Posted on 12/29/2016 4:07:46 PM PST by Cheerio
“I read the “report.” It could have been cut and pasted from my Norton Antivirus newsletter or the stuff disseminated by my IT Department at work.”
Yup. As someone who ran an IT business, it looks like typical hacks we were dealing with in DOS days. If my shorts were that open to the wind, I’d hope someone phished me to put me out of my misery.
“And it ain’t the Russians compromising servers of local sprinkler repair companies.”
Bwahahaha. Been there, done that, I used to do IT for a living.
Heck, my personal web server gets banged by Russkies and Chicoms every day.
Russians have been hacking for years and not a peep. This is just a bunch of sore losers who can’t face the fact that they lost an election.
“.......Using the harvested credentials, APT28 was able to gain access and steal content, likely leading to the exfiltration of information from multiple senior party members. The U.S. Government assesses that information was leaked to the press and publicly disclosed........”
So the “proof” is “likely leading” and “U.S. Government assesses that the information was leaked to the press.”
OK Gov. whiz-kids, WHO LEAKED WHAT TO WHOM AND WHERE IS YOUR PROOF, CAN YOU SHOW SPECIFIC NSA METADATA, DO YOU HAVE EMAILS DISCUSSING THE HACKING ASSIGNMENTS OR RESULTS?
THERE IS NO PROOF THERE IS JUST “LIKELY LEADING” AND “ASSESSES THAT.” Someone should be terribly embarrassed by all this.
(Poster on ZH):
Davy Crockett Dec 29, 2016 4:46 PM
This is a 13 page document
Page 13 is how to contact the DHS and FBI, should you ever want to
Pages 6 - 12 is just a general vomitting of standard “how to secure you server” advice that has no relation to anything specific.
Page 5 - a 19 line PHP script (God help us) that you can run to see if your server has been infected by a specific root kit.
Page 4 - a list of hacker groups from Russia, supposedly. PinchedDuke, Tsar Team, and Energetic Bear to name a few. Must be Russian
Pages 2-3 - a meaningless graphic that says that “Advanced Persistent Threat 28 and 29” are Russians ‘because we said so’
Page 1 - Boilerplate Introduction
I have to say, there is no meat here. The only pages that even pretend to be meat are pages 2, 3, and 4. Those pages are actually completely devoid of actual facts. The other 10 pages don’t even pretend to have any actual evidence or facts.
If I had handed a "report" like that in to my 5th grade teacher she would have made me do it over and given me a 2nd report to do to get a grade on the assignment.
>>Passing off a pair of twos like a straight flush.<<
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I was thinking of the term, “Four-flusher.”
That’s a cheater that flashes a hand with four diamonds and a heart and tries to rake in the pot.
If caught, they say “Oops. My bad. Must be the bad lighting.”
>>Passing off a pair of twos like a straight flush.<<
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I was thinking of the term, “Four-flusher.”
That’s a cheater that flashes a hand with four diamonds and a heart and tries to rake in the pot.
If caught, they say “Oops. My bad. Must be the bad lighting.”
i did learn one thing from the “report”. Just like braindead Podesta was tricked by phishing email, the DNC was also compromised by a phishing email. In the case of the latter it led to alleged “Russian hacker” activity, but more likely resulted in the theft of some user’s emails. A successful phishing event is not evidence of anything other than simple stupidity on the part of the victim. It doesn’t not point to a sophisticated actor with sophisticated tools, quote the opposite.
Are you as blown away as I am that the NSA and FBI would actually publish a report alleging hacking with the sole piece of evidence being the same piece of code that you’ve pulled off of the kind of compromised web hosts that individuals and small businesses have been routinely dealing with for over a decade?
This is like the report writer’s version of blinking T-O-R-T-U-R-E in Morse Code.
> A successful phishing event is not evidence of anything other than simple stupidity on the part of the victim.
It’s also evidence that the victim is completely unqualified to handle any kind of sensitive material and thus for public office altogether.
and let Hillary burn through 1.5 billion
HAHAHAHAHA
The ones who put this fake report together might want to start
looking for other jobs.
This is the type of swamp that needs to be drained.
The sooner, the better.
The “report” is such a joke it reeks of political appointee cut and paste. I can’t believe any career IC people would sign off on that garbage knowing President Trump is 3 weeks away.
“Are you as blown away as I am that the NSA and FBI would actually publish a report alleging hacking with the sole piece of evidence being the same piece of code that you’ve pulled off of the kind of compromised web hosts that individuals and small businesses have been routinely dealing with for over a decade?”
Hell yes I’m shocked. I thought for sure this would have to be some undetected operating system back door with tunneling through the routers, all run by cyber experts back filling their traces. This is more a low level attack done by first year college cyber punks still living at their mom’s house.
Obama’s attempting to put Trump in a box...
And yet almost every single leftist out there swallows this hook, line and sinker, without question or thought. This is largely because they have been programmed to want to.
519 hours.
Trump needs a site where he methodically and logically deconstructs whatever the prevailing leftist mantra of the moment it. He can tweet the page as needed.
Moment is, not it.
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