***** LIVE Blog - Pt. 2 Russian Intelligence Activities - Senate Hearing Mar. 30 *****

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Live on CSPAN1 (no longer on CSPAN3)

https://www.c-span.org/networks/
Senate Intelligence Committee feed - https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/hearings/videos

Also various feeds...


Witnesses
Kevin Mandia
Chief Executive Officer
FireEye

General (Ret.) Keith Alexander
Chief Executive Officer and President
IronNet Cybersecurity

Thomas Rid
Professor Department of War Studies
King's College London

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1. Opening statements - these are all Cyber Security experts

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11. Here is the video LIVE feed:

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12. Here is the first hearing's thread:

***** LIVE Blog - Russian Intelligence Activities - Senate Hearing Mar. 30 *****

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13. Added to the OP

Thanks!

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24. Excellent. Should go up on Videos too. Go for it.

With a link back here.

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28. Done.

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3. Alexander - Engage with Russia

Me - uh no.

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4. thank you for posting

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5. Ok that was

established Russia was involved. ...........check

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6. Warner - Disinformation campaign in PA during last week

E.g., False claims through social media that Clinton was sick, etc.

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7. Rubio - his campaign was targeted by an IP address from Russia

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8. Rubio still trying to deflect from the election issue.

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9. Yeah, they're not all there to be his personal tech advisory board. n/t

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10. DiFi up...

Questioning Alexander first.

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14. Alexander basically cautious

We may want to avoid confrontation until we secure ourselves and go with some engagement channel in the interim.

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15. Wyden (along with Rep. Lieu) - Vunerability with SS7 (cell)

And issue of being hacked via the cell towers.

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17. SS7 - what does that effect ? Cell phones or computers?

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18. Cell communications

I think they were saying it's a vulnerable protocol that allows cell towers to communicate with each other... So as you travel around and your phone moves from tower to tower, you can be targeted and then your conversation tapped.

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39. SS7 is an old TDM technology actually

DIP done to find LIDB data, CIC/PIC, etc so we know how to route and originating phone call...

Cell towers know how to keep your call up via other protocols that are a secret

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46. Thanks

Used to work with an old navy communications guy who used to try to teach me all those various protocols... TMI.

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36. EVERY PHONE CALL IN THE WORLD!

LOL

working on SS7 grooms just earlier today

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16. Wyden - Comey indicated the Russians hacked state voter roll databases

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21. How many voters were dropped from the voter rolls by hackers? Whose hackers?

How much disruption of primaries was an orchestrated attempt to make Dems start infighting?

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45. not dropped, but micro-targeted.

went through and picked thug voters, and made sure their fb/twitter feeds were full of fake news.

these are semi-public records. most campaigns, you have to pay to use them. you rent them.
so, these cheetoheads got them free. ie- stole them.

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47. I want to know if voters were dropped from registration rolls.

You can't go from a voter registration roll to feeding someon'e Fb feed, those are very distinct matters.

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48. well, you find the ones who have a fb in their own names.

but yeah, i have been saying that provisional ballots need to be examined.
if anyone was dropped, but tried to vote, they were likely to have been given a provisional ballot.

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19. Thanks for getting this going. I've been drawn away, trying to stay tuned.

Following the twitter feed at the same time.

Link to tweet

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23. I figured you got tied up!

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20. OMG! Talks about Privacy Protection when all these Repub F'ers

just voted to sell our private info.

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31. Probably not a coincidence.

People will think twice about online anti- Trumplebani activities if they know everybody's watching.

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22. So one expert says "engagement" is the first step. Eyeball to eyeball let Russian know that we know

what they are doing.

OK. So that is exactly what Obama did. And after that he slapped sanctions on them. Now what?

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t&p=obama+telling+putin+to+stop+it#id=2&vid=2b7250162abf980d3103db18fbd0e7d5&action=click

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25. That irked me

but only later did he sortof indicate why - I think because basically we seriously need to get our house in order or we're fucked.

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26. Been watching for a hashtag. #SenateIntelligenceCommittee is trending now.

#SenateIntelligenceCommittee

Link to tweet

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27. just kicking

this for viewing.

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29. Angus King - Wikileaks (Assange) was a clearing house now a selective leaker

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30. Angus King - 30 states internet voting & 5 completely paperless

Doesn't this create a vulnerability? (his question)

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32. Lankford - is this a false flag?

Mandia - hacking group is Russian. Can't yet directly tie Guccifer 2.0 to the breaches yet.

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33. Manchin - Could the Russians have altered the outcome?

Mandia - Not really sure (from an engineering standpoint) but they could have and this was just a shot across the bow.

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34. Manchin - How would we retaliate?

initial reaction - * crickets*

Rid - can't do military - sanctions
Alexander - engage (private) - push to administration to do
Mandia - can't do it on cyber (too much asymmetry they would win).

The above is pretty bleak.

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35. Kamala - How can Americans tell what is fake news?

Mandia - need to look at multiple sources to validate
Rid - need to trust mainstream media (New York Times/Washington Post)
Alexander - The News media need to make a bigger effort to get the facts out

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37. Warner - Recent issue about Medevev's property info made public

causing protests in Russia.

Rid - May have had to do with the Panama Papers and might put a different light if Russia assumes that the U.S. put that out.

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38. Interesting. How much Putin action was retaliation for Panama Papers?

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40. Burr - Does Wikileaks have more to release?

Mandia - Probably only 1% leaked of what they have.

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41. THIS: 98% compiled time is during business hours in Russia.

That does not mean the hackers work for Russians, just that they go to work in Russia. Important difference.

Link to tweet

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42. Burr just got his ass handed to him by Mandia

Re: Asking if whether the DNC had handed the FBI their server earlier - and he got interrupted by Mandia to say that his org has been working these things for the past 5 or 6 years and almost every time, the FBI was already there and would tell his type of business (private) to go look at these leads too... Meaning the FBI was most likely already involved with the DNC.

Resulting in Burr saying - I guess that was a diplomatic way of putting it.

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43. Angus King to Rid - Who is Guccifer 2.0 and is it associated with Russia

Rid -
-not one individual
-APT28 got password from Guccifer 2.0 for various hacks for data released to DC Leaks, etc.
-Yes believed to be associated with Russia

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44. Hearing Adjourned - 4.01 ET.