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To date, the only public evidence that the Russian government was responsible for hacks of the DNC and key Democratic figures has been circumstantial and far short of conclusive, courtesy of private research firms with a financial stake in such claims. Multiple federal agencies now claim certainty about the Kremlin connection, but they have yet to make public the basis for their beliefs.
Now, a never-before-published top-secret document provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden suggests the NSA has a way of collecting evidence of Russian hacks, because the agency tracked a similar hack before in the case of a prominent Russian journalist, who was also a U.S. citizen.
[...] NSA whistleblowers have so far given the best idea of what the NSA's signals intelligence on Russia, today or in 2005, could look like. Earlier this year, Snowden tweeted that if the Russian government was indeed behind the hacking of the Democrats, the NSA most likely has the goods, noting that XKEYSCORE, a sort of global SIGINT search engine, "makes following exfiltrated data easy. I did this personally against Chinese ops." Snowden went so far as to say that nailing down this sort of SIGINT hacker attribution "is the only case in which mass surveillance has actually proven effective."
(Score: 3, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday December 31 2016, @07:54PM
One of my favorite theories is that there is an internal power-struggle in progress and that Snowden was a CIA op to discredit and put public pressure on the NSA (I came up with this theory before obscure LARPer High Level Insider revealed it in the asshole of the internet, although I do not recall if I posted it beforehand.)
Anyway, the reason why I believe this is because what happened with Petraeus smelled funny. Two silly bitches get in a tiff involving fucking nothing and then one just runs to the FBI for something that, on the surface, would be a waste of time even for common beat-cops. The FBI then says, "Okay, since a random woman in a petty jealousy spat ran to us claiming internet harassment, which is a most heinous crime which never ever occurs, we're just gonna go through all their e-mails for the fuck of it."
Then Petraeus was magically removed from the CIA and slapped on the wrist for providing classified info to his creepy-looking mistress who is probably a spy. And if you saw Petraeus' wife, you'd totally understand why he's a cheater.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 31 2016, @08:06PM
Your journal?
(Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Saturday December 31 2016, @09:16PM
I like your theory and I modded up.
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