Posted on 03/12/2017 7:57:22 AM PDT by davikkm
Remember the “Russian Hacking” story that Hillary Clinton ran into the ground? The theme was Russia hacked the 2016 Election to help Donald Trump win and to hurt Hillary. With the news from WikiLeaks Vault 7, it makes the story less credible. The “Vault 7? leaks are believed to be authentic and reveal a few uncomfortable truths about the overreach of U.S. intelligence agencies. The leaks also provide insight into the sophisticated hacking methods which are used. Hacking is a very self serving method of probing a victim while stealing their personal identity and privacy. Each hacker bears their own unique fingerprint, and that fingerprint can be faked to imitate another hacker. The CIA can cover its tracks by leaving electronic trails suggesting the hacking is being done in different places notably in Russia. In fact, according to WikiLeaks, there’s an entire department dedicated to this. Its job is to “misdirect attribution” by leaving false fingerprints. If you’ve been at all skeptical about the recent levels of Russia related hysteria, promoted heavily by U.S. intelligence agencies, alarm bells are probably going off in your head. If they aren’t they should be. I am sure Vault 7 is raining on Hillary’s parade, along with others who pushed the “Russian hacking ” story. Keeping these tactics in mind, the evidence presented to prove that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee in an effort to throw the presidential election to Donald Trump becomes flimsier than it was before. And it was pretty flimsy to begin with. Recall, for example, that cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike conveniently concluded within one day that the Russian government was behind the attack on the DNC servers.
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I would change that to say “Wikileaks Vault 7 Makes The “Russian” hacking story less credible, while increasing the liklihood that “hacking” occurs far more often than previously suspected.
A story posted earlier by 2ndDivisionVet presents a major fly in the Russian hacking ointment: DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman-Schultz gave her iPad password to the Awan brothers, who provided IT services to Congressional Dems including Deb. Occam’s Razor and all that...
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It’s not breaking and entering if you invite them in...
If some one gets your password or guess’ what is-—I don’t consider that a true hack. True hacking is exploiting a weakness in software to break into a system or data base. One require no tech talent and the other requires talent. The MSM wants us to believe the disclosure of DNC emails required a high level of tech skill, but all it required was a password and thumb drive.
*shrug* That and epic stupidity and/or arrogance and/or criminal malice and/or child-like trust in one's minions...
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