Posted on 07/26/2016 10:15:25 AM PDT by ncfool
Russian Hackers Altered Emails Before Release to Wikileaks Source: Motherboard Vice, NPR, and MSNBC
New evidence is emerging that content from the DNC emails accessed by Russian hackers may have been altered before being released to Wikileaks. This added layer of information joined with the timing of the release and Trump’s cozy relationship with Putin paint a picture of deep collusion and planning aimed at fracturing any potential Democratic unity at the most crucial point in the 2016 presidential election cycle.
Thomas Rid at Motherboard Vice reported on the discovery this morning:
The metadata in the leaked documents are perhaps most revealing: one dumped document was modified using Russian language settings, by a user named “Феликс Эдмундович,” a code name referring to the founder of the Soviet Secret Police, the Cheka, memorialised in a 15-ton iron statue in front of the old KGB headquarters during Soviet times. The original intruders made other errors: one leaked document included hyperlink error messages in Cyrillic, the result of editing the file on a computer with Russian language settings. After this mistake became public, the intruders removed the Cyrillic information from the metadata in the next dump and carefully used made-up user names from different world regions, thereby confirming they had made a mistake in the first round.
Then there is the language issue. “I hate being attributed to Russia,” the Guccifer 2.0 account told Motherboard, probably accurately. The person at the keyboard then claimed in a chat with Motherboard’s Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai that Guccifer 2.0 was from Romania, like the original Guccifer, a well-known hacker. But when asked to explain his hack in Romanian, he was unable to respond colloquially and without errors. Guccifer 2.0’s English initially was also weak, but in subsequent posts the quality improved sharply, albeit only on political subjects, not in technical matters—an indication of a team of operators at work behind the scenes.
Rid went on to add:
The metadata show that the Russian operators apparently edited some documents, and in some cases created new documents after the intruders were already expunged from the DNC network on June 11. A file called donors.xls, for instance, was created more than a day after the story came out, on June 15, most likely by copy-pasting an existing list into a clean document.
Although so far the actual content of the leaked documents appears not to have been tampered with, manipulation would fit an established pattern of operational behaviour in other contexts, such as troll farms or planting fake media stories. Subtle (or not so subtle) manipulation of content may be in the interest of the adversary in the future. Documents that were leaked by or through an intelligence operation should be handled with great care, and journalists should not simply treat them as reliable sources.
Read more: http://www.peacock-panache.com/2016/07/russian-hackers-emails-wikileaks-23928.html
ETL my friend, your party and your president needs your backup on this theory.
Saturday - “the emails are fakes!”
Sunday - “ok the emails are real, but it’s Debbie Wasser Shultz’s fault!”
Monday - “ok Debbie Wasserman’s got an even better job now on the campaign, but the emails were hacked by the russians!”
Tuesday - “ok we don’t have any proof that the russians hacked, but we have proof they CHANGED the emails!”
I POSTED THAT EARLIER TODAY!
I said there is no reason to even believe the emails were real- except for their total panic at their release. They KNEW they were real.
They cannot prove the emails came from the DNC, they really could have made them all up.
But their panic and firing DWS says more than anything.
If they were fake that would have been the FIRST thing they jumped on. They would have read some of them and said “Huh? We didn't write these”
“If so then why apologize?”
Why fire Debbie Wasserman Shultz?
Don’t believe it for one nanosecond.
Barf alert?
‘If so then why apologize?’
You are brilliant.
The “Originals” would show conversations like: “Direct Order from DWS, the DNC will operate with transparent indifference to any of the candidates running for the democratic Presidential nomination—NO favoritism allowed.”
And, “I love you too. No Homogenized milk is in the refrigerator.”
Anything and everything not to talk about the content which details payment for access to the president to discuss policy, payment for consideration for appointments. And DNC control over the media deciding what can be covered and what must be suppressed.
The party of corruption continues sailing along, and the former chief of that ship is now in charge of Hillary’s 50 state campaign, a cushy payoff for a job well done.
Well that Democrats continue to shout about Citizen’s United and demand that it be overturned; they never were good sports about competition.
Almost too funny to be but its a LGBT blogger. I think his brain is fried.
Eight paragraphs in:
Although so far the actual content of the leaked documents appears not to have been tampered with,
They are desperate. A good sign.
5.56mm
Ya gotta admire the intellectual acumen of the HDNC’s criminal think tank. Great parry and dodge. Blowing smoke; dust in the eyes; 9O% of the vacuum tube generation can’t confirm it. And the PR operatives will promote the story 24/7. I am impressed!
Next thing from the lying media Trump will have been a KGB mole all these years.
Exactly. Grubers “stupid” voters will believe anything. And yes, they are stupid if they believe this lie.
Surprised that Hollywood hasn’t produced a video that shows the hackers doing the evil deed.
They are deleted already and the servers lost is my guess
They pretty much are already implying it.
I call bullshit!
The fact that the DNC/MSM/liberal socialist alliance are trying so hard to discredit these emails that it borders on the obscene.
Too late, all of the rats have been flushed out of the sewers for all to see.
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