Russia Was Involved In DNC Email Breach

[DonViejo]

New York Times: “Until Friday, that charge, with its eerie suggestion of a Kremlin conspiracy to aid Donald J. Trump, has been only whispered. But the release on Friday of some 20,000 stolen emails from the Democratic National Committee’s computer servers, many of them embarrassing to Democratic leaders, has intensified discussion of the role of Russian intelligence agencies in disrupting the 2016 campaign.”

“Proving the source of a cyberattack is notoriously difficult. But researchers have concluded that the national committee was breached by two Russian intelligence agencies, which were the same attackers behind previous Russian cyberoperations at the White House, the State Department and the Joint Chiefs of Staff last year. And metadata from the released emails suggests that the documents passed through Russian computers. Though a hacker claimed responsibility for giving the emails to WikiLeaks, the same agencies are the prime suspects. Whether the thefts were ordered by Mr. Putin, or just carried out by apparatchiks who thought they might please him, is anyone’s guess.”

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https://politicalwire.com/2016/07/25/russia-was-involved-in-dnc-email-breach/

[TalkingDog]

1. Which invalidates the content of the emails....right?

n/t

[DonViejo]

2. If you say so. eom

[mopinko]

3. rat fucking reaches a whole new level.

what is the correct response to this is the question.
no, it doesnt invalidate the content of the emails. they speak for themselves.

but at the same time, it sure as hell ups the stakes of this election. being a grown up means doing your best even when you know that your friends are not all your friends. you dont have to love everybody on your team to fight like hell to win anyway, and hash the rest out after the contest is over.

[TheBlackAdder]

4. The email breech was due to a DNC politically appointed IT firm who apparently shirked security.

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The whole Sanders breech exposed gross incompetence, using DNS as primary security mechanism.

Each row and record in the database should have been secured to the userid, no generic ids.

Each session should have had state and session tokens to ensure no one hijacked the session.

A minimum of 3 tiers should have been used, with no direct access. Internal security should have
been similar and no backdoors or any other schemes to make the IT guys life easier. SecureID
login keys, etc.

.

[Scuba]

5. So DNC staffers violated their own impartiality rule, then left their servers unsecured.

Let's blame everybody who's pissed off about this incompetence!!