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On March 19 of this year, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta received an alarming email that appeared to come from Google.
The email, however, didn't come from the internet giant. It was actually an attempt to hack into his personal account. In fact, the message came from a group of hackers that security researchers, as well as the US government, believe are spies working for the Russian government. At the time, however, Podesta didn't know any of this, and he clicked on the malicious link contained in the email, giving hackers access to his account.
Months later, on October 9, WikiLeaks began publishing thousands of Podesta's hacked emails. Almost everyone immediately pointed the finger at Russia, who is suspected of being behind a long and sophisticated hacking campaign that has the apparent goal of influencing the upcoming US elections. But there was no public evidence proving the same group that targeted the Democratic National Committee was behind the hack on Podesta—until now.
The data linking a group of Russian hackers—known as Fancy Bear, APT28, or Sofacy—to the hack on Podesta is also yet another piece in a growing heap of evidence pointing toward the Kremlin. And it also shows a clear thread between apparently separate and independent leaks that have appeared on a website called DC Leaks, such as that of Colin Powell's emails; and the Podesta leak, which was publicized on WikiLeaks.
All these hacks were done using the same tool: malicious short URLs hidden in fake Gmail messages. And those URLs, according to a security firm that's tracked them for a year, were created with Bitly account linked to a domain under the control of Fancy Bear.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @05:56PM
He's doing us no favors if he is trying to pick the winners for us.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday October 21 2016, @06:33PM
There is literally 0 reason to think this is the case. There's a good chance Trump's campaign doesn't have high level players willing to click on random urls in emails while using browsers that have scripts enabled. That is some epic level of stupid for somebody who you'd think would be used to phishing attempts. The fact they're trying to spin this as 'state level' hacking is beyond ridiculous silly and clearly just a distraction attempt.
(Score: 2) by Geotti on Friday October 21 2016, @09:05PM
He's doing us no favors if he is trying to pick the winners for us.
Does it really fucking matter what shade of bad you get, if you get wall street or wall street? Only shimmer of hope was Bernie, now the world is fucked unless some miracle happens.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 22 2016, @02:33AM
There is plenty of hope. For one thing, if the democrats win back the senate, Bernie is going to be chairman of the senate budget committee which is a position that will give significant power to effect the changes he was campaigning on. In fact, its such a big deal that Paul Ryan has been using that fact to try to scare republicans into doing "split ticket" votes against trump, but for republican senators. [washingtonpost.com]
Beyond that, the Podesta emails have revealed the price Clinton paid for Senator Warren's support - putting progressives into key administrative posts. [vox.com] Warren believes that people are policy. If you keep the wall-streeters out of the cabinet, then the people making the decisions about policy won't be stuck in that mindset.
The end result is that we are likely to get even more done under a Clinton presidency than we would have under a Sander presidency because Clinton's made public campaign promises and, unlike Obama, she won't get a pass on accountability just because she's not an old white guy. Meanwhile both Sanders and Warren are in positions of strong power in the legislative branch.
I can understand why you might think its hopeless. But quit whining like a trumpkin and deal with the opportunities we have because we've got a lot of them.