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What conspiracy theory? Assange, the person most likely to actually know what happened, has stated that the source for the Podesta emails was a disgruntled "was

What conspiracy theory? Assange, the person most likely to actually know what happened, has stated that the source for the Podesta emails was a disgruntled "washington insider" In addition, former British ambassador Craig Murray (a man with a solid reputation and little reason to lie) claims to have personally met the source and insists that the source is definitely a political insider without ties to Russia. https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/12/cias-absence-conviction/ https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/12/cias-absence...

WillyOnWheels 10y ago
I thought the Podesta emails (at least the ones in the Wikileaks archive that Wikileaks keep tweeting urls to searches of) were from someone sending Podesta a fake gmail password reset email? I don't think a disgruntled washington insider did that! I could be confused and there's another set of emails that you're referring to. It's impossible to keep up on everything lately.
- mschuster91 10y ago
  > I don't think a disgruntled washington insider did that! Quite the contrary: If I definitely know that my target is too incompetent to check what he clicks on, or that he forgets his password every week, it's waaay easier for me to achieve my goal.
  - WillyOnWheels 10y ago
    Creating a plausible site that looks like a Google password reset workflow may be a few minutes work for hackernews reading front end wizards, but it's not really the domain of disgruntled washington bureaucrats.
    - Nadya 10y ago
      Disgruntled Washington bureaucrats have money. Money can buy you black hat devs. A few minutes work for a chance at $[x-xx],000? Done and done. Payment upon successful phish. There are plenty of people that value money over morals.
      - WillyOnWheels 10y ago
        I think it's still easier to blame a group run by a well funded nation state.
        Sunset 10y ago
        It certainly would be more politically expedient.
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hackinthebochs 10y ago
>What conspiracy theory? Assange, the person most likely to actually know what happened In no way is Assange most likely to know what happened, in the same way that a Tor exit node is not most likely to know who originated a message it delivered. Those with actual intelligence assets are far more likely to know who the ultimate source is.
gdudeman 10y ago
Assange may have said that, but Podesta was hacked by a sloppy organization that used Bitly to attempt a hack on thousands of other accounts worldwide. Assange has no reason to implicate Russia. It would also be very, very easy to give a disgruntled insider the email trove or help them stumble upon it. Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-hackers-broke-into-john-podesta-and-colin-powells-gmail-accounts https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-hackers-broke...

WillyOnWheels 10y ago

I thought the Podesta emails (at least the ones in the Wikileaks archive that Wikileaks keep tweeting urls to searches of) were from someone sending Podesta a fake gmail password reset email? I don't think a disgruntled washington insider did that! I could be confused and there's another set of emails that you're referring to. It's impossible to keep up on everything lately.

mschuster91 10y ago
> I don't think a disgruntled washington insider did that! Quite the contrary: If I definitely know that my target is too incompetent to check what he clicks on, or that he forgets his password every week, it's waaay easier for me to achieve my goal.
- WillyOnWheels 10y ago
  Creating a plausible site that looks like a Google password reset workflow may be a few minutes work for hackernews reading front end wizards, but it's not really the domain of disgruntled washington bureaucrats.
  - Nadya 10y ago
    Disgruntled Washington bureaucrats have money. Money can buy you black hat devs. A few minutes work for a chance at $[x-xx],000? Done and done. Payment upon successful phish. There are plenty of people that value money over morals.
    - WillyOnWheels 10y ago
      I think it's still easier to blame a group run by a well funded nation state.
      - Sunset 10y ago
        It certainly would be more politically expedient.
      - deleted 10y ago
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hackinthebochs 10y ago

>What conspiracy theory? Assange, the person most likely to actually know what happened In no way is Assange most likely to know what happened, in the same way that a Tor exit node is not most likely to know who originated a message it delivered. Those with actual intelligence assets are far more likely to know who the ultimate source is.

gdudeman 10y ago

Assange may have said that, but Podesta was hacked by a sloppy organization that used Bitly to attempt a hack on thousands of other accounts worldwide. Assange has no reason to implicate Russia. It would also be very, very easy to give a disgruntled insider the email trove or help them stumble upon it. Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-hackers-broke-into-john-podesta-and-colin-powells-gmail-accounts https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-hackers-broke...