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McClatchy reports:
A Russian venture capitalist and tech expert whose name and company are mentioned in the now-notorious document alleging connections between the Donald Trump campaign and Russian hackers says no intelligence officers have ever contacted him about the accusations, which he says are false.
A report compiled by a former Western intelligence official as opposition research against Trump [...] alleged that global tech firm XBT Holding, with operations in Dallas, was instrumental in the hack of leaked Democratic Party emails that embarrassed Hillary Clinton and fellow Democrats.
XBT, owner of Dallas-based enterprise-hosting company Webzilla, is run by a successful Russian tech startup expert, Aleksej Gubarev. In a phone interview from Cyprus, where he said he'd lived since 2002, Gubarev said he was surprised to see his name in the report.
[...] Gubarev said he operated 75,000 servers across the globe and got real-time information if there had been hacking or illicit activity tied to his businesses. There is no evidence of that, he said, adding that no one has contacted him.
[...] If law enforcement wants to talk with him, Gubarev said, his door is open.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @03:52AM
Good luck to your country when the refugees start coming out of America.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @05:16AM
Yeah, I've been trying to get across the point for a while now that the time to start panicking is not when people are jumping over fences and walls to get into the country but when people are jumping over fences and walls to get out. So far, few seem to have grabbed a hold of the clue yet. Meanwhile, I renewed my passport a few months ago right before the election, just in case I find it necessary to jump over the wall and out of the country myself. More and more, this is looking like the worst clusterfuck I have ever witnessed in my lifetime...and I am old enough that I do have some recollection of the Watergate years.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @01:05PM
So all of them are planning to stay and either cheer the success of 'their guy' or 'boo the failings' of 'not their guy'.
I expect hilarity to ensue in a few years when things get bad enough and they are no longer in a position to emigrate without outside financial/political assistance.
And I won't be helping them.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @05:50AM
We will do what we currently do and have always done which is skim the cream and stop the rest.
So yeah, good luck to us indeed...
(Score: 4, Interesting) by isostatic on Tuesday January 17 2017, @08:40AM
Bring it on. I'm more concerned about the armies and drones and the fawning over the military ( http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-pentagon-soldiers-pro-games-20151104-story.html [latimes.com] et al)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @09:53AM
Well, Trump said he wants to build a wall on the border to Mexico. As the former GDR citizens know quite well, a wall not only can be used to keep people out …
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @03:34PM
And Mexico will pay for it.