Russian Hacker Confesses to Hacking DNC - for the FSB.

[L. Coyote]

A Russian Hacker Confessed to Hacking the DNC During the Election Campaign
Geoffrey Smith --- December 11, 2017

A Russian hacker has confessed, in court, to being hired by Russian state intelligence to hack the Democratic National Congress’ computer systems in 2016.

Russian website The Bell, known for a generally critical stance towards President Vladimir Putin and the corruption under his rule, reported Monday that Konstantin Kozlovsky had testified to carrying out attacks at the request of state intelligence organs, notably the FSB (the KGB-successor for which Putin himself had worked in Soviet times).

The testimony is potentially explosive, as it is a first-hand account of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election that directly contradicts Putin’s denials of any involvement. President Donald Trump had indicated after a recent meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Vietnam that he believed Putin’s account, rather than the reports of four U.S. intelligence agencies that came to the opposite conclusion.

Kozlovsky had been arrested earlier this year as part of a sweep by Russian authorities into a group of hackers who had stolen over $50 million from Russian bank accounts since the start of 2016 using the so-called Lurk virus. His testimony comes from an Aug. 15 court hearing on whether to extend his pre-trial detention. The website cited Kozlovsky’s own Facebook page for the written transcript, and also an audio recording of the hearing posted on Soundcloud. Fortune hasn’t verified either independently.

Kozlovsky said he reported to Dmitry Dokuchayev, a major-general in the FSB, for various tasks since 2008. In 2016, Dokuchayev had instructed him to attack the DNC’s servers for the purpose of manipulating the U.S. electoral process, Kozlovsky testified.

Dokuchayev is himself now in prison on charges of treason, accused of passing similar information to U.S. intelligence agencies. .....................

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[Raster]

1. Dokuchayev is himself now in prison on charges of treason...

...that's not good. The Tsar* doesn't like to leave loose ends.

[L. Coyote]

4. A group of hackers who had stolen over $50 million from Russian bank accounts

is the reason he was swept up. He may have tried to use his connections to the DNC hack to avoid the bank robbery conviction.
"But your honor, I work for Trump and Putin."

[byronius]

2. A Democrat would already be in prison by the time this story broke.

Republicans are cheaters, liars, thieves, molesters, murderers, and more to the point, incompetent to the point that without help from us they would all eat each other and die.

And therein lies the true source of conservative rage: they know this.

Talk about your welfare queens. Without the extra 5-10% the gerrymandering and suppression gives them, without the instant respect accorded to the wealthy, white, and criminally-minded, they'd be about as politically powerful as an old rusty can of soup.

[Irish_Dem]

6. A Dem would have been hung for treason by now. nt

[byronius]

11. I find it an utterly strange phenomenon.

Almost as if people trust the least trustworthy because at least they know they're not trustworthy?

As if trusting the trustworthy is more of a risk? And they must vilify the trustworthy more because of this?

These 3 million year old tribalistic behavior patterns don't function off the veldt. We need to grow better ideologies and practices, fast.

[Irish_Dem]

12. I agree, if humans don't evolve, and quickly, our species is at risk.

Interesting take on who we trust and why.

[rogue emissary]

3. K & R!

[Achilleaze]

5. republican Comrade Casino* is in bed with the freaking evil empire** russia

* aka republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief
** per ronald freaking reagan

[Irish_Dem]

7. The FSB is the new KGB??? nt

[Raster]

8. Yes. The FSB is what the KBG has morphed into....

...still the same organization, still the same power structure...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Security_Service

[Irish_Dem]

9. Thank you for the information. Very interesting.

Quite a big and powerful entity.

[uponit7771]

10. K&R