The Russian's did it, they screwed me!
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
When the Gennifer Flowers released some of her phone messages with Bill Clinton, the Clinton campaign said they were edited. Bill later called Mario Cuomo and apologized for implying he was connected to the Mafia on one of the tapes.
The Russian's did it, they screwed me!
Exactly what I was thinking.
It would take an army of people to “edit”, set a narrative and proof 20K emails in that period of time. Nice try Baghdad Bob.
It doesn’t matter, dem voters really are very stupid.
“What difference does it make?”
Trump has this.
They don’t HAVE the originals. They DELETED the originals.
The comments at the source are seemingly made by people living an alternate reality.
GOOD CATCH!!!
In order to claim that these emails have been altered the writer of this piece would need to have access to the original. If that is the case then why doesn’t he show the originals to us so that we can compare them with the alleged altered emails?
“content from the DNC emails accessed by Russian hackers may have been altered “
“accessed by Russian hackers” begs the question.
There isn’t any evidence that the Russians—who did thoroughly pillaged Shrillary’s defenseless State dept. e-account—accessed the DNC e-mails.
Unless the DNC is prepared to admit that no important information is safe with them either. Or that they are colossal numbskulls. Or both.
This `rat death spiral is so entertaining.
Is this the new narrative from the left?
Welcome back Debbie!
There must be something real interesting to be released... Stay tuned...
If you trust Debka.....
http://www.debka.com/article/25570/The-DNC-emails-were-not-hacked-by-Russian-GRU
She was fired because she didn’t come with this Russians-altered-the-emails excuse fact enough to mitigate the harm to ze Pahrty.
DEMS: If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t trying’ and if you can’t lie fast enough on your feet when faced with opposition attacks (ok, facts), you’re no longer of use to us!
HF
Has Trump ever met Putin?
Has Trump ever corresponded with Putin?
Has Trump ever given Putin a Reset Button?
Has Trump ever told the President of Russia that he would be more flexible regarding U.S. Policy after the Election?
Not a new narrative, the Orwellian exercise that is necessary in the face of undeniable reality.
So, Hillary Clinton, acting SOS has an unsecured server where she keeps classified e-mails. Yet, there is “no evidence” of that server having been hacked. Oh no, the Russians would have absolutely no, zero interest in hacking the server of the serving SOS. Can’t fault Hillary there.
But, the secured server of the DNC? Oh yeah, no question the Russians did that. I mean, who needs evidence. The Russians can be assumed to have done this 100% certain. They just were dying to ruin Hillary’s campaign because they have just had such a hard time of it under the Obama/Clinton foreign policy regime. Oh, and Putin reportedly likes Trump so therefore this is Trumps fault. What did Trump know and when did he know it.
Another Orwellian example, a guy walks into a gay bar, blows people away while pledging loyalty to ISIS and shouting the usual accompanying dialogue. Somehow it is turned into a mass shooting, hate crime brought about by right wing, white Republican hate groups.
Provided by Lucy Ramirez?
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