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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @05:42PM
It would fit his M.O. often well written, intelligent sounding sentences until you pay attention to the content of them... If he was really so dumb and blind he probably couldn't construct his terrible arguments in a decent manner. Ignoring criticism almost completely he changes the topic instead of addressing points... We'd be fools to think zero gov agencies care about SN.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @07:45PM
> We'd be fools to think zero gov agencies care about SN.
We'd be fools to think any gov agencies care that much about SN.
At worst Jmorris is a useful idiot. More likely he's just an idiot.