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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 TechBro8615 »

ryanmarsh wrote: post #184
roody15 wrote: post #171

Doesn’t the FBI have better things to do? Seriously Sci-Hub is more of a public good than a serious threat to the US.

You must be new here. The flight logs of Jeffrey Epstein's jet were obtained via subpoena and published in the press and not a single indictment was brought forth from it. Every time there's a mass shooting we hear the shooter was "known to the FBI". The FBI has better things to do than harass Elbakyan, but it won't do them.

The FBI is a political organization and domestic spying machine. The US is a police state.

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Post by __blockcipher__ »

dillondoyle wrote: post #188
fao_ wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Apparently FBI got lazy these days, maybe because of all that Covid mess. The FBI has always been lazy. They sent notes to MLK stating he should commit suicide, after all.

Seems more malicious than lazy.

Of course it’s malicious. In context they were making a tongue-in-cheek joke intended to expose those that never heard about the MLK letter(s) to their existence.

In other news, I only learned about the assassination of Fred Hampton quite recently. That’s a fun one.

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

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Post by ed25519FUUU »

mint2 wrote: post #127
temp8964 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the FBI can use the Russia thing on a presidential candidate, they can use it on anybody.

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.

There was a lot of Russian collusion going into 2016, just not from the people you expect it.

For example, Fusion GPS paying Veselnitskaya, using her to lobby _against_ the magnitsky act, and also supplying the infamous "dossier" which was paid for by the DNC.

The whole thing is a cobweb or power players who use connections and ignorant US media to parrot back narratives, divide events into political tribes, and isolate people from the truth. It's a dumpster fire where people end up believing things that are untrue and they don't even know why.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/analysis-mueller-and...

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

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Post by tootie »

temp8964 wrote: post #23
mc32 wrote: post #8

Oh boy, that ever useful boogeyman >“In December 2019, the Washington Post reported that Elbakyan was being investigated by the US Justice Department on suspicion that she “may” be working with Russian intelligence to “steal U.S. military secrets...” When you start trotting that out, you know it’s a witch-hunt because if they had real reasons they’d have stated them, since they don’t they offer vague insinuations cou…

If the FBI can use the Russia thing on a presidential candidate, they can use it on anybody.

This is a very weasely statement. The FBI and multiple other agencies investigated a very real campaign of election influence that swirled around a particular candidate. No one ever made an accusation that wasn't supported by facts. There was no concerted effort to punish a candidate. Proxies to the candidate were tried and convicted for their very real crimes.

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

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Post by tootie »

mc32 wrote: post #8

Oh boy, that ever useful boogeyman >“In December 2019, the Washington Post reported that Elbakyan was being investigated by the US Justice Department on suspicion that she “may” be working with Russian intelligence to “steal U.S. military secrets...” When you start trotting that out, you know it’s a witch-hunt because if they had real reasons they’d have stated them, since they don’t they offer vague insinuations cou…

I think it's equally naive to think that Russia doesn't have their mitts into a lot of shady business. You have a right to be skeptical but this could easily be true.

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Post by 0x5f3759df-i »

TechBro8615 wrote: post #191
ryanmarsh wrote: post #184

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You must be new here. The flight logs of Jeffrey Epstein's jet were obtained via subpoena and published in the press and not a single indictment was brought forth from it. Every time there's a mass shooting we hear the shooter was "known to the FBI". The FBI has better things to do than harass Elbakyan, but it won't do them.

The FBI is a political organization and domestic spying machine. The US is a police state.

The same US that wouldn't even enforce their mask mandates is a police state?

This is like running around and calling anything slightly bad a country does Nazi Germany.

Nuance matters, think about the world a little more complexly.

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

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Post by gebruikersnaam »

tored wrote: post #174
gebruikersnaam wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Thanks. Manafort seems to be a dirty player and I wouldn't be surprised if he was involved in some shady businesses with people you shouldn't associate with, however that report is based on one line taken from a press release from the Treasure Department providing zero evidence for that claim. I will keep my skepticism on until more evidence is shown. Aaron Maté and Glenn Greenwald discusses this on the Grayzone http…

Interesting that you comment on the part from the Treasury Department, and not the WP piece. The latter references the Senate committee, stating that Kilimnik received highly sensitive campaign data and designated him as a Russian agent. If anything needs skepticism its people like Mate and Greenwald.

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

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Post by fao_ »

dillondoyle wrote: post #188
fao_ wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Apparently FBI got lazy these days, maybe because of all that Covid mess. The FBI has always been lazy. They sent notes to MLK stating he should commit suicide, after all.

Seems more malicious than lazy.

You can be lazy with your malice, I think.

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

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Post by chaosharmonic »

temp8964 wrote: post #57
knightofmars wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

There is nothing new about Russia interfering with foreign elections. What is new is that a presidential candidate can be accused of colluding with Russia. You can't just go back to say "Russian collusion" means something else, when in fact the mainstream media and the Democrat Party members at the time was claiming Trump colluded with Putin.

It's also new for a presidential candidate to literally ask for their assistance on live TV.

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

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Post by kodah »

megablast wrote: post #186
kodah wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Common misconception. The three letter agencies do not really need to know the contents of your email body. They're much more interested in to/from, timestamps, and subject. Establishing that you communicate with a person and then getting their emails is much easier than playing with your encrypted email body.

This is just such an obviously ridiculous statement.

Feel free to elaborate. This is fairly common knowledge if you Google parts of what makes ProtonMail (and others) susceptible to state actors.
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