Lucy Hamilton
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- Oct 30, 2015
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McCain will find out thursday...EXCEPT they refused to provide said information to congress. Anyone with half a brain knows why. It's a bunch of horse shit speculations.This is like other reports out of Homeland Security. They're not complete. However, they can't be because they are a security agency. They can not give complete details of who, when, where, and how without compromising their operation. This report gave names and code which was common to previous known Russian attacks. What is missing is details as to how those previous attacks were link to the Russians. That information is available to Obama and will be available to Trump, and if they choose to investigate, the Senate Committee on Intelligence. However, it will probably not be revealed to the public for good reason.>>
The report provides no evidence that the hacking was the work of Russian intelligence agencies. It merely states it as a fact
The U.S. Government confirms that two different RIS actors participated in the intrusion into a U.S. political party.
The two “actors” in question are the two groups of hackers known as Cozy Bear and Fancy Bear. As I have pointed out previously, the claim that these two groups of hackers act for Russian intelligence has so far been based purely on inference, with no hard facts behind it.
There is nothing in this report that changes that, or which substantiates this claim, and nothing in the report that remotely resembles a hard fact to support it. On the contrary as the paragraph I have quoted above shows, the claim is still based purely on inference . That the claim is entirely inferential, and may be based on completely false reasoning, is it turns out also the opinion of an expert in this field.
The rest of the report – which is to say nearly all of it – is taken up with technical information intended to confirm the existence of the hacking – something which no-one denies happened – and various suggestions for ways to mitigate against such hacking in the future. Whilst this is no doubt helpful, it is hardly the issue under discussion. Frankly it looks like padding, made to make the report look longer and more substantial than it actually is.<<
>>Previous JARs have not attributed malicious cyber activity to specific countries or threat actors. However, public attribution of these activities to RIS is supported by technical indicators from the U.S. Intelligence Community, DHS, FBI, the private sector, and other entities. This determination expands upon the Joint Statement released October 7, 2016, from the Department of Homeland Security and the Director of National Intelligence on Election Security. This activity by RIS is part of an ongoing campaign of cyber-enabled operations directed at the U.S. government and its citizens. These cyber operations have included spearphishing campaigns targeting government organizations, critical infrastructure entities, think tanks, universities, political organizations, and corporations leading to the theft of information. In foreign countries, RIS actors conducted damaging and/or disruptive cyber-attacks, including attacks on critical infrastructure networks. In some cases, RIS actors masqueraded as third parties, hiding behind false online personas designed to cause the victim to misattribute the source of the attack. This JAR provides technical indicators related to many of these operations, recommended mitigations, suggested actions to take in response to the indicators provided, and information on how to report such incidents to the U.S. Government.<<
This is what Obama wants to start a war over
AND, all this fuss over revealing Democrat corruption but no discussion on the corruption. Dishonest fuckers!
John McCain is a psychopath and a friend of terrorists.
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John McCain the psychopath describes ISIS and Al-Nusra aka Al-Qaeda as "brave fighters who are risking their lives for freedom and need our help"
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