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Russian Hackers Said to Seek Hush Money From Liberal Groups
Bloomberg | March 6, 2017 | Michael Riley

Posted on 03/06/2017 6:16:14 AM PST by reaganaut1

No excerpts allowed from Bloomberg, story here


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: russiahackers

1 posted on 03/06/2017 6:16:14 AM PST by reaganaut1
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Bloomers. Zero credibility.


2 posted on 03/06/2017 6:18:13 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. - Clint Eastwood)
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Nothing new about Russian hackers. There are also a lot of hackers from the former Soviet Union. Europe is full of hackers too.

This is nothing new. I’ve known 15 year old children that could hack most any computer most anywhere around the world. If democrats are just now becoming aware of this threat, they’re clueless idiots.


3 posted on 03/06/2017 6:22:40 AM PST by boycott
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Hello? Mrs. Pelosi? This Peggy from Latvia Card Services. We need verify your account please. You been hacked. Nigerian Prince scam must be.
4 posted on 03/06/2017 6:29:53 AM PST by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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The hackers are using the same techniques they used to hack the DNC. If these progressive groups haven’t improved their network security - they are idiots and deserve whatever happens.


5 posted on 03/06/2017 6:38:23 AM PST by KosmicKitty (Waiting for inspirations)
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Why didn’t they just blackmail Soros?


6 posted on 03/06/2017 6:49:09 AM PST by dragonblustar (I love reading Trump tweets in the morning.)
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Ahhhh....the backstory.

Grounds for Trump to have FISA wiretapes on all liberal groups.

What an opportunity!

Protect the snowflakes and Soros from foreign extortion.

7 posted on 03/06/2017 6:58:52 AM PST by ptsal
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To: FlingWingFlyer

More “anonymous” “leaks” from the Deep State, and it doesn’t come until after the “Russia” story is running aground and Trump emptied his first salvo about Obama spying on Trump communications before the election.


8 posted on 03/06/2017 7:01:03 AM PST by Wuli
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The Center for American Progress and Arabella Advisors have been asked to pay ransoms, according to people familiar with the probes?

Podesta.


9 posted on 03/06/2017 7:07:46 AM PST by maggief
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To: VRWCarea51

I loved that commercial.


10 posted on 03/06/2017 7:29:28 AM PST by Rusty0604
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To: maggief

And they demand payment in bitcoins.


11 posted on 03/06/2017 7:31:15 AM PST by Rusty0604
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Take their money first, and then expose them.

Twofer.


12 posted on 03/06/2017 9:00:57 AM PST by BeauBo
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The wicked flee when no man pursueth: but the righteous are bold as a lion. — Proverbs 28:1 KJV

I like this idea, because it applies to liberals. That is, even if they personally don’t have horrific dirty laundry, they *assume* that other liberals are up to their eyebrows in it.

Say a blackmailer hears a woman tell her friends that she suspects her husband is cheating on her, but she likes her marriage (and wealth) enough so that she doesn’t want to divorce him. And she is afraid of confronting him for fear that he might divorce her.

So the blackmailer approaches her and says “give me a lot of money or I will expose your husband’s cheating.”

This is what hackers should do to the liberals.

“Give us money or we will provide more than enough evidence that will put Hillary/Elizabeth Warren/Schumer in prison for life.”

Liberal groups would be terrified, and might regularly cough up huge sums of money to prevent this from happening. And they certainly won’t tell other liberal groups, so the same scam might work against dozens of them at the same time.


13 posted on 03/06/2017 9:39:01 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Leftists aren't fascists. They are "democratic fascists", a completely different thing.)
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Why worry about being hacked if you have done nothing wrong...oh wait these are liberal groups.


14 posted on 03/06/2017 10:41:29 AM PST by nclaurel
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