These stories CAN be mixed. Putin does have a dark side, and could try to do something like this. That seems a rather small stash for a pedo porn addict, where the common story is not a dozen pictures, but hundreds or thousands. It’s worth tracing the provenance of cases like this. The accused man, if innocent, would be wise to volunteer his systems (on the Q.T.) as bait to whatever the English equivalent of the CIA is, while saying nothing more about it but continuing to pump out his criticism of Russia. England might publicly announce that the fellow was “cleared” but then watch his machines carefully. If Russia is trying to pollute his systems, shortly there will be another, bolder attack with a lot more pictures.
One problem with fake news is that part of it may be true, and then it gets two sets of people going at one another’s throats. Sometimes it really is best to think of whether something is “shades of grey” (no pun intended) rather than all-black, or all-white.
Nah, I'll go with the New York Slimes record of producing the finest Fake News, Propaganda, Disinformation and Lies that money can buy, for the longest period of time in modern history, none finer is available anywhere.
Really?? I work in computer security in a not-so-Podunk place called Cambridge, MA. To me this whole thing— and the whole Russophobic BS in general— is as ludicrous as the Trump white supremacist meme put out by all MSM. I think we are living a time of collective psychosis and deep-rooted hated of Christianity. I think this is at the root of how the left perceives the world, including Trump, Trump supporters, Russia, Syria, et al. I think we are seeing the beginning of the end times battle of good and evil.