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A Russian hacker accused of stealing from Russian banks reportedly confessed in court that he hacked the U.S. Democratic National Committee (DNC) and stole Hillary Clinton's emails under the direction of agents from Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).
According to Russian news site The Bell, Konstantin Kozlovsky, a Russian citizen working for a hacker group called Lurk, confessed to hacking Clinton's emails during a hearing about his arrest in August. An audio recording and minutes from the hearing were posted on Kozlovsky's Facebook page, and their authenticity was reportedly confirmed by The Bell.
In a handwritten letter that also appears in a photo on his Facebook page, Kozlovsky admits to hacking the DNC on the orders of an FSB agent he called "Ilya."
Putin Ordered Theft Of Clinton's Emails From DNC, Russian Hacker Confesses
(Score: 5, Insightful) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday December 14 2017, @03:57PM (14 children)
Revealing the truth is "rigging the election" now, is it? Interesting.
What's also interesting is a guy who's in trouble for breaking the law just to stir up shit for a political party is now unquestioningly believed when stirring up shit against another political party.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @04:44PM (13 children)
trust you to try to reframe the discussion, your desparation is palpable. notice that trump slash republican emails were /not/ released? also, a reminder for those with a short attention span, manafort, kushner, and junior all agreed [nytimes.com] to work with the russian government's attempt to influence an election.
i wouldn't judge the usa legal system harshly for throwing all three of those wookie buggerers in jail for the rest of their lives. they weren't putting their thumb on the scale, they were leaning into it.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday December 14 2017, @04:50PM (8 children)
Parent did. Learn to read.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by sjames on Thursday December 14 2017, @08:00PM (7 children)
You seem to have replied to the wrong message there.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Thursday December 14 2017, @09:05PM (6 children)
Ah well, shit happens.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Touché) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday December 14 2017, @10:16PM (5 children)
And a disproportionately large amount of it spews from your keyboard, Uzzard. Might wanna get that checked. I'm starting to wonder if you're actually one of those two-layer sea creatures with a single orifice for eating and excreting, rather than an actual bird of carrion.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Offtopic) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 15 2017, @03:08AM (4 children)
Yeah, I know I manage to butthurt a lot of True Believers, snowflakes, and third-wave feminists. The truth is to them as soap is to hippies.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 15 2017, @03:16AM (3 children)
Er...you mean it comes in these big plastic bottles with obscure, schizophrenic-sounding quasi-religious writing on it...? Help me out here.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 1, Flamebait) by The Mighty Buzzard on Friday December 15 2017, @04:42AM (2 children)
That wasn't for you to understand. I know you're severely handi-capable when it comes to comprehension. You were just a handy foil. Don't worry though, everyone else got it.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @05:27AM
Dre. Bronner's soap for the win! Dilute, dilute...
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday December 15 2017, @05:45AM
See the guy below you gets it. You apparently have never heard of Dr. Bronner's. You should use it; it's an excellent value, fair-trade, works really well, and if you translate the label from gibberish to English it's some surprisingly enlightened if rather basic treatises on reciprocal morality.
Not, of course, that you could comprehend such a thing. Every time you post you go lower and lower, and everyone can see it. You're reading Moore-esque levels of self-inflicted grotesquery, Uzzard. And I can't even bring myself to feel pity for you any longer.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 14 2017, @09:36PM (2 children)
You first have to get the emails to release them. Was there any evidence that republicans were hacked? Remember, the democrats were 'hacked' because they directly told a 3rd party their password when answering a phishing email. That was the extent of the hacking. Is it conceivable that the republicans also received phishing emails but instead didn't respond to them? It saddens me that 'top people' are so easily scammed. The person who received the email said 'hey, this email seems strange' but her higher-ups said 'nope, go ahead and answer it'. The democrats are completely at fault themselves for being hacked. How many scams have you received and ignored? When random people constantly get spam, scams, and phishing attacks you should expect a large, very rich, and powerful organization to be better at handling basic email spam. They knew they were targets and completely failed at basic security.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @02:03AM
Site connected to Russian hackers posts Republican emails [thehill.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @02:08AM
Russia Hacked 'Older' Republican Emails, FBI Director Says [wired.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday December 15 2017, @08:54AM
So, now the argument has become "Waah, the Republicans have better security, and those who want to leak Republican info are less competent".
Or is the problem in reality that everyone knows how bad the Republicans are, so there isn't anything to leak? It seems to me that the main difference is the Democrats keep telling how they are the good guys, then get p*ssed whenever the truth is leaked, where as the Republicans know their voters don't care, so they put all their terrible ideas on Twitter...