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I'm not sure why none of the other replies to your post as of this writing mention this, but "Guccifer 2.0" is not only providing legitimate information. A few
by comex 10y ago
I'm not sure why none of the other replies to your post as of this writing mention this, but "Guccifer 2.0" is not only providing legitimate information. A few days ago they claimed to have hacked the Clinton Foundation, but the documents they released appear to have been recycled from previous breaches of different organizations (DNC and DCCC), and there is reason to believe they may have been modified. Even if they weren't modified, the mere presence of campaign data on servers belonging to the Clinton Foundation would be considered potentially shady and newsworthy in itself, especially in today's political climate; in fact the Guccifer post explicitly calls this out. The story was debunked before it had much chance to spread in the media, but I bet lots of people still believe it's real.
It should go without saying that false information is a negative influence on the presidential campaign. Indeed, there's quite enough of it already without the need for foreign disinformation campaigns...
Source: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/researchers-find-fake-data-in-olympic-anti-doping-guccifer-2-0-clinton-dumps/ http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/10/researchers-find-fak...