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Qatar: FBI says Russian hackers 'planted fake news story' that led to crisis

26 points by asymmetric 9y ago

te_chris 9y ago
Good thing cool heads always prevail and there's no one reactionary in a position of influence, sending stupid tweets and stirring things up without understanding what's happening.
- travmatt 9y ago
  The more disturbing possibility is that he fully understands what's going on.
govi44 9y ago
Russian hacker people can't you guys get people to dig wells, build schools or something? How does anyone get their kicks doing this stuff? What sort of underdeveloped imagination do these people have? I mean if you have the technical skills and geopolitical sense to do this why can't these people find better quality work?
- pjc50 9y ago
  Make Russia Great Again? I'm guessing that from their point of view it's both patriotic service of the motherland and a low form of entertainment watching people fall for the trolling.
  - govi45 9y ago
    Who knows what the consequences are going to be and if the outcomes will actually benefit Russia, to judge if it's patriotic or not? All they are doing is permanently damaging actual Russian talent.
redwood 9y ago
Very hard to know what is real on this one. Nevertheless I consider it outrageous that this "country" (more like natural gas indentured servant city state and chief backer of numerous questionable militant causes) was awarded the World Cup and hope that is somehow reversed.
- AndyMcConachie 9y ago
  It's a match made in heaven frankly. FIFA's corruption mated with a slave state. Cronyism is complete.
dagenleg 9y ago
> “We’re getting tired of reacting to unsubstantiated banalities,” Andrei Krutskikh, a Kremlin adviser on cybersecurity, told the Interfax news agency. “Whatever happens it is hackers. It’s a stale claim and as ever, there is zero evidence, and conclusions are drawn before the incident is even investigated,” he said.
- Jenya_ 9y ago
  The glorious leader of Russia's people himself said that patriotism is a good enough reason for Russian hackers to exist (and I guess Russia does motivate patriotism with money): https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/06/putin-patriotic-russian-hackers-may-have-interfered-in-us-election/ https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/06/putin-patriotic-rus...
upofadown 9y ago
The original CNN article here: * http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/russian-hackers-planted-fake-news-qatar-crisis/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/russian-hackers-p... So it is someone saying that an FBI investigation has revealed something: >Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told CNN the FBI has confirmed the hack and the planting of fake news. Other than that it is all unnamed "government sources".

26 points by asymmetric 9y ago

Good thing cool heads always prevail and there's no one reactionary in a position of influence, sending stupid tweets and stirring things up without understanding what's happening.

travmatt 9y ago
The more disturbing possibility is that he fully understands what's going on.

govi44 9y ago

Russian hacker people can't you guys get people to dig wells, build schools or something? How does anyone get their kicks doing this stuff? What sort of underdeveloped imagination do these people have? I mean if you have the technical skills and geopolitical sense to do this why can't these people find better quality work?

pjc50 9y ago
Make Russia Great Again? I'm guessing that from their point of view it's both patriotic service of the motherland and a low form of entertainment watching people fall for the trolling.
- govi45 9y ago
  Who knows what the consequences are going to be and if the outcomes will actually benefit Russia, to judge if it's patriotic or not? All they are doing is permanently damaging actual Russian talent.

redwood 9y ago

Very hard to know what is real on this one. Nevertheless I consider it outrageous that this "country" (more like natural gas indentured servant city state and chief backer of numerous questionable militant causes) was awarded the World Cup and hope that is somehow reversed.

AndyMcConachie 9y ago
It's a match made in heaven frankly. FIFA's corruption mated with a slave state. Cronyism is complete.

dagenleg 9y ago

> “We’re getting tired of reacting to unsubstantiated banalities,” Andrei Krutskikh, a Kremlin adviser on cybersecurity, told the Interfax news agency. “Whatever happens it is hackers. It’s a stale claim and as ever, there is zero evidence, and conclusions are drawn before the incident is even investigated,” he said.

Jenya_ 9y ago
The glorious leader of Russia's people himself said that patriotism is a good enough reason for Russian hackers to exist (and I guess Russia does motivate patriotism with money): https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/06/putin-patriotic-russian-hackers-may-have-interfered-in-us-election/ https://arstechnica.com/security/2017/06/putin-patriotic-rus...

upofadown 9y ago

The original CNN article here: * http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/russian-hackers-planted-fake-news-qatar-crisis/index.html http://edition.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/russian-hackers-p... So it is someone saying that an FBI investigation has revealed something: >Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman al-Thani told CNN the FBI has confirmed the hack and the planting of fake news. Other than that it is all unnamed "government sources".