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Inside Story: How Russians Hacked the Democrats' Emails
US News & World Report ^ | November 3, 2017 | By RAPHAEL SATTER, JEFF DONN and CHAD DAY

Posted on 11/03/2017 12:18:00 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

WASHINGTON (AP) — It was just before noon in Moscow on March 10, 2016, when the first volley of malicious messages hit the Hillary Clinton campaign.

The first 29 phishing emails were almost all misfires. Addressed to people who worked for Clinton during her first presidential run, the messages bounced back untouched.

Except one.

Within nine days, some of the campaign's most consequential secrets would be in the hackers' hands, part of a massive operation aimed at vacuuming up millions of messages from thousands of inboxes across the world.

(Excerpt) Read more at usnews.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: election2016; emails; fakemedia; fakenews; russia; wikileaks
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Short excerpt of a very long article.

Editor's Note: Satter's father, David Satter, is an author and Russia specialist who has been critical of the Russian government. Several of his emails were published last year by hackers and his address is on Secureworks' list.

1 posted on 11/03/2017 12:18:00 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fantasy.


2 posted on 11/03/2017 12:25:08 PM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

That’s not a hack, that’s an idiot falling for a phishing scheme


3 posted on 11/03/2017 12:26:29 PM PDT by sharkhawk (Chelsea Dagger)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Seth Rich


4 posted on 11/03/2017 12:28:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Fake News. It was Seth Rich, not the Russians.


5 posted on 11/03/2017 12:29:25 PM PDT by bkopto
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not that long of a read, unless one is mostly a Headline Drive-by Poster (like me, generally...).

Much detail in a timeline to be examined.


6 posted on 11/03/2017 12:31:08 PM PDT by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

A story with no sources or facts. ok


7 posted on 11/03/2017 12:31:44 PM PDT by outpostinmass2
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Within nine days, some of the campaign's most consequential secrets would be in the hackers' hands, part of a massive operation aimed at vacuuming up millions of messages from thousands of inboxes across the world.

Did the Russians put tens of thousands of confidential US Govt emails onto Anthony Wiener's laptop?

8 posted on 11/03/2017 12:33:21 PM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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Hacking? Sounds more like Podesta was phished, ie, punked through sheer stupidity. And his emails ended up in “Russian-linked” hands whatever that means. Someone who “shares Russian interests?”

That’s where all the “Russian hacking” B/S started. No evidence whatsoever. Hillary had Russia on her brain because of her own dirty dealings with them. She probably figured they were double-crossing her.


9 posted on 11/03/2017 12:33:57 PM PDT by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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There was NO RUSSIAN HACKING!! 😁 🤣 😄

A New Report Raises Big Questions About Last Year’s DNC Hack



Russiagate Is More Fiction Than Fact



Bombshell Report on the DNC Hack by Forensic Experts Claims It Was an Inside Job, Not the Russians

10 posted on 11/03/2017 12:37:16 PM PDT by KavMan
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"A snake was seen on the grounds of the DNC"

The place is infested with them.

11 posted on 11/03/2017 12:40:30 PM PDT by Eagles6
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Russians wanted Bernie elected.


12 posted on 11/03/2017 12:42:49 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This article reads like so much crap, I can almost hear the melodramatic music keying in the background. oh, fear! Oh, gloom and doom!


13 posted on 11/03/2017 12:47:07 PM PDT by Ciexyz (I'm conservative & traditionalist, a Nationalist and a patriot.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I didn’t know Seth Rich was Russian.


14 posted on 11/03/2017 12:47:19 PM PDT by pgkdan (The Silent Majority Stands With TRUMP!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I skimmed the story quickly and determined that it is completely phony.

For one thing, they describe the Clinton campaign's digital security measures as "top-of-the-line." That itself is a joke.

Then they claim that some Russian operative claimed that he had 'thousands of emails' worth of dirt on Clinton, without any documented connection to the DNC or the Clinton campaign.

Lastly (and related to the previous point), they completely ignore the possibility that the "thousands" of emails about Clinton were actually hacked from her illegal unsecured home server, not the computer network of her campaign or the DNC.

15 posted on 11/03/2017 12:49:18 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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It wasn’t a hack, it was a leak and his name was Seth Rich.
He was plugged.


16 posted on 11/03/2017 12:53:31 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Ciexyz

It reads like cover - like oh, the Russians were TARGETING Democrats which meant they must be in colloosion with the dastardly Repubicans.


17 posted on 11/03/2017 12:55:21 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
PAGING JULIAN ASSANGE!

I believe Assange when he said the Russians DIDN'T DO IT. And Assange knows more about Seth Rich's murder than he is willing to admit.

18 posted on 11/03/2017 12:55:22 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin; pgkdan

19 posted on 11/03/2017 12:56:32 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This has to be one of the stupidest, most dishonest articles about the DNC and Clinton leaks.

From the article:

“The AP’s reconstruction— based on a database of 19,000 malicious links recently shared by cybersecurity firm Secureworks — shows how the hackers worked their way around the Clinton campaign’s top-of-the-line digital security to steal chairman John Podesta’s emails in March 2016.”

Podesta’s password was password.

Supposedly everyone in the office had it because Podesta would forget and he needed help to log on.

The article contains no evidence whatsoever. No sources for information. It just repeats what Democrat staffers said.

The FBI and the “intelligence community” never had access to the computers in question.

Never.

So when the story cites the FBI and “intelligence community” they are being dishonest.


20 posted on 11/03/2017 12:58:48 PM PDT by detective
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