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Russian Hackers Altered Emails Before Release to Wikileaks
Motherboard Vice, NPR, and MSNBChttp://www.peacock-panache.com ^ | July 25th, 2016 | Tim Peacock

Posted on 07/26/2016 10:15:25 AM PDT by ncfool

Russian Hackers Altered Emails Before Release to Wikileaks Source: Motherboard Vice, NPR, and MSNBC

New evidence is emerging that content from the DNC emails accessed by Russian hackers may have been altered before being released to Wikileaks. This added layer of information joined with the timing of the release and Trump’s cozy relationship with Putin paint a picture of deep collusion and planning aimed at fracturing any potential Democratic unity at the most crucial point in the 2016 presidential election cycle.

Thomas Rid at Motherboard Vice reported on the discovery this morning:

The metadata in the leaked documents are perhaps most revealing: one dumped document was modified using Russian language settings, by a user named “Феликс Эдмундович,” a code name referring to the founder of the Soviet Secret Police, the Cheka, memorialised in a 15-ton iron statue in front of the old KGB headquarters during Soviet times. The original intruders made other errors: one leaked document included hyperlink error messages in Cyrillic, the result of editing the file on a computer with Russian language settings. After this mistake became public, the intruders removed the Cyrillic information from the metadata in the next dump and carefully used made-up user names from different world regions, thereby confirming they had made a mistake in the first round.

Then there is the language issue. “I hate being attributed to Russia,” the Guccifer 2.0 account told Motherboard, probably accurately. The person at the keyboard then claimed in a chat with Motherboard’s Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai that Guccifer 2.0 was from Romania, like the original Guccifer, a well-known hacker. But when asked to explain his hack in Romanian, he was unable to respond colloquially and without errors. Guccifer 2.0’s English initially was also weak, but in subsequent posts the quality improved sharply, albeit only on political subjects, not in technical matters—an indication of a team of operators at work behind the scenes.

Rid went on to add:

The metadata show that the Russian operators apparently edited some documents, and in some cases created new documents after the intruders were already expunged from the DNC network on June 11. A file called donors.xls, for instance, was created more than a day after the story came out, on June 15, most likely by copy-pasting an existing list into a clean document.

Although so far the actual content of the leaked documents appears not to have been tampered with, manipulation would fit an established pattern of operational behaviour in other contexts, such as troll farms or planting fake media stories. Subtle (or not so subtle) manipulation of content may be in the interest of the adversary in the future. Documents that were leaked by or through an intelligence operation should be handled with great care, and journalists should not simply treat them as reliable sources.

Read more: http://www.peacock-panache.com/2016/07/russian-hackers-emails-wikileaks-23928.html


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; dnc; dncleaks; emailleaks; guccifer; hillary; hillaryclinton; hillaryforamerica; jenniferpalmieri; russia; russianhackers; russkies; wikileaks
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No matter how you spin it the Left is just plain stupid and gullible. Now the Hackers have altered the emails. Well the Rat's just need to provide Fox News and legitimate media sources their email server back up system. I can hear the crickets chirping for that to happen.
1 posted on 07/26/2016 10:15:25 AM PDT by ncfool
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To: ncfool

If so then why apologize?


2 posted on 07/26/2016 10:16:57 AM PDT by Brilliant
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You have to read well into the aticle to find this admission:

“Although so far the actual content of the leaked documents appears not to have been tampered with, ...”


3 posted on 07/26/2016 10:17:14 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: ncfool

Here we go. A Russian plot. Fake emails.....


4 posted on 07/26/2016 10:17:19 AM PDT by Genoa (Tempus fugit)
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Ok, should be really easy to prove. Just release the originals right now and not 6 months from now which would give you time to alter the originals


5 posted on 07/26/2016 10:17:49 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%en)
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Gotta hand it to the Left. They realize that their supporters are stupid enough, that any lie to them will be believed outright and no ownership of criminal activity will ever be assessed upon their leaders.

Fraud, it’s what plants need.


6 posted on 07/26/2016 10:18:02 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (He wins & we do, our nation does, the world does. It's morning in America again. You are living it!)
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Now the Media palace guards are trying to fly this trial balloon?

"People, that stuff just looks *so* terrible because the Russians altered it!"

Spin. Always trying to spin their lies with more lies.

7 posted on 07/26/2016 10:18:04 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: ncfool

This is pure BS...


8 posted on 07/26/2016 10:18:04 AM PDT by Sleeping Freeper
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These emails are fake, but accurate.


9 posted on 07/26/2016 10:18:16 AM PDT by fhayek
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So after the accounts were supposedly hacked by Russians, they sifted through thousands of emails to alter words and punctuation? Uh huh. Any lie to cover their deceit.


10 posted on 07/26/2016 10:18:30 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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What utter, transparent horseshite.
Just another day for the fifth columnists at npr & msnbc.


11 posted on 07/26/2016 10:18:38 AM PDT by tomkat
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Okay, DNC — calling your bluff. Release all of the emails to that we, the public, can decide for ourselves. Make all emails for the past year available online.

DNC: No you wont? — Then STFU.

12 posted on 07/26/2016 10:18:38 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: ncfool

Is this satire?


13 posted on 07/26/2016 10:18:41 AM PDT by goodnesswins (Alinsky.....it's what's for dinner: with Cloward Piven for Dessert)
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...This added layer of information joined with the timing of the release and Trump’s cozy relationship with Putin paint a picture of deep collusion and planning aimed at fracturing any potential Democratic unity...

Wow. These people are losing it. We must be winning.

14 posted on 07/26/2016 10:18:47 AM PDT by McGruff (How about investigating the donations to the Clinton Foundation)
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Muddy the waters.

Give the hack spinners talking points.

But above all else, do not talk about the contents.


15 posted on 07/26/2016 10:18:57 AM PDT by joshua c (Allah's paradise is full of mass murderers)
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This is scandalous. I think they should immediately reinstate Debbie and get her out in front of the Convention again.


16 posted on 07/26/2016 10:19:18 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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17 posted on 07/26/2016 10:19:28 AM PDT by BigEdLB (Take it Easy, Chuck. I'm Not Taking it Back -- Donald Trump)
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I was wondering how long before they made the claim that the emails were altered.


18 posted on 07/26/2016 10:19:31 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Socialism is always just one or a thousand or a million more murders away from utopia.)
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and show the actual email which I am sure they still have to prove that they were changed. they didn’t..


19 posted on 07/26/2016 10:19:36 AM PDT by scbison
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New evidence is emerging that content from the DNC emails accessed by Russian hackers may have been altered before being released to Wikileaks.

You can tell by their words that they are LYING!

If there is evidence to back up their statement then why do they say that Russian hackers MAY have altered the emails? They either did or they did not and EVIDENCE will prove it. The can be no equivocation on this point.

20 posted on 07/26/2016 10:19:53 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Alba gu brath!)
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