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
“If so then why apologize?”
yep, now that far-left loons have “proven” it’s all a Russian fake-out, they’re gonna have to hire back DWS too, right?
And with that digital dirty talkin’ , the purveyors of the story must be tellin’ the truth!
Exactly
All the better.
Prove it.
Release the originals.
Otherwise shut up, known liars.
BS, the hackets used a rusdian keyboard so as to mislead investigators.
Assuge says maybe the leaker was the 22 year old DNC staffer that was executed last week on a street in DC
Don’t you believe it!!
Yeah and the dog ate my homework.
Liberals will do anything other than take personal responsibility for their own actions. It’s a joke.
Lol, they’re desperate. Metadata is ALWAYS modified when an email arrives at a sever. Receiving servers append the message header for their receipt. This will of course differ from the intended server’s metadata for the same message. Basically each server appends the metatdata of messages it receives saying in effect “I received this message, sent from this sender, via this server, at this time”.
Fake but accurate? They haven’t even found evidence that Russian hackers are involved, have they?
And elderly lady I once knew used to tell me her parents would always say to her, after she had been naughty, “Thy Sins Shall Find Thee Out!”
You’ve nailed their strategy
But Hillary hit the RESET button, shouldn’t her dear friend Vladimir be trying to help her? What’s up, isn’t she some kind of foreign policy Yoda?
No, it’s Manafort.
If you could first know where you are and whither you are tending, you could better judge what to do and how to do it. You initiated a policy to tolerate the Marxist-Alinsky radicals and let them rant; not only has it not ceased but was constantly augmented by decades of infiltration and indoctrination. You now have two Americas. In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure, permanently, half statist and half free; I do not expect the house to fall; but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other.The question today is either the opponents of statism will arrest the further spread of it and place it on course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become permanent.
Have you no tendency to the latter condition?
Let anyone who doubts carefully contemplate that now almost complete legal combination - piece of machinery, so to speak - compounded of the Republican Party hierarchy and the ruling class statism's chief architects.
I noticed several blank spaces where names seemed to have been redacted in some of the emails.
Not sure what the point of hacking it would be if you’re going to alter it.
If we were to believe the logic of this the hackers could have just save themselves the trouble and generated sets of completely fraudulent docs.
The arkancide happened at 420 in the morning. Is that a drug reference?
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