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FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by pessimizer »

twic wrote: post #42
spankyspangler wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not just a presidential candidate, but a president. Did you know that after all those years of investigations, all those years of the house intelligence committee chairman and others insisting that there was "ample evidence" that Trump colluded with Putin to hack the election... in the end, The Mueller report admitted that no evidence was ever found to substantiate Trump or his associates or campaign ever working wit…

It's not just that - some people will still, today, insist that Trump was working with Russia. When you point out that investigations found nothing, they point to some random minor finding as if that vindicates them. It's genuinely concerning.

People will still insist that Saddam Hussain did 9/11.

Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by nawgz »

tored wrote: post #160
mint2 wrote: post #127

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Let’s be real. There was a trump Russia thing. It’s beyond sketchy to have your campaign manager and his aid literally provide internal polling data to Russian intelligence. And Russia was undeniably trying to help trump win, and trump was undeniably pleased that was happening. I don’t get why people deny this happened.

Can you provide a source on that claim of polling data to Russian intelligence?

I googled "polling data to Russian intelligence"

https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-paul-manafort-russia...

Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by gebruikersnaam »

tored wrote: post #144
teclordphrack2 wrote: post #130

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Na, cause Bernies team did not speak with the russians unlike trumps team whom spoke with, meet with, and gave information to the russians.

What information to whom?

Treasury: Manafort associate passed 'sensitive' campaign data to Russian intelligence [1]

The government finally connects the line from Trump’s campaign to Russian intelligence [2]

[1] https://thehill.com/policy/national-security/548447-treasury...

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/04/15/governmen...

Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by mprovost »

notafraudster wrote: post #136
conradev wrote: post #116

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[EDIT: I misread] > Even if you disable backups, whenever you correspond with someone that has backups enabled those messages are still accessible to Apple. That last bit is not true. From Apple’s security PDF: > When Messages in iCloud is enabled, iMessage, Business Chat, text (SMS), and MMS messages are removed from the user’s existing iCloud Backup and are instead stored in an end-to-end encrypted CloudKit contain…

The quoted parent says that if Adam sends a message to Bob, and Adam has backups off, but Bob has backups on, that Bob's copy of the message Adam sent is accessible to authorities.

Bob is one end of end-to-end.

Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by runjake »

mc32 wrote: post #76
runjake wrote: post #68

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The fact that multiple people very close to Trump (Manafort, Stone, Gates, Flynn), both personally and operational, met with Russian intelligence agents and assets helps the argument that the DOJ should be looking into Trump himself.

Hmm, should they likewise look into J Kerry meeting with foreign diplomats whilst not being in the then current administration too?

Sure, if it is warranted. I am not partisan. I presume you do not mean while he was acting SecState.

Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by njarboe »

mc32 wrote: post #64
piokoch wrote: post #54

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I am only surprised child porn has not been found on her computer yet. And there is no report from some hotel room cleaner that he or she was raped by Elbakyan. Those "stolen" military secrets published in journals anyone can purchase for a few bucks does not even sounds scary. Apparently FBI got lazy these days, maybe because of all that Covid mess.

If the FBI wanted to catch spies, I bet they could find a few at Los Alamos labs. I’m sure there are. Besides, military contractors are constantly “inadvertently” sending classified materials to questionable third parties and get fined at most and no one gets prosecuted and sent to the penn.

"I bet they could find a few at Los Alamos labs".

They have, but unfortunately they get innocent people and lock them in solitary confinement for months eventually resulting in $1.6 million dollar pay outs and presidential apologies to the accused.[1]

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wen_Ho_Lee

Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by tylerhou »

spankyspangler wrote: post #60
knightofmars wrote: post #53

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The phrase "Russian collusion" has become a catch-all for anything involving Russian influence, it's ridiculous and it over simplifies reality. The basis for the (actual) Russian collusion investigation had a reasonable starting point. Joseph Mifsud[0], the guy that nobody can find right now. It was absolutely worth investigating and it's disappointing that it became the dog-and-pony show it did. And Russia interferi…

No I don't think it did have a reasonable starting point at all. Extra-ordinary claims require extra ordinary evidence, and as it turned out (as explained in Mueller's report), there never was any evidence for it. I'm not talking about vague suggestions of Russian interference, I'm talking about the conspiracy theory that Trump or his campaign colluded with Putin to hack (or otherwise subvert) the election. It never…

> as it turned out (as explained in Mueller's report), there never was any evidence for it.

Can you actually quote the report to support your claims? The report actually says that there was evidence to support communication/collusion between the Trump campaign & Russian officials, but not enough evidence [that we know of] to support criminal charges.

This is for two reasons: 1) The "dirt" given at the Trump tower meeting was not valuable enough to prosecute under campaign finance laws. 2) The individuals present at the meeting did not know that their conduct was illegal, so they could not be charged under the law.

So really, Mueller's report said that there was not enough evidence to meet a criminal prosecution, but there was evidence. That's a very different claim than "no evidence."

It's also not possible to prove a negative ("there was never evidence"), and given the numerous cases of obstruction, it is possible that the evidence needed to support criminal charges was covered up.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/01/26/us/politics/t...

Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by smoldesu »

dukeofdoom wrote: post #158
smoldesu wrote: post #148

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If Rudy Guilliani is defending the democratically elected president of the United States, he should be beholden to the interests of the people. If our government has the legal ability to attain this data, this is a textbook example of how and why to use it.

This is mostly nonsense. The only legal duty of lawyer is to defend his client. No lawyer has the burden to be "beholden to the interests of the people" whatever double speak that means.

Well it's a good thing this has already been settled in a court of law then. No sense in arguing it online if our wonderful nation has already made an official ruling.

Re: FBI Has Gained Access to Sci-Hub Founder's Apple Account, Email Claims

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Post by machinelearning »

DyslexicAtheist wrote: post #9
machinelearning wrote: post #3

Who have vested interests in stopping something like sci-hub?

this company: https://www.linkedin.com/company/elsevier

Let me rephrase, who is trying to take this down and has sufficient leverage to have the FBI focused on this instead of the multitude of other important things they could be doing.
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