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If Snowden is right then Russia wants people to know extra-officially that it was them.
exactly. the DNC hack was traced by 2 agencies and 3 private firms. no one leaves behind that kind of evidence unless they want to get caught
Ed was a Booz Allen Hamilton employee only for a couple of months. He wasn't even out of his probation period as an employee. It's really amazing that in such a short time he was able to siphon all this information out of the NSA. I wonder what more information could he have collected if he had spent a longer time contracting for the NSA. I wonder how much more about the NSA we could know if people who have dedicated…
If you want to put on your tinfoil hat for a second, consider the fact that Snowden started his career in the military, then moved to CIA, then moved to Booz Allen. It's entirely possible that Snowden is an ongoing CIA op to discredit their rival NSA as part of a turf war.
If Snowden were a CIA deep-cover operative against another US institution, couldn't they have found him a better safe-house than in Russia?
Having no experience with the CIA, maybe I just vastly under-estimate the amenities of Russian safe-houses. ;)
I posted about this in a different thread with a different throwaway, because I had suspicions that Snowden knew about the whole EG auction thing anyways. The writing has been on the walls. This is why there is so much hype over what appears at a first glance to be an obvious scam, because there is a lot of potential for civilians to learn a lot about how state-sponsored hacking actually operates. It's very different…
Struxnet was used against a foreign adversary to disable nuclear bomb-making capabilities. That sounds pretty useful to me.
What would be interesting is learning where these came from and how they were used. If Ed's musing is right and there's evidence these exploits were used in democratic elections here in the US then there's going to be hell to pay.
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I'm fond of tweeting a screenshot of longer text, e.g. from the notes app.
I don't know if you care about this, but when you post screenshots of text, make sure you also provide a transcription, or you'll be excluding visually impaired users from accessing your content.
>8) Circumstantial evidence and conventional wisdom indicates Russian responsibility. Here's why that is significant: Interesting that he's not afraid to point the finger at Russia while still relying on them for protection. My respect for him just went up.
To be fair, he also all but accuses NSA of interfering with US ally's Elections.
There was another article posted that pointed to the DoD-assigned IP of (something like) "30.40.50.60" that was referenced in one of the files. I'm fairly certain that was just a coincidence. However, I did find that one of the autogenerated shellcodes for EXTRABACON contained this DoD-assigned IP: 155.222.211.8 ( http://whois.domaintools.com/155.222.211.8 ). The OrgName is "DoD Network Information Center". This appe…
Many people complain about the Twitter format and I agree. Fortunately, Twitter allows people to use about 2KB of text in a tweet, if you encode it as a URL: The URL: http://because.a.tweet.doesnt.fit.lucb1e.com/?text=From%3A+h... Example tweet: https://twitter.com/lucb1e/status/765544321747718144 This uses a third party site to display, but the data is all in the URL. Anyone could verify that the site (my site in th…
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If you want to put on your tinfoil hat for a second, consider the fact that Snowden started his career in the military, then moved to CIA, then moved to Booz Allen. It's entirely possible that Snowden is an ongoing CIA op to discredit their rival NSA as part of a turf war.
It's also entirely possible that unicorns are real.
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It takes Russia pointing this out to make us lose trust in the U.S.? I think the U.S. has done this all on their own. Snowden was just the latest whistleblower showing the world they can't be trusted. There were others before him, but it got swept under the rug. We all know the U.S. election system is flawed to a point of being broken and thus democracy as we like to believe it's supposed to work doesn't even exist.…
Why do people insist on calling the US a democracy ? It is a Constitutional Republic with the only democratic process being the representatives you elect .... represent you ... sometimes... if they feel like it.... unless they have been bribe^H^H^H^H lobbied to do otherwise.
If you elect incompetent, or corrupt, or evil representatives, it's still a democracy.