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UK Trade Leaks

30 points by colinprince 7y ago

wizzwizz4 7y ago
Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/e74nml/suspected_campaign_from_russia_on_reddit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/e74nml/susp... > Earlier this year Facebook discovered a Russian campaign on its platform, which was further analyzed by the Atlantic Council and dubbed “Secondary Infektion.” Suspect accounts on Reddit were recently reported to us, along with indicators from law enforcement, and we were able to confirm that they did indeed show a pattern of coordination. We were then able to use these accounts to identify additional suspect accounts that were part of the campaign on Reddit. This group provides us with important attribution for the recent posting of the leaked UK documents, as well as insights into how adversaries are adapting their tactics. > In late October, an account u/gregoratior posted the leaked documents and later reposted by an additional account u/ostermaxnn. Additionally, we were able to find a pocket of accounts participating in vote manipulation on the original post. All of these accounts have the same shared pattern as the original Secondary Infektion group detected, causing us to believe that this was indeed tied to the original group.
freddref 7y ago
Anyone have a link to the leaked documents?
- kitd 7y ago
  Here's the Reddit post that links to them https://www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics/comments/dkzlfc/officialsensitive_great_britain_is_practically/ https://www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics/comments/dkzlfc/offic...
deogeo 7y ago
I'd be cautious about dubbing the Russians 'friends', but 'enemy of my enemy' is worryingly relevant. Why do we have to rely on hostile superpowers to learn what our own governments are doing? Secrecy doesn't give the UK any more leverage in the trade talks - the documents aren't kept secret from the US, but from UK citizens!
nine_zeros 7y ago
The colonizers now begging to become a small colony. This is one for the history books.
- layoutIfNeeded 7y ago
  Sic transit gloria mundi ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
- dang 7y ago
  Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? We're trying for a bit better than internet default here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

30 points by colinprince 7y ago

Related: https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/e74nml/suspected_campaign_from_russia_on_reddit/ https://www.reddit.com/r/redditsecurity/comments/e74nml/susp... > Earlier this year Facebook discovered a Russian campaign on its platform, which was further analyzed by the Atlantic Council and dubbed “Secondary Infektion.” Suspect accounts on Reddit were recently reported to us, along with indicators from law enforcement, and we were able to confirm that they did indeed show a pattern of coordination. We were then able to use these accounts to identify additional suspect accounts that were part of the campaign on Reddit. This group provides us with important attribution for the recent posting of the leaked UK documents, as well as insights into how adversaries are adapting their tactics. > In late October, an account u/gregoratior posted the leaked documents and later reposted by an additional account u/ostermaxnn. Additionally, we were able to find a pocket of accounts participating in vote manipulation on the original post. All of these accounts have the same shared pattern as the original Secondary Infektion group detected, causing us to believe that this was indeed tied to the original group.

freddref 7y ago

Anyone have a link to the leaked documents?

kitd 7y ago
Here's the Reddit post that links to them https://www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics/comments/dkzlfc/officialsensitive_great_britain_is_practically/ https://www.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics/comments/dkzlfc/offic...

deogeo 7y ago

I'd be cautious about dubbing the Russians 'friends', but 'enemy of my enemy' is worryingly relevant. Why do we have to rely on hostile superpowers to learn what our own governments are doing? Secrecy doesn't give the UK any more leverage in the trade talks - the documents aren't kept secret from the US, but from UK citizens!

nine_zeros 7y ago

The colonizers now begging to become a small colony. This is one for the history books.

layoutIfNeeded 7y ago
Sic transit gloria mundi ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
dang 7y ago
Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? We're trying for a bit better than internet default here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html