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Hacker Releases More Democratic Party Documents

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Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut:

“It’s hard for me to imagine how just having a bunch of numbers, cellphones and emails would in any way affect the election,” he said. “It wasn’t totally unexpected.”

“Someone could cause a lot of damage if they were able to send emails out from a member’s account, but I’m not hearing that that’s a risk at this point.”

Me: I have yet to see a cryptographically signed e-mail from a politician, and without that, spoofing such a message would be almost trivial. Do they keep their cybersecurity well hidden from the public?

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Post by rbanffy »

thyrsus wrote: post #2

Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut: “It’s hard for me to imagine how just having a bunch of numbers, cellphones and emails would in any way affect the election,” he said. “It wasn’t totally unexpected.” “Someone could cause a lot of damage if they were able to send emails out from a member’s account, but I’m not hearing that that’s a risk at this point.” Me: I have yet to see a cryptographically signed e-mail fr…

Securing a politician's computer is 30% infosec and 99.9% conditioning: deliver a painful shock when the politician tries to open Facebook from the same computer they do their emails, when they download an attachment from an unsigned email, etc...

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Post by unfunco »

rbanffy wrote: post #3
thyrsus wrote: post #2

Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut: “It’s hard for me to imagine how just having a bunch of numbers, cellphones and emails would in any way affect the election,” he said. “It wasn’t totally unexpected.” “Someone could cause a lot of damage if they were able to send emails out from a member’s account, but I’m not hearing that that’s a risk at this point.” Me: I have yet to see a cryptographically signed e-mail fr…

Securing a politician's computer is 30% infosec and 99.9% conditioning: deliver a painful shock when the politician tries to open Facebook from the same computer they do their emails, when they download an attachment from an unsigned email, etc...

129.9% secure.

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Post by ThrowMeAway314 »

rbanffy wrote: post #3
thyrsus wrote: post #2

Representative Jim Himes of Connecticut: “It’s hard for me to imagine how just having a bunch of numbers, cellphones and emails would in any way affect the election,” he said. “It wasn’t totally unexpected.” “Someone could cause a lot of damage if they were able to send emails out from a member’s account, but I’m not hearing that that’s a risk at this point.” Me: I have yet to see a cryptographically signed e-mail fr…

Securing a politician's computer is 30% infosec and 99.9% conditioning: deliver a painful shock when the politician tries to open Facebook from the same computer they do their emails, when they download an attachment from an unsigned email, etc...

Or we could just replace out politicians with urandom

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Post by gus_massa »

chvid wrote: post #6

Why does the actual source: https://guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/guccifer-2-0-hack... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12279977 get flag-killed immediately where as this somewhat colored article gets on the frontpage?

It was killed by users flags.

I didn't flag it, but my guess is that it was flagged because if you don't look to carefully it seams to be a rehash of the old leaks, or a crackpot site with fake documents. The nytimes.com articles have more credibility and are better written.

In this cases you can vouch for the article to unkill it, and also email the mods hn@ycombinator.com. In some cases they remove the flags and reset the time counter of the article.

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Post by DyslexicAtheist »

chvid wrote: post #6

Why does the actual source: https://guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/08/12/guccifer-2-0-hack... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12279977 get flag-killed immediately where as this somewhat colored article gets on the frontpage?

... was wondering too. The screenshots in the NYT article look like "teaser-advertisements", while the actual sources are a big taboo.

Keep in mind that Guccifer2 isn't a lone hacker as initially portrayed. Guccifer2 is a cover for APT-28/APT-29 (GRU). So if anything then this leak has to be considered for what it was: A foreign nation meddling in the elections of another. Current Russian meddling fits seamlessly into Russia's bigger doctrine on Cyber Defense Strategies [0][1][2][3][4]

[0] https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...

[1] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Geers-Cy...

[2] https://blog.valbonne-consulting.com/2016/08/06/smartcitiess...

[3] http://www.naa.mil.lv/~/media/NAA/AZPC/Publikacijas/PP%2002-...

[4] http://www.ifri.org/en/publications/enotes/proliferation-pap...

PS: there is now also guccifer 3.0 :-) and I'm hitting reload like crazy https://guccifer3.wordpress.com/

EDIT: anyone interested in this subject also look for 'Gerasimov Doctrine' for a thrilling read.

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