, emails or possible corruption.... ? If these hacks were meant to be an information dump for the sake of information only, why does it seem so one-sided?

amw July 27 2016, 18:16:47 UTC

I was going to comment on this this morning, but I decided to wait till I got home from work. And now Trump just tossed a molotov on the whole thing. I mean, for real. Can't go 12 hours without this guy escalating a good old-fashioned conspiracy theory into facepalm central ( ... )

bnmc2005 July 27 2016, 18:21:13 UTC

And, in seriousness, obvi we have to wait and see if the evidence comes out before drawing any real conclusions.

This is what confuses me, about people saying there isn't enough "evidence." Again. It seems well documented in the Motherboard article. This isn't just a theory, someone has done the research and connected the technical dots in a logical fashion.

amw July 27 2016, 19:03:51 UTC

Ehhh I dunno. I'm an IT professional, been working in software for over 15 years. I'm not a security specialist, but I do know enough to know that tracing hackers isn't as easy as it looks in the movies. The difficult bit is not necessarily tracing the source of the original hack, but trying to figure out what happened to the data after the hack happened ( ... )