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Seems like this Guccifer 2.0 figure really is just in this for the fame and glory. No real hacker with a different agenda would reveal so much about him/herself
by jswny 10y ago
Seems like this Guccifer 2.0 figure really is just in this for the fame and glory. No real hacker with a different agenda would reveal so much about him/herself (assuming the info is true). It puzzles me. It's almost as if this new Guccifer wants to be caught just like the last one. As if his prosecution by the FBI will finally validate his status as a great hacker, the one who hacked the DNC amid one of the most historic elections in US history.
- rdtsc 10y agoFar fetched speculation, I wonder if FBI specifically instructed those who were hacked to tell the world it is the evil Russians. It played well with their victim's PR story (it is understandably we couldn't resist such a powerful enemy) but it also worked to flush him out with a blog post like this. Say, they suspected he was Romanian or from Moldova (a lot of Moldovans do not like the Russian govt.) so telling the world "this was a Russian super-hacker" was a way to get him angry and force him to try to repair his image so to speak. I think in the end because of of that blog post he might have revealed too much and is at a greater risk of getting caught now than he suspects.