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NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

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Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

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Post by primitivesuave »

Most news stories about technology where a technologically-illiterate reporter relies on a so-called "leading expert" to tell him what to report are 100% fraudulent. They did this for a surprisingly long time with Bitcoin, where the "expert" would inform the reporter about SHA 256 collisions and the reporter would twist that around into a statement like "so you're saying that Bitcoins can be stolen?" Obviously, they can and have been stolen, but not by some lucky bastard finding a SHA256 collision.

In the end, it is the general public that ends up with these ridiculous misconceptions, while only a handful of people (e.g. the readers of HN) actually see through these ridiculous stories.

Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

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Post by breser »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #13
Geee wrote: post #5

Well, I thought it was very fishy. It looked like propaganda.

Pretty much everything we hear about Russia through English-speaking media is propaganda...

Here let me help you here. Your comment should read. "Pretty much everything we hear through the media is propaganda." There much better now.

Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

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Post by [deleted] »

memracom wrote: post #19

So many of the news stories about Russia recently have been fraudulent. Like the uproar about the child protection law that is called an "anti-gay" law, but nobody has found any evidence of the law being enforced. How many silly laws get passed in the USA that never get enforced? That's what democracy is all about. There is no wise all-knowing king who can rule by proclamation; instead we muddle through with a crowd…

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Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

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Post by memracom »

Demiurge wrote: post #17

You can see huffingtonpost and drugereport post completely opposite, manipulative, news as far as American politics go. However, when it comes to international news, stories on both align perfectly, there is never a story that's off of the USA-party line. Russia bad! Putin bad! Olympics bad! I haven't seen a single positive thing, and I very much doubt there isn't a single positive to report. I read plenty in Russian…

It's funny to watch the Olympic coverage in Canada because it has been a steady stream of Russia bashing including lots of innuendo about corruption in building Olympic facilities and how they are not ready in time and how it is dangerous for gays (even though they visited one of the 3 gay clubs in Sochi" Of course all that was the senior journalists who have been bought by the establishment. People like Peter Mandsbridge who simply cannot be trusted. Then the athletes all arrived and a full team of journalists and the mood completely changed.

Everyone is gushing about how amazing the place is, how great the food is and the accommodations. Several people have commented on how this or that is better than it was in Vancouver. So now I'm thinking that maybe junior journalists still have some ethics in them and will do some actual investigations of stories.

Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

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Post by Mikeb85 »

breser wrote: post #22
Mikeb85 wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pretty much everything we hear about Russia through English-speaking media is propaganda...

Here let me help you here. Your comment should read. "Pretty much everything we hear through the media is propaganda." There much better now.

Can't say I disagree... A lot of distraction techniques too.

Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

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Post by memracom »

Mikeb85 wrote: post #13
Geee wrote: post #5

Well, I thought it was very fishy. It looked like propaganda.

Pretty much everything we hear about Russia through English-speaking media is propaganda...

Yes. That is why we did not hear about the untraditional girl who got to second place in Russia's American Idol type of program. It was the Russian people who liked her voice and voted her up there. Did I mention that she was an American and covered with tatoos? Actually she was born in Uzbekistan but grew up in America. Check out Nargiz Zakirova for more info.

And in the same show a native born black American girl who did not even speak Russian, made it into the knockout rounds. Her name is Karmen Moxie.

Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

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Post by wavefunction »

memracom wrote: post #19

So many of the news stories about Russia recently have been fraudulent. Like the uproar about the child protection law that is called an "anti-gay" law, but nobody has found any evidence of the law being enforced. How many silly laws get passed in the USA that never get enforced? That's what democracy is all about. There is no wise all-knowing king who can rule by proclamation; instead we muddle through with a crowd…

Selective enforcement of laws on the books is one of the worst corruptions of the modern era. If its never going to be enforced, surely the legislation can be struck from law.

Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent

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Post by Einstalbert »

NathanKP wrote: post #15

The longer version of the report shows more details: http://www.nbcnews.com/watch/nbc-news-web-extra/honeypot-tes... On the phone they went to a website and ignored warnings in order to download and execute a malicious APK. On the PC they followed a link in a scammy looking phishing email to download and open a malicious Office document. On the Mac they visited a website that had an ad suggesting that they needed an…

Wow that's a ridiculous spin of them to make...
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