Posted on 09/27/2016 1:31:39 PM PDT by Be Careful
Those Russian hackers never sleep.
Having had most of their computers hacked, a new threat has emerged for Democrats. Reuters reports that FBI investigators believe "foreign hackers" have targeted mobile phones used by "a small number of Democratic Party figures, possibly including elected officials" according to four political and government sources said on Tuesday.
Reuters notes that the hacking attempts occurred within the last month or so, and adds that two sources said investigators believe that, like hackers who earlier attacked the central data servers of key Democratic Party organizations, the mobile phone attacks were carried out by hackers connected to the Russian government.
One source said that some of those whose phones were targeted by hackers had been asked by the FBI to turn over their phones so that investigators can "image" them.
While this amusing, and seemingly never-ending barrage, of accusations aimed at the Kremlin long ago entered the twilight zone of McCarthyist paranoia, we point out that such media "warnings" - most recently in the case of the DC Leaks hack of Soros' Open Society Foundation - usually take place just before a major data dump is revealed or leaked. Which suggests that we may be due for another such notable disclosure.
There is of course, a more conspiratorial explanation: should enough compromising data leak, especially if it includes information that can pressure Hillary in the polls, then the DHS can simply accuse Russia of electoral interference and call off the elections as a matter of national security. We can only hope that this particular conspiracy theory will remain purely in the realm of "theory", and not "fact."
This could be part of Obama’s plan to suspend elections.......
Was it an ‘attempt’ or was it successful?
If successful, then this could cause me buy a whole new bag of popcorn................
The FBI investigators are correct. The Russians are going after soft targets for political intelligence. There is nothing new here.
Those wascally ol’ Wussians at it again!
What I want to know is did he weigh 400 pounds?
But...salient question....how can we ever know if this is true? Oh yeah....because Comey tells us so.......as far as I know, this could all be a ruse to justify suspending elections...and no one would ever be able to say otherwise.
All 13 of Hillary’s phones?
One must presume that all electronic forms of communication are hackible. It is the only logical conclusion. We in business decided that long ago. Ben Ladin decided the same thing.
Russians, Chinese, Indians, Israelis, Iranians, Germans...........hell, even Azerbaijanis could probably do it.............
I think the Russians are smart enough to realize that Screaming-Harpy-Witch Hillary will start a nuclear war because she's a Psychotic lying B*tch.
I think they are attacking the Democrats because they now realize the Democrats are a threat to civilization.
Ok, how many calls to George Soros?
“I think they are attacking the Democrats because they now realize the Democrats are a threat to civilization.”
Good point. I bet there are even some democrats whose eye have been opened,too.
In some cases, all they need to do is watch your screen typing habits to get your pass codes and wireless transmissions from cell phones are not rigorously encoded or encrypted.
You are responsible for the security of your phone use.
I do not allow my phones to handle , download or transmit emails or confidential when I am dealing with restricted or confidential information
I had to laugh when Hillary was talking about the Russians trying to hack into our government, etc. Yeah, and we have our own hacking operation. So do the Chicoms. So do the Norks. So do the Indians, and Pakis. The Brits probably do it at the satellite intercept level, but they and Canada have also been involved in echelon. Why WOULDN’T the Russkies have a go at it? Knowing that, why would you be so careless?
Mobile phones transmit calls via data packets.
Meaning they have recordings of the calls they made and received.
You want to see CW II really quickly?
Suspend elections.
The FBI can KMA. That goes for the entire agency and everyone who works for them. I don’t believe a word of what they say. FBI, KMA.
How do they get "Russian" out of "foreign"?
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