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This is certainly one of the more peculiar incidents of late. It's been my impression that the US and Russia conduct various sorts of covert mischief such as t
by grandalf 10y ago
This is certainly one of the more peculiar incidents of late.
It's been my impression that the US and Russia conduct various sorts of covert mischief such as this, but it's usually under the radar.
"Hacking" an insecure email server configured by campaign volunteers or other non-technical people is not exactly what would qualify as a "state sponsored attack".
(edit: if you disagree please explain why rather than simply downvoting)
- dogma1138 10y agoActually this is a pretty clear sign of a state sponsored attack, most attacks including the ones that the US does are not technically sophisticated but they are executed near flawlessly with a very good operational methodology, the other aspect of state sponsored attacks is protection; even the criminal elements of the security/hacking community stays out of military and government networks usually unless they have a pretty strong patron they can run to, no one wants to experience rendition or a drone strike both of which are very real threats hackers that attack government networks face.
- eloff 10y agoReally? Can you name one hacker targeted in a drone strike? I'm pretty sure that only happens in your mind.
- X86BSD 10y agoHillary wanted to drone Snowden. I don't think it's too far off you're going to see these batshit crazy political elities start droning anyone that opposes them.
- ak4g 10y agoSnowden did no hacking.
- WallowC_33 10y agoISIS hackers were taken out with a drone strike last year.
- devy 10y agoAssange, for one. Of course she declined (did not recall) and suggested it might have been a "joke". https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/782906224937410562 https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/782906224937410562
- dogma1138 10y agohttp://www.wsj.com/articles/hacker-killed-by-drone-was-secret-weapon-1440718560 http://www.wsj.com/articles/hacker-killed-by-drone-was-secre...
- eloff 10y agoObviously ISIS hackers will get killed in drone strikes, that's a war. But nobody is going to drone strike a hacker in Russia, Germany, or the USA. Let's get real here.
- grandalf 10y ago> Actually this is a pretty clear sign of a state sponsored attack So are you saying that the Russian government either unintentionally left a trail (IOCs) on the server, or intentionally left a trail because it wanted to be detected? Or are you simply claiming that "Guccifer 2" is on the payroll of the Russian government? (or some combination of the above)...
- dogma1138 10y agoI'm not saying it was Russia, I'm saying that anyone these days that hacks such a high profile target and then parades around and does show and tells has a sponsor. The fact that some of the leaked emails/information of from the "Guccifer" et al. hacks have also been tampered with in order to achieve a specific political goal also hints at a higher objective which isn't something one usually associates with cybercrime or even hacktivism. Criminals would steal, sell and run and hide (not that you could hide these days if you break into a US government network), hacktivists would not usually tamper with the information they release as it goes against their own philosophy.
- grandalf 10y ago> have also been tampered with What tampering has occurred?
- dogma1138 10y agoThe documents were edited, to what extent/purpose it is unknown. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36913000 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-36913000 http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/guccifer-leak-of-dnc-trump-research-has-a-russians-fingerprints-on-it/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/guccifer-leak-of-dnc... The emails released in 2013 also show some signs of tampering, there were incidents of duplicate headers and the times of some of the emails were strange (mostly related to Benghazi ironically) this was a copy paste error but again no one knows to what extent the "content" if and was tampered with.
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