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posted by Fnord666 on Monday January 29 2018, @02:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the Quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes? dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Hackers from the Dutch intelligence service AIVD have provided the FBI with crucial information about Russian interference with the American elections. For years, AIVD had access to the infamous Russian hacker group Cozy Bear. That's what de Volkskrant and Nieuwsuur have uncovered in their investigation.

It's the summer of 2014. A hacker from the Dutch intelligence agency AIVD has penetrated the computer network of a university building next to the Red Square in Moscow, oblivious to the implications. One year later, from the AIVD headquarters in Zoetermeer, he and his colleagues witness Russian hackers launching an attack on the Democratic Party in the United States. The AIVD hackers had not infiltrated just any building; they were in the computer network of the infamous Russian hacker group Cozy Bear. And unbeknownst to the Russians, they could see everything.

That's how the AIVD becomes witness to the Russian hackers harassing and penetrating the leaders of the Democratic Party, transferring thousands of emails and documents. It won't be the last time they alert their American counterparts. And yet, it will be months before the United States realize what this warning means: that with these hacks the Russians have interfered with the American elections. And the AIVD hackers have seen it happening before their very eyes.

The Dutch access provides crucial evidence of the Russian involvement in the hacking of the Democratic Party, according to six American and Dutch sources who are familiar with the material, but wish to remain anonymous. It's also grounds for the FBI to start an investigation into the influence of the Russian interference on the election race between the Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and the Republican candidate Donald Trump.

Translated by: Lisa Negrijn

It's quite an interesting read.


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  • (Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @12:07AM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @12:07AM (#630100)

    No, the OP's statements don't imply a poll tax either, and they certainly don't imply the shenanigans that occurred around any poll tax.

    So, try again, Mr. Haystack.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @12:17AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @12:17AM (#630107)

    Sure there is a slight difference between a "voting license" that requires some sort of civics test and a "poll tax" which is a financial barrier, but the concepts are similar enough to convey the idea that putting barriers in front of voting only serves to disenfranchise specific groups of voters. Poll taxes prevented the poor from voting, a "voting license" will be abused by counties to make some people fail and not get a vote. History is full of this crap, so what is wrong with your brain huh?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @04:09AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @04:09AM (#630178)

      ... disenfranchised, no?

      So, either you think everyone should be able to vote (if only for having been born in a certain geographical location), or you don't; which is it?

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @05:54PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday January 30 2018, @05:54PM (#630496)

        Wow you are stupid. No one should be barred from voting, not even felons. The impact any single person can make is miniscule, the impact voting restrictions have is wide and general with no care for accuracy.

  • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 30 2018, @05:32AM (3 children)

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 30 2018, @05:32AM (#630199) Journal

    One, it's Miss Haystack, and two, as the AC below you pointed out, suppressive measures to prevent "the wrong sort" from voting always hit the poor and the undeserving of it rather than whoever they're supposed to keep out.

    Why don't you register an account and face me head-on, coward? We know it's you; no one else posts AC and starts the post in the title. Janrinok has your VPN's number. What kind of weak-sauce basement-crawling needledick has to sink this low?

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    • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Tuesday January 30 2018, @09:34PM (2 children)

      by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Tuesday January 30 2018, @09:34PM (#630624) Homepage Journal

      Actually, martyb and I are the only ones with access to unhashed IP addresses that've spoken in IRC today. Jan's got super-mega-honcho edity powers on the website but not admin access to the underlying architecture. He'd need it to tell the webserver to start running an access log because rehash only stores it already hashed that I've found.

      Side note: The girl my mother warned me about had safety pins in her eyebrow, the sides of her head shaved, strategically ripped jeans that fit her extremely well, and quite often bruises acquired whilst kicking someone's entire ass. If that's you, it's an absolute shame you play for the wrong team.

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      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday January 30 2018, @10:38PM (1 child)

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday January 30 2018, @10:38PM (#630682) Journal

        I've had the bruises acquired by kicking, as you put it, peoples' entire asses, but haven't cut my hair for almost 25 years and would never scar myself up with DIY piercings. I basically look like a six-foot Caucasian yuurei in black jeans and steel-toed boots.

        And who says I'm playing for the wrong team? :) If people could actually choose to be straight or gay, trust me, eeeevery single woman out there would be U-Hauling.

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        • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday January 31 2018, @01:32AM

          by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday January 31 2018, @01:32AM (#630765) Homepage Journal

          If everyone could choose who they were attracted to, you'd be absolutely correct; there would be zero straight men for straight women to want. It's undoubtedly a genetic thing. Not difficult to see the absolute necessity for it either.

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