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carlos86 said:
I told you Nunes is a dumb ass. This is what happens when a damn cattle farmer who knows nothing about intelligence finds himself on the House intelligence committee.
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What happens when you give a dumbass college kid who knows nothing about anything a computer?
 
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So the NSA's classified report on Russia's involvement and interference in the 2016 election has been leaked. It's interesting. The report states that The Russian hacking may have penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than was previously understood

"Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors (GRU)… executed cyber espionage operations against a named U.S. company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions. … The actors likely used data obtained from that operation to … launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations."

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3766950-NSA-Report-on-Russia-Spearphishing.html#document/p1
 
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Well, if authentic, I guess we have proof of a Russian effort to hack actual voter machinery or vote total tabulating processes. I remain skeptical they actually changed the votes. I guess its not impossible. Presumably we will know more about that later.

But at any rate, if authentic, the point that needs to be made here is the seriousness of their effort to get Trump elected. And why that would be the case.
 
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carlos86 said:
So the NSA's classified report on Russia's involvement and interference in the 2016 election has been leaked. It's interesting. The report states that The Russian hacking may have penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than was previously understood

"Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors (GRU)… executed cyber espionage operations against a named U.S. company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions. … The actors likely used data obtained from that operation to … launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations."

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3766950-NSA-Report-on-Russia-Spearphishing.html#document/p1
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Government officials getting spoofed and possibly compromising the voting machines. It wouldn't take much for some government official to hook their infected laptop into the voting machines to update with bad code or using an infected computer to download the data from the voting machines. I hope they were smarter than that.
 
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Velo Vol said:
Oh my! Where's our Fox News civil libertarian outrage about this massive abuse of government power?

[twitter]https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/870771844181368836[/twitter]
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Where's all the people that say there is nothing wrong with unmasking and it is evidence of nothing.
 
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carlos86 said:
So the NSA's classified report on Russia's involvement and interference in the 2016 election has been leaked. It's interesting. The report states that The Russian hacking may have penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than was previously understood

"Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors (GRU)… executed cyber espionage operations against a named U.S. company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions. … The actors likely used data obtained from that operation to … launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations."

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3766950-NSA-Report-on-Russia-Spearphishing.html#document/p1
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who wrote that crap? It's full of typos and most likely s***
 
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lawgator1 said:
Well, if authentic, I guess we have proof of a Russian effort to hack actual voter machinery or vote total tabulating processes. I remain skeptical they actually changed the votes. I guess its not impossible. Presumably we will know more about that later.

But at any rate, if authentic, the point that needs to be made here is the seriousness of their effort to get Trump elected. And why that would be the case.
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Just look what's happened in the last six months and you can see why the Russians were so serious about getting Trump elected.

Trump has basically abdicated leadership of the free world. Two of our strongest allies (GB and Germany) have intimated that the US can't be counted on. NATO is left wondering. Putin is the winner. He is sliding into the roll of the dominant force in Europe. He's like the rat that stole the cheese. Except he didn't steel it, Trump gave it to him.
 
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carlos86 said:
So the NSA's classified report on Russia's involvement and interference in the 2016 election has been leaked. It's interesting. The report states that The Russian hacking may have penetrated further into U.S. voting systems than was previously understood

"Russian General Staff Main Intelligence Directorate actors (GRU)… executed cyber espionage operations against a named U.S. company in August 2016, evidently to obtain information on elections-related software and hardware solutions. … The actors likely used data obtained from that operation to … launch a voter registration-themed spear-phishing campaign targeting U.S. local government organizations."

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3766950-NSA-Report-on-Russia-Spearphishing.html#document/p1
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just going on what you posted - a spear phishing campaign is not something that tampers with voting machines; sounds like they targeted government officials (email phishing) using information they gleened from about software/hardware used in voting. Eg. sent emails appearing to be from a voting software provider to people who might use that vendor as a way to break into the government officials systems. It's like when you get a fake email that appears to be from your employer about a problem with your payroll. (spear phishing)

Perhaps there's more in the document that shows direct attempts to hack in the voting software/hardware but the snippet posted suggests something else.
 
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MT LeConte said:
Just look what's happened in the last six months and you can see why the Russians were so serious about getting Trump elected.

Trump has basically abdicated leadership of the free world. Two of our strongest allies (GB and Germany) have intimated that the US can't be counted on. NATO is left wondering. Putin is the winner. He is sliding into the roll of the dominant force in Europe. He's like the rat that stole the cheese. Except he didn't steel it, Trump gave it to him.
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The abdication occurred over the last 8 years. There's a long list of actions taken by Team Obama that strengthened Putin and reduced the role (and confidence in) the US as world leader. Trump ain't helping but Clinton was part of a massive abdication. We gave in for nothing on missile defense, we turned over Syria to Russian control, we sat back and watched Crimea go and refused to offer much help at all to Ukraine. We told Russia we'll be more flexible after the 2nd term election. We had the heralded reset. We laughed when Romney suggested Russia was are primary international foe - labeling that 80s policy. Face it, until Russia made it difficult for Hillary to win Team Obama was the best friend Putin could have.

GB was pissed about leaks of intelligence to the press; not as a result of something Trump did.
 
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volinbham said:
just going on what you posted - a spear phishing campaign is not something that tampers with voting machines; sounds like they targeted government officials (email phishing) using information they gleened from about software/hardware used in voting. Eg. sent emails appearing to be from a voting software provider to people who might use that vendor as a way to break into the government officials systems. It's like when you get a fake email that appears to be from your employer about a problem with your payroll. (spear phishing)

Perhaps there's more in the document that shows direct attempts to hack in the voting software/hardware but the snippet posted suggests something else.
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No, they just go on to speculate what could theoretically happen. But the people quoted in the article make it sound like this stuff is just run of the mill hacker activity and it happens often. If this is even legit
 
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Reality Winner, 25.

Emailing documents to the Intercept within 90 days of hire.

How do these people get security clearances?
 
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volinbham said:
just going on what you posted - a spear phishing campaign is not something that tampers with voting machines; sounds like they targeted government officials (email phishing) using information they gleened from about software/hardware used in voting. Eg. sent emails appearing to be from a voting software provider to people who might use that vendor as a way to break into the government officials systems. It's like when you get a fake email that appears to be from your employer about a problem with your payroll. (spear phishing)

Perhaps there's more in the document that shows direct attempts to hack in the voting software/hardware but the snippet posted suggests something else.
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It suggests that it targeted officials that were involved in maintaining the voting machines. There were no direct attempts to hack the machines themselves because they are not on a communications backbone(Network) but rather managed by a direct peer to peer connection. It wasn't the voting machines that were the target but the computers used to manage them. I really hope they were unable to get that far.

It did say that the e-mails contained VB code
 
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