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The campaign staff of Emmanuel Macron, one of the two candidates in France's presidential election run-off, claim to have been targeted by a massive hacking operation that leaked sensitive documents:
On the eve of the most consequential French presidential election in decades, the staff of the centrist candidate Emmanuel Macron said late Friday that the campaign had been targeted by a "massive and coordinated" hacking operation, one with the potential to destabilize the nation's democracy before voters go to the polls on Sunday.
The digital attack, which involved a dump of campaign documents including emails and accounting records, emerged hours before a legal prohibition on campaign communications went into effect. While the leak may be of little consequence, the timing makes it extremely difficult for Mr. Macron to mitigate any damaging fallout before the runoff election, in which he faces the far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who has pledged to pull France out of the euro and hold a referendum to leave the European Union.
French authorities recently arrested a suspect who admitted to attacking the campaign website for the other candidate, Marine Le Pen.
Also at the Washington Post, CNN, BBC, and Reuters.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 06 2017, @11:42PM (2 children)
you mean if people don't want to live in north africa meets lybia and le pen wins? that's what will ruin democracy? Not the biological weapons being sent into their country to destroy it from within? people see through your lies. you will be held accountable.
every time you stupid media whores mention her, it's "far right" and mackerel is "centrist". centrist means whore. you're going to find out what far right is when people start killing the media. i won't pity you pieces of shit either. Nobody except the treasonous governments you shill for deserve it more. you know you're voting for the better candidate when the whole media is against them. they may not be ideal but at least the media/bankster scum isn't running interference for them.
oh noes, how will the french rule themselves without some career thieves telling them what to do from brussels. now some french thieves will have to ruin France.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 07 2017, @12:32AM (1 child)
Relax, over 60% of people are so feeble minded that they believe anything. Ask them to fuck off to Africa if they want to live in those conditions and they enter instant denial mode because they cannot shake their conditioning.
There's a movie about this due any time now. [imgix.net]
(Score: 2) by butthurt on Sunday May 07 2017, @02:21AM
I find your concern over weapons of mass destruction being brought from North Africa to France hypocritical.
A compensation scheme for victims of France’s nuclear tests exists, but it has made payouts to only 17 people. The majority of those were residents of French Polynesia, where France relocated its nuclear testing campaign after leaving Algeria [...]
When France finally left, it buried a range of contaminated objects [...] But Saharan winds later swept away the sand covering these [...]
Southern Algerians — the vast majority of whom were never informed by the French about residual radiation hazards and in some cases the testing dates — began stripping the items for resources.
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[...] France’s failure to disclose to local residents the extent of contamination in surrounding areas positioned them for decades of ignorance [...]
-- http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2015/3/1/algerians-suffering-from-french-atomic-legacy-55-years-after-nuclear-tests.html [aljazeera.com]