There's been a longstanding struggle between the design principles of cryptocurrency - i.e. private payments - and the public policy goals of monitoring our payments infrastructure for criminal activity. What are cryptocurrency advocates saying now about e.g. FinCEN's jurisdiction over exchanges? Is KYC now standard? Do they submit SARs? Do they agree with the principles, or are they opposed to any sort of oversight?
Grand Jury Indicts Russian Officers for Hacking Related to the 2016 Election
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Re: Grand Jury Indicts Russian Officers for Hacking Related to the 2016 Election
#42Expect some countries to start charging US IC operators, for hacking and interference in their own electoral processes.
Reminder: the NSA has been hacking into governments and businesses all over the world.
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Not sure why you're getting downvoted so hard, the sarcasm is obvious.
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Not sure why you're getting downvoted so hard, the sarcasm is obvious.
One of the HN guidelines is to not be snarky.
Re: Grand Jury Indicts Russian Officers for Hacking Related to the 2016 Election
#45Just checking... But in the Russian Hacking Scandal... Was any of the information released to the public wrong or fake? Because if the issue is that "Russia meddled!" by showing true things... Isn't that shooting the messenger? Isn't the larger issue that the DNC, Podesta, and Clinton did and said things that weren't aligned with their public statements? edit: Downvotes for a serious question, hello Reddit, I hadn't…
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
So GRU, during Moscow work-hours, searched for terms like: "worldwide known", "think twice about", "some hundred sheets", and "company's competence". And those terms happen to all show up later that day in this post: https://guccifer2.wordpress.com/2016/06/15/dnc/ We all here talked about that release at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11912412 Our top comment suggested, "The media (and CrowdStrike) bl…
> Additionally, on July 27, Trump suggested in his speech, "Russia, if you're listening. I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing." And those same computers, "attempted after hours to spearphish for the first time email accounts... used by Clinton's personal office." Anyone who has seen the actual video for that blurb that doesn’t take it as a joke should re-evaluate their sense of humor.
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Re: Grand Jury Indicts Russian Officers for Hacking Related to the 2016 Election
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can you point out instances of unethical behavior or "backroom dealings"? Frankly I haven't personally seen anything out of place other than uncharitable readings by the right...
The knowledge that we had an ally who was funding ISIS and we were doing effectively nothing about it. https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/hillary-clinton-wikilea...
If you think for one second that not antagonizing the Saudi government by officially calling out their involvement in things inimical to US interests is a consequence of partisanship, you're paying a very selective kind of attention.
Re: Grand Jury Indicts Russian Officers for Hacking Related to the 2016 Election
#48Just checking... But in the Russian Hacking Scandal... Was any of the information released to the public wrong or fake? Because if the issue is that "Russia meddled!" by showing true things... Isn't that shooting the messenger? Isn't the larger issue that the DNC, Podesta, and Clinton did and said things that weren't aligned with their public statements? edit: Downvotes for a serious question, hello Reddit, I hadn't…
Hacker news has sadly become more like Reddit. "Wrongthink" or questions will be down voted to preserve the narrative, even if it is a legitimate question or interest
>even if it is a legitimate question or interest
Perhaps, but you and I both know this is not a legitimate question or interest. It's a talking point used to deflect blame.
Re: Grand Jury Indicts Russian Officers for Hacking Related to the 2016 Election
#49Full indictment document: https://www.justice.gov/file/1080281/download
The indictment is a reminder of just how much data can be pieced together about a person's online activity, at least with considerable resources and seemingly proper court authorized warrants. From web searches, to emails, twitter posts, block chain transactions, all of it could be correlated together. The searching for specific phrases that then appeared in a text is particularly damning. What I could not glean from…
> What I could not glean from the indictment is how they could possibly have identified these 12 people individually. The government must have some other sigint or humint for that? Will this ever make it to trial so that evidence can be revealed?
These indictments are the result of a massive counterintelligence operation spanning many agencies from several nations. In this case specifically, the AIVD (Dutch intel) hacked the GRU offices where a large part of the hacking was carried out and managed to exfiltrate significant amounts of evidence including CCTV security footage of GRU officers coming and going [1]. The evidence proving the crimes for the purposes of a conviction will be made public but unless lawyers for the defendants come to challenge the warrants and get them unsealed, the evidence that led to the public stuff will likely stay secret for decades.
[1] https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/dutch-agencies-provide-...
Re: Grand Jury Indicts Russian Officers for Hacking Related to the 2016 Election
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
So let’s see you publish your inbox then. What are you suggesting, that attempts to hack the Secretary of State go unanswered?
How should Germany have answered the Obama-sanctioned eavesdropping on Angela Merkel's phone?
Obviously Germany should sue Obama and a group of his accomplices.
[added] I see double, down-voting standards. What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
We all agree that criminals should be charged, and that someone who organizes and benefits from criminal activity is criminal too.
As America charges GRU agents, and thus targets their boss Putin, the same should be done for known actions by NSA agents, and their boss Obama at the time.