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Originally posted by golddot:
do we/I REALLY need to worry bout this EC switch vote deal?

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by golddot:
do we/I REALLY need to worry bout this EC switch vote deal?

No.

N. O.

No.

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Originally posted by sdy:
Podesta got an email saying he had to change his password immediately.

The email was sent to Charles Delavan to check it. Delavan knew it was a phishing attempt.

But Delavan emailed Podesta that it was a "legitimate" email by mistake. He meant to type "illegitimate".

Podesta changed his password w the phishing attack and opened up his 60,000 gmail acct emails.

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These people wanted to run the country

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Originally posted by sdy:
on 13 Dec, the NY Times had a long article about the Russians hacking the DNC and Podesta's emails. I just read some of it.

But here are two interesting parts:

When Special Agent Adrian Hawkins of the Federal Bureau of Investigation called the Democratic National Committee in September 2015 to pass along some troubling news about its computer network, he was transferred, naturally, to the help desk.

2015

His message was brief, if alarming. At least one computer system belonging to the D.N.C. had been compromised by hackers federal investigators had named “the Dukes,” a cyberespionage team linked to the Russian government.

The F.B.I. knew it well: The bureau had spent the last few years trying to kick the Dukes out of the unclassified email systems of the White House, the State Department and even the Joint Chiefs of Staff, one of the government’s best-protected networks.

Yared Tamene, the tech-support contractor at the D.N.C. who fielded the call, was no expert in cyberattacks. His first moves were to check Google for “the Dukes” and conduct a cursory search of the D.N.C. computer system logs to look for hints of such a cyberintrusion.

By his own account, he did not look too hard even after Special Agent Hawkins called back repeatedly over the next several weeks — in part because he wasn’t certain the caller was a real F.B.I. agent and not an impostor.

“I had no way of differentiating the call I just received from a prank call,”
Mr. Tamene’s initial scan of the D.N.C. system — using his less-than-optimal tools and incomplete targeting information from the F.B.I. — found nothing.

So when Special Agent Hawkins called repeatedly in October, leaving voice mail messages for Mr. Tamene, urging him to call back, “I did not return his calls, as I had nothing to report,” Mr. Tamene explained in his memo.


By March, Mr. Tamene and his team had met at least twice in person with the F.B.I. and concluded that Agent Hawkins was really a federal employee.


During this second wave, the hackers also gained access to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and then, through a virtual private network connection, to the main computer network of the D.N.C.

The F.B.I. observed this surge of activity as well, again reaching out to Mr. Tamene to warn him. Yet Mr. Tamene still saw no reason to be alarmed: He found copies of the phishing emails in the D.N.C.’s spam filter. But he had no reason, he said, to believe that the computer systems had been infiltrated.

switch to Podesta (Clinton Campaign leader):

Podesta got an email saying he had to change his password immediately.

The email was sent to Charles Delavan to check it. Delavan knew it was a phishing attempt.

But Delavan emailed Podesta that it was a "legitimate" email by mistake. He meant to type "illegitimate".

Podesta changed his password w the phishing attack and opened up his 60,000 gmail acct emails.

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These people wanted to run the country

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Originally posted by Fenris:

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Originally posted by sdy:
Podesta got an email saying he had to change his password immediately.

The email was sent to Charles Delavan to check it. Delavan knew it was a phishing attempt.

But Delavan emailed Podesta that it was a "legitimate" email by mistake. He meant to type "illegitimate".

Podesta changed his password w the phishing attack and opened up his 60,000 gmail acct emails.

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These people wanted to run the country

Clowns. Simply clowns.

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Originally posted by sdy:
So we have Dept of Energy refusing to identify the people who worked on climate change.

Now the CIA refuses to brief congress after the claims that CIA "sources" believe Russia interfered to elect Trump.

CIA refused to brief tomorrow.

http://www.washingtonexaminer....robe/article/2609693

"It is unacceptable that the intelligence community directors would not fulfill the House Intelligence Committee's request to be briefed tomorrow on the cyberattacks that occurred during the presidential campaign," Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., wrote in a statement.

"The legislative branch is constitutionally vested with oversight responsibility of executive branch agencies, which are obligated to comply with our requests. The committee is vigorously looking into reports of cyberattacks during the election campaign, and in particular we want to clarify press reports that the CIA has a new assessment that it has not shared with us.

The committee is deeply concerned that intransigence in sharing intelligence with Congress can enable the manipulation of intelligence for political purposes."

On Monday, Nunes asked National Intelligence Director James Clapper to address his committee in response to reports about Russia's attempts to manipulate the U.S. election last month

"On November 17, 2016, you told the committee during an open hearing that the [intelligence community] lacked strong evidence connecting Russian government cyberattacks and WikiLeaks disclosures, testifying that 'as far as the WikiLeaks connection, the evidence there is not as strong, and we don't have good insight into the sequencing of the releases or when the data may have been provided,'" Nunes wrote in the letter. "According to new press reports, this is no longer the CIA's position."