Hacker Claims He Helped Enrique Peña Nieto Win Mexican presidential Election

The Guardian ^ | Friday 1 April 2016 | Jonathan Watts, David Agren

[nickcarraway]

Andrés Sepúlveda said he and other hackers installed malware to monitor opponents during 2012 campaign as part of ‘black propaganda’ operati

A digital dark arts campaign by mercenary hackers helped Enrique Peña Nieto win Mexico’s 2012 presidential election, according to an imprisoned Colombian hacker who says he was involved.

Andrés Sepúlveda, an online campaign strategist, claimed he had also helped to manipulate elections in nine countries across Latin America by stealing data, installing malware and creating fake waves of enthusiasm and derision on social media.

In an interview with Bloomberg Businessweek, the Colombian – who is currently serving a 10-year prison sentence – boasted of his ability to hack into campaign networks and manipulate opinion.

“My job was to do actions of dirty war and psychological operations, black propaganda, rumours – the whole dark side of politics that nobody knows exists but everyone can see,” the 31-year-old told Bloomberg.

However, Sepúlveda’s claims are fiercely contested by some of those he accuses. Juan José Rendón, the Miami-based political consultant who allegedly hired the hacker, told the Guardian he had only met him once and used his service only indirectly via subcontractors for website design in 2005.

[Trumpinator]

He works for the GOPe now?

[nickcarraway]

That would explain how a Democrat is winning in the Republican primary.

[Trumpinator]

Yes, we all know the GOPe wants Trump to win.

[nickcarraway]

True. They’ve spent $0 and haven’t lifted a finger against him. And he’s already started taking social issues out of the platform for them.

[Trumpinator]

ha and ha.

[jsanders2001]

> Andrés Sepúlveda, an online campaign strategist, claimed he had also helped to manipulate elections in nine countries across Latin America by stealing data, installing malware and creating fake waves of enthusiasm and derision on social media.

In Mexico they put them in jail for this. Over here ValJar hires them.

[dsc]

“In Mexico they put them in jail for this.”

Goes a long way toward explaining how the Magic Negro from Nairobi got elected and reelected.

[savagesusie]

We have proof that the elections were rigged, even for JFK. Whomever thinks our elections are not controlled by the super-elite sodomites are living in La-La Land. Solzhenitsyn stated that our “Free” Press was worse than Pravda’s in 1978-—so guess what? We don’t hear the truth-—ever. Not from the MSM.

Not only does the MSM lie and are controlled so are all our textbooks-—by CAIR and Marxists. That German journalist just revealed that he was controlled for 24 years by the CIA. Our CIA has ALWAYS been controlled by the super-elite sodomites....since when it was created and they owned our “newspapers” since the early 1900s when JP Morgan bought all the major APs.

[dp0622]

the only argument against that is Reagan. certainly not the Bushes.

[daisy12]

The Bloomberg article

http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-to-hack-an-election/

**Last year, based on anonymous sources, the Colombian media reported that Rendón was working for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Rendón calls the reports untrue. The campaign did approach him, he says, but he turned them down because he dislikes Trump. “To my knowledge we are not familiar with this individual,” says Trump’s spokeswoman, Hope Hicks. “I have never heard of him, and the same goes for other senior staff members.” But Rendón says he’s in talks with another leading U.S. presidential campaign—he wouldn’t say which—to begin working for it once the primaries wrap up and the general election begins.**

[justrepublican]

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