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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: 2) by cubancigar11 on Tuesday January 17 2017, @12:20PM
Bingo. Thanks for putting it like that. Youth is a demographic that has always been the target of those in power because youth is the next generation. TV news is in entirety a farcical entertainment displacing actual journalism that will report on your neighborhood. It will have us believe that we are to care about Trump's dumbassery and Russian influence more than what actually happens in our life. It wants to replace teachers with media personalities and education with niceness - hey hey, as long as you are nice you have the freedom to be wrong!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @02:58PM
Your are delusional if you think CNN targets a "youth" market.
Seriously, how old are you that you could be so out of touch? The median age of CNN's viewers is 61 years. Even primetime they are still at a median of 59.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 17 2017, @08:42PM
How old are you? Late teens? Early twenties? You may not yet comprehend this but, yes, because Trump is about to become POTUS and leader of the free world his "dumbassery" does have implications for what happens in your life. And it terrifies me that we are about to find out just how fateful his antics can be for all of us.
Yes, you do have the freedom to be wrong. And you can even be wrong regardless of how "nice" you are. What you don't have is a free pass to not be called on your dumbassery. See, the same freedom you have to expose your stupidity to the world also lets the rest of us pick apart and analyse your stupidity out in the public square. That is what true freedom is all about, Sunshine. Welcome to your crash course on how the First Amendment really works!