Russian Code
Submitted by Dark Knight on Fri, 12/30/2016 - 9:46am
Not being a programmer myself, I'm puzzled as to why this document fingering Russian hackers doesn't explain how they can conclude that this was indeed the Russian Spy Agencies: Grizzly Steppe
After a summary, pages 1-4 of the report details how the hack took place. Page 5 shows us the incriminating code, with no explanation about why this code is Russian. And page 6- 13 is focused on recommendations for improving security on networks.
Again... "Why is this evidence Russian Code?"
I'm sure I'm not the only one pointing this out, but the lack of journalism on this matter is pathetic as the mainstream runs with the story.
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Here's a good report on RT
The following is what $50 billion dollars/year worth of "Intelligence" gets you:
The US is getting ripped off. I could hire three teenage hackers for a large pizza and a dozen cokes to do the same hack.
The Russian Hackers Did It! Evidence! Sanctions!
But... But... But...
Here is WordFence Security's Analysis on the subject.
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I was about to do a quick essay when I saw Dark Knight had published...
Yep! Positive Proof the Russians Did It!
Sanctions and Let's Get Ready For War! /Snark
Lets hope that Trump can end this madness...
We know for sure the Hillary "The Mad Bomber" Clinton wouldn't and indicators of this baseless accusation point squarely back to her and her campaign...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
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Wow!
This is worth an essay of its own to help explain things.
Thank you!
I may do one yet...
Spend some time over the weekend rather than a quick one...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Great link.
The comments were interesting. There were comments. There were people who believe the Russians did it, but in asserting that, had to perform gymnastic leaps of logic, or perform acts of faith.
I really just dont get the outrage
Any server left insecure, as the DNC servers where, WILL be hacked, if it wasn't the russians, it would have been the chinese, if not the chinese then some teenager in his/her parents basement.
Not to say that hackers shouldnt be prosecuted when possible, its just that much more of the blame lies with whoever setup the hacked server. And the hacker can rarely be prosecuted, 99.9% they are either not in the US's jurisdiction, or if they are won't be found regardless.
Any server on the internet is a continuing task, requiring continual monitoring and maintenance. firewalls, intrusion detection, software, monitoring security updates for all their server software, ensuring updates are installed. More computers are hacked using known security problems then unknown ones because people haven't updated their computers, and given the software that is alleged to have been used then this is the case with the DNC servers.
And an organization such as the DNC shouldn't be using email in the first place for most of their communications, email, or smtp protocol even with encryption is hideously insecure, due to emails design to work across different types of networks, In this case I mean something more basic Email works on networks that are not based on Internet Protocol(IP), and is designed to allow messages to be proxyed across multiple different networks, In effect its impossible to maintain authoritative control of ANY message sent out of the email system, or obtain authoritative control over ANY message sent in.
Alternative secure message exchange protocols, or Email that only works internally with white listed servers that also use client SSL certificates are an absolute must.
Further an organization like the DNC should probably run their own root Certificate authority, as they should NEVER trust any third party, even organizations such as Verisign should not be trusted.
Client devices that access messages need to also be controlled, intentionally using client software that does not store messages locally, even a cached message is a security risk, Older messages should automatically be removed and archived as to limit the scope of a co-promised client devices leak. Client devices should as well use Client SSL certificates, that can be revoked at a moments notice.
If I was the DNC, well I would be suspecting inside job, not russian hacking, but If I where them, I would start with firing the entire IT staff, firing ALL IT contractors, The rebuilding the IT infrastructure from the ground up. They have had compromised servers, they need to move on the assumption that NONE of their servers can be trusted.
Honestly the DNC's non-chalant attitude towards IT is one of the things I find to be really disturbing.
I don't see how it links?
I didn't read the attachments, so maybe the evidence is in there, but that document didn't have evidence of anything. For starters, with the exception of a few sprinkled sentences, what is described is an observed pattern of behavior, not a description of the intrusion. Which also happens to be just a general description of how hacking is often done, its not a signature. For example, this sentence
... If you read it carefully, that's how a lot of the document is worded - allowing the reader to jump to the conclusion that behaviors observed over time are the ones being described in this incident.
