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Obama Details Actions in Response to Russian Malicious Cyber Activity
U.S. President Obama writes:
I have issued an executive order that provides additional authority for responding to certain cyber activity that seeks to interfere with or undermine our election processes and institutions, or those of our allies or partners. Using this new authority, I have sanctioned nine entities and individuals: the GRU and the FSB, two Russian intelligence services; four individual officers of the GRU; and three companies that provided material support to the GRU's cyber operations. In addition, the Secretary of the Treasury is designating two Russian individuals for using cyber-enabled means to cause misappropriation of funds and personal identifying information. The State Department is also shutting down two Russian compounds, in Maryland and New York, used by Russian personnel for intelligence-related purposes, and is declaring "persona non grata" 35 Russian intelligence operatives. Finally, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation are releasing declassified technical information on Russian civilian and military intelligence service cyber activity, to help network defenders in the United States and abroad identify, detect, and disrupt Russia's global campaign of malicious cyber activities. [...] [The Obama] Administration will be providing a report to Congress in the coming days about Russia's efforts to interfere in our election, as well as malicious cyber activity related to our election cycle in previous elections.
Press release. Text of Executive Order. Annex to Executive Order.
Russia Calls for Expulsion of U.S. Diplomats
Although Russia's foreign minister has asked President Vladimir Putin to expel 35 U.S. diplomats from the country in response to President Obama's actions, President Putin has so far declined to do so.
Dispute on Russia's Involvement with DNC Hacking
A WikiLeaks associate has disputed the Russian hacking narrative, saying that he was handed the documents in Washington, D.C.:
On 15 December 2016, the British tabloid Daily Mail quoted Craig Murray, a former U.K. ambassador to Uzbekistan and "close associate" of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as saying that the Democratic National Committee's e-mails were not obtained by WikiLeaks due to the efforts of Russian hackers but were instead leaked by a disgruntled DNC operative who had legal access to them [...]
Murray said he retrieved the package from a source during a clandestine meeting in a wooded area near American University, in northwest D.C. He said the individual he met with was not the original person who obtained the information, but an intermediary.
Of course, it could be completely untrue. At the moment we have only his account to work with.
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(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Sunday January 01 2017, @07:36PM
The fact that Russian or other agencies has access to servers does not mean they were ones who released the information. It just means they had access to it as well. personally, I trust Wikileaks representatives far more than any US government agencies.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @07:54PM
Wikileaks lost a lot of credibility when they pulled that stunt of offering a reward for information on the death of Seth Rich [washingtonpost.com] as a way to co-opt his death to fuel conspiracy theories against Clinton. They wanted people to think Mr Rich was the "insider" but they wouldn't actually name him as their source. That's so much bullshit on so many levels.
(1) The DNC email leaks weren't worth killing over. They were really banal. The only reason they are a big deal is because they were trumped up.
(2) If he was the actual source then name him, he's dead, you can't hurt him any more.
(3) If wikileaks is concerned about protecting friends of Mr Rich then this wink-wink nod-nod way of not-naming him puts them in as much as danger as actually naming him.
(4) If he's not the source, then wikileaks is smearing him, making it sound like he didn't believe in the work he was doing. Who the fuck are they to do that? His parents are not happy with wikileaks either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @08:31PM
A psychopath would disagree... and then make exactly that argument in their defence.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday January 01 2017, @09:07PM
(1) The DNC email leaks weren't worth killing over.
Obviously, you presume that people in Washington share your values. You are incapable of understanding people who have no values. People in the DNC were embarrased and lost their jobs over these leaks. People who don't value life would be happy to snuff any number of lives for less reason than that.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @09:35PM
Yeah, yeah, yeah. IIRC you also believe in the spirit cooking fantasy and pizzagate.
Anyone you disagree with isn't just wrong, they are the devil.
You are quite lame.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 01 2017, @10:55PM
Haha, didn't know about spirit cooking [snopes.com].
omg satanic ritual! omg omg omg! It gets so fucking old. It's depressing that people are unable to separate fantasy from reality.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 02 2017, @12:39AM
" IIRC you also believe in the spirit cooking fantasy and pizzagate."
You don't recall correctly. Spirit cooking? WTF? The bitch published a cook book which uses bodily fluids in the recipes? That's gross, disgusting, and could be occult too. A lot of occult shit attributes special powers to bodily fluids, especially blood and semen.
Spirit cooking. Some sick shit, no matter how you look at it. Just how far is this from cannabalism?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @12:44AM
Looks like I recalled just fine.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday January 02 2017, @02:26AM
Obviously, you'll overlook and forgive the most perverse acts, if they are performed by left/progressive/democrats, but condemn anyone who even questions those acts? Got it.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @03:45AM
If you play Beyonce backwards its says "Hillary is the devil! Hillary is the devil!"
(Score: 4, Funny) by aristarchus on Monday January 02 2017, @06:45AM
If you play Beyonce backwards its says "Hillary is the devil! Hillary is the devil!"
Wow! That's amazing, 'cuz if you play Runaway forwards, it says the exact same thing!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday January 02 2017, @07:09AM
Runaway, Runaway! Did you watch "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom" again? You know it always scares you, what with all the Muslins taking your heart out and shit. So just calm down. Here, have some Ladyfingers and ******toes.