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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday December 11 2016, @08:07AM   Printer-friendly
from the all-your-email-are-belong-to-us dept.

From NPR:

President Obama has ordered the intelligence community to conduct a "full review" of "malicious cyber activity" timed to U.S. elections, the White House said Friday.

The review will go all the way back to the 2008 campaign when China was found to have hacked both the Obama and McCain campaigns, White House spokesman Eric Schultz said at a Friday press briefing.

In the 2016 election, U.S. intelligence officials charged that Russia had interfered. In early October, they released a strongly worded statement saying they were "confident that the Russian Government directed the recent compromises of e-mails from U.S. persons and institutions, including from U.S. political organizations." The statement went on to say "these thefts and disclosures are intended to interfere with the U.S. election process."

Shortly after that, WikiLeaks began posting emails hacked from Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta's Gmail account. The slow drip of those emails, including transcripts of Clinton's remarks to Goldman Sachs, hung over the campaign in its closing weeks and proved embarrassing at times. Podesta said he spoke to the FBI about the hacking, and intelligence experts blamed Russia for that as well.


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  • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Sunday December 11 2016, @07:55PM

    by hemocyanin (186) on Sunday December 11 2016, @07:55PM (#440040) Journal

    That's evidence of a phishing email, not that Government of Russia hacked the emails.

    Also, thank our lucky stars someone so careless with technology isn't part of the government.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @02:09AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @02:09AM (#440169)

    > That's evidence of a phishing email, not that Government of Russia hacked the emails.

    Those fingerprints on the gun used to kill the victim aren't evidence that the suspect killed the victim, its evidence that he touched the gun.

    Seems like you don't understand how evidence works.

    • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Monday December 12 2016, @05:02AM

      by hemocyanin (186) on Monday December 12 2016, @05:02AM (#440221) Journal

      You got a source? And by that I don't mean the lying bastards at the CIA/FBI?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @05:41AM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 12 2016, @05:41AM (#440229)

        Do you have proof their evidence is faked?

        No, I didn't think so.
        So stop playing the role of dumbfuck. We've got more than enough intellectually dishonest masturbation here on soylent.

        • (Score: 2) by hemocyanin on Thursday December 15 2016, @06:18PM

          by hemocyanin (186) on Thursday December 15 2016, @06:18PM (#441707) Journal

          CIA: Santa is real.
          Me: That's bullshit.
          You: Do you have proof?