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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."
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(Score: 4, Informative) by Pav on Friday December 15 2017, @07:43AM (2 children)
The "hacker" in question ALSO said in his testimony that he was also asked to create a "big red button" to destroy all western I.T infrustructure, but he didn't because of "ethical" reasons. Yeah, cred personified.
Bill Binney (high level NSA cryptomathematician and whistleblower), Edward Snowden and others have given technical reasons why the dump definitely wasn't a hack : timestamps, NSA not releasing any logs, three letter agencies equivocating (eg. "moderately confident", "highly confident" etc...) so they can backtrack if need be. The Russia narrative was even dropped after a year by the mainstream media, and there was a pivot towards "collusion"... because the word "conspiracy" has a bad smell about it these days.
I'm definitely no Trump fan, but his only issue is he is incompetent when pushing stock standard US policy. eg. he was criticised by the left (namely Democrat leader Chuck Shumer) for not moving the embassy to Jerusalem quick enough. Both Hillary and Obama have said Jerusalem is and always will be Israels capital.
(Score: 3, Informative) by sjames on Saturday December 16 2017, @03:26AM (1 child)
The NSA not releasing something constitutes evidence? The organization that didn't even admit it existed for years?
TLAs not willing to give a firm answer? You don't say!
(Score: 2) by Pav on Saturday December 16 2017, @06:54AM
When pressed even members of the senate security committee were forced to admit there was no evidence.