Snowden: NSA just lost control of its Top Secret arsenal of digital weapons

Post by doktrin » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 11:31 PM UTC

scythe wrote: post #67

sillysaurus3 wrote: post #26

It's pretty fascinating to read the Shadow Broker's posts. They have to write something, since they can't just say "I work for Russia and we're reminding America that they're not invulnerable." So they have to come up with all sorts of contrived reasons about why they're doing this, complete with broken english to fool stylometry detection that walks the fine line between being believable and preposterous. Someone sp…

I think that any agency with the capability to break into the NSA has also the capability to hire a proofreader. That is, any mistakes left in the documents are there intentionally.

Post by tyingq » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 11:34 PM UTC

tomjakubowski wrote: post #22

corndoge wrote: post #10

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Most likely an American trying to write in an Eastern European accent.

Yeah, it's so over the top that it reads like a native English speaker's intentional obfuscation.

Post by noobermin » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 11:38 PM UTC

Pyxl101 wrote: post #92

mootothemax wrote: post #64

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While I get your wider point, I find the different types of mistakes that ESL'ers with different mother tongues make absolutely fascinating. I've noticed, say, that in Poland, where the native tongue lacks articles, people regularly mess up "the" and "a," or miss them altogether. I've never met a French person with the same issue, for obvious reasons. When I started looking into people's mistakes with tenses in Engli…

> I like cars red Interestingly, that word order is also valid English, though it has a slightly different meaning than "I like red cars". Example: "I like [my] soup warm". "I like soup warm, but you can eat it cold and left over if you want." "I like having soup warm" "I like my cookies freshly baked" "I like men muscular and toned" "I like my women blonde, so you can go for the brunette" "I like cars red" doesn't q…

Post by jorblumesea » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 11:44 PM UTC

mirimir wrote: post #172

jorblumesea wrote: post #168

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It's not easily copied, that's my point. The MO of this campaign (and others) isn't easily done, which is why it's easy to narrow down suspects. There are only a few possible intelligence agencies that could do something like this and only Russia has the motive.

You can't have it both ways. If it's so easy to spot, it's easy to emulate. And how can you rely on motives? What you have is evidence, from which you infer motives. When there's so much avowed certainty with such subjective evidence, one must suspect an agenda.

Post by daodedickinson » Sat, Apr 08, 2017, 11:50 PM UTC

Harken wrote: post #59

"We voted for you, comrade. Here is old malware from deepnet kiddy porn site post for to confuse." Could be Russia pissed about puppet twitching without permission, or could be Bannon (via Cambridge Analytics?) pissed about puppet twitching without permission. Twitch, puppet, twitch!