I also didn't see anywhere that apt28/29 is linked to the Russians, other than the US government confirms it.
The whole thing reeks of obfuscation. If I'm writing this and trying to convince a non-technical audience, I'd be a lot more specific with things like
a) this is how hacking is often done
b) this is what we've observed from this actor in the past
c) this is what makes the actions we've observed in the past distinguishable and unique - a "signature"
d) this is what we observed in this instance
e) point out what matches c) above
f) therefore....the actor is guilty
and further
g) this is how we know the actor is Russian
I saw a lot of a) and b) indistinguishable, and used interchangeably, with d). I didn't see anything c) or e) or g)
Maybe all that is in the attachments, I don't know, I guess I should read them.
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loved the first comment
"Might as well say Bigfoot did it."
Yep! Anyone Coulda Done It...
With Flimsy Evidence at best...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
Even if ...
We knew conclusively it was Russians. Even if we knew that it was official Russian agencies. Given that the released data was not doctored (and none of those screaming claims it is), what's the beef/ Why is Obama creating an international incident? Yes, it's illegal and warrants a stiff note. but we do the same thing. at least I hope we do.
How is it "interfering with our election"? No ballots were falsified or ruined. No one was kept from voting. No ballot boxes stuffed. No false narrative released. Is this any different from the Pentagon Papers? or Woodward and Bernstein? The DNC was caught lying and that's Putin's fault?
Look I'm an old Cold Warrior. I hate Putin's guts. Trump disgusts me. But fair is fair. This is the world today and how it has been for more than a century. If true, Putin did us a favor! At least we know the incoming President is a sleazy incompetent. Without the Russians we would be inaugurating the other sleazy incompetent without the public knowing it.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
"Without....
....the Russians we would be inaugurating the other sleazy incompetent without the public knowing it."
*Snark* Been reading any Fake News Lately?
"I hate Putin's guts."
Perfect. Just the person to ask.
Can you tell me what big horrible thing Putin did to the United States to make Americans hate him with such intensity?
I know he must have done something really terrible to the American people, but I can't find any mention of it anywhere.
Thanks.
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
He ate their lunch a few times
diplomatically that is, and he kicked out those who were robbing Russia under Yeltsin. Our thug and bandit class hate him, thus the toadies who lick their boots do too.
"Obama promised transparency, but Assange is the one who brought it."
THIS
It's all you need to know.
This has descended into an alternate universe alright
We keep screaming -' but what the emails revelaed was the election interference by the DNC!'. Obama and the Clinton crime family and virtually the entire MSM say-'but Russia, Russia, Russia!'
And now we see that Russia and Turkey have a good chance to broker the Syian ceasefire and it looks like the 'moderate' rebels the US backed have massacred Aleppo citizens. Nice foreign policy, eh? This is what Obama and Clinton foreign policy has brought us.
Trump, meanwhile, has been put into a hell of a situation. Either he agrees that Russia hacked and bought him an election or he reverses Obama's sanctions and becomes Russia's stooge. Unpredictable Trump now has a chance to astonish all of us!
Trump has already proved he is a master of playing both sides
of the fence and is superb at selling Shinola. He's the guy at the carnival that gets you to buy something that you think you want but wonder why you bought it when you get home. There is one saving grace - he can be persuaded to sell whatever most of the people want. It's going to be all about who gets his ear.
Hillary, on the other hand, advertises a product you want but packages it in a brown paper wrapping. It's only when you get home and unwrap it do you realize it was not what you thought you were buying (Obama redux).
Exactly! The Evidence is Stronger...
That the "Democrats Hacked The Primary Election" than any other election hacking in 2016...
I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
~John F. Kennedy~
Economic: -9.13, Social: -7.28,
They are the reigning world champs in the
"Look! Over there---> Squirrel!!!" defense category in the Blame Game Olympics where the only rule is "Oh yeah, WE did it but it's all ________________'s fault".
I'm tired of this back-slapping "Isn't humanity neat?" bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are. - Bill Hicks
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry. - Frank Zappa
The CIA affects regime change in foreign nations by spreading
lies and half truths. Putin affects regime change by spreading truths.
I doubt that. Very few people actually read the hacked emails. It was the media's response to them with Trump taking advantage. Trump knew how to play the media like a fine fiddle. He's a skilled carnival barker. We all knew that. Just look at the viewer ratings of his show The Apprentice.
If you look back, Hillary had a lower favorability rating with Trump before the primaries. She got a small bump at the convention but went even lower afterwards. At this time only her emails as Secretary of State had been released from a FOI request to the State Department - nothing to do with Russia (unless you believe Putin made the FOI request).
Hillary lost, fair and square, because she was a tainted product. She had finally triangulated herself into a corner she could not get out of. All this Russian hacking crap is just a way of trying to cover up America's embarrassment in voting in a carnival barker for president.
BTW, back in July, Putin publicly stated that the US is not a real democracy because "twice in history was a president elected that did not have the popular vote". He explicitly stated that the Electoral College was not a democratic entity. Hillary's supporters laughed at him. It seems they've changed their tune. Too bad that Putin can now say "three times".
Say what you will, but the American public knows the difference between shit and Shinola. They went for the Shinola.
Edit: This post was in response to The Voice In th...
If Bernie Sanders'
coverage was positive, it was positive in a "you childish Socialist" tone. Especially in Editorial Content: Swat Team
In an election everything is perception and relatative.
You should read the full article. It actually pointed out why Hillary would lose to Trump back in June. It also shows that Sanders could have won if the DNC would have played square and fair. This election was won on who had the least perceived negatives.
I agree wholeheartedly.
I think you read my last sentence wrong or I worded it clumsily.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
If we, the taxpayers, are on the hook
paying to secure the Democratic Party's network and to avenge the alleged Russian hackers, can anyone tell me why they are a private organization entitled to hold closed primaries (again at taxpayers' expense)?
"Please clap." -- Jeb Bush
Because taxation without representation is how we roll. -nt
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The political system is what it is because the People are who they are. — Plato
It looks to me like Obama is simply
pissed off because Putin has out-maneuvered him in every important confrontation of the past several years. Especially in Syria, where his Administration has doggedly pursued a wrong-headed policy from the start, only to have finally failed to achieve its objectives. How humiliating to Obama's considerable vanity that must be.
These recent hacking accusations are ill-founded, they ring hollow. Worse, Obama's retaliatory gestures are utterly ineffectual.They make him look weak and petulant, while handing to Putin the role of being the responsible diplomat -- once again! Why would a seemingly intelligent man like Obama be acting so foolishly? What possible strategic benefit can there be in deliberately and pointlessly antagonizing Russia? How can re-starting the Cold War possibly benefit America and Americans in any way?
native
These questions
are the same ones I have been asking myself. Obama is playing a very dangerous game here and it plays into the hands of the neocon warmongers.
I keep asking why would Obama do such a foolhardy thing to push us closer to the brink of war with Russia over something that we have no proof of. This is a war that the United States cannot win and iIt makes no sense. There is zero proof that the Russians or anyone else hacked our election system and even if they did, it does not appear to affected the ultimate outcome. Second, expelling diplomats is a serious thing to do. Like you posted, it makes Obama look childish and petulant, just like another blog owner has lately. It is not an action that is becoming to the President of supposedly, the richest and most powerful nation on earth. I see no benefit to the American people from these actions by Obama.
If I could characterize Obama's foreign policy, it has been attempts to isolate China economically via the TPP and to isolate Russia militarily. Again, the question becomes, what is the benefit to the American people to do these things? My own answer is that Obama has not been, nor is he now, working for the American people.
Do I hear the sound of guillotines being constructed?
“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." ~ President John F. Kennedy
Foreign policy has never been Obama's strong suit
I believe he allowed himself to be pulled/pushed in whatever way the winds in Washington blew at any particular time. The entirety of all his foreign policