Side note: The story is not fraudulent, it is false.
NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent
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#142The security researcher posted a followup:
Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent
#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
Remember when Georgia attacked Southern Osetia night before China Olympics? Our western friends are more delicate this time.
And Russian reaction was correct right? Ignore boundaries of sovereign state (Georgia), annex its' territories outside of conflict zone (Gori, Georgia) and all in order to "defend their friends". Are you aware that Russia perfectly timed it's Kavkaz 2008 military training near the border of Georgian Region of South Osetia? Just several days earlier before conflict heated up. And what Russia does when conflict begins?…
No Gori annexion happened, actually -- Russian military entered the city, then, after the conflict was over, left.
The readiness to respond was quite amazing though, yes -- but it was Georgian army who started the storm of Tshinval, not expecting the Russian one to appear any soon through a mountain tunnel (or appear at all, actually).
There have been trainings just before that, that's correct; and there have been provocations from both sides of the conflict (Ossetian and Georgian).
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#144So 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…
"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"
Right now it's like massively enforced, even so far as going after a schoolgirl who claimed she was a lesbian (later dropping charges but only after effectively ruining child's life)
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#145Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent
#146The 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…
Next they will jump on a frozen lake and die then report Sochi is dangerous because if you jump on a frozen lake it's risky (Yes, I know there are no frozen lakes in Sochi, it's an example)
> (Yes, I know there are no frozen lakes in Sochi, it's an example)
I'm sure he can find a frozen lake in Moscow to jump on.
After all, the reporter was in Moscow -- not Sochi -- for the hacking story.
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#147You 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…
Well is there a "Putin good" argument?
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#148Earlier quoted context omitted.
Murder is bad but was George Zimmerman justified? Is the death penalty just? Never underestimated the news media's ability to split the American public in half. News isn't usually positive, but what do you think the tone of this coverage is compared to the coverage of the London olympics? I personally strongly dislike the way gay people are treated in Russia and I am enjoying the drubbing they're getting from Western…
Maybe in London when you get a hotel room doorknobs do not fall off?
In the last American hotel room I went to, doorknob from off.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is like a 60 Minutes report on "hacking" where a guy from Symantec ran Windows Task Manager for a credulous Leslie Stahl and postured about how all that activity could be viruses.
Reminds me of VB GUI IP tracking[1] and double keyboarding[2]. [1]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU [2]: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
I LOL'ED SO HARD! ROFL
Re: NBC Story about Hacking at Sochi is 100% Fraudulent
#150That's not 100% fraudulent, that's like 80% fraudulent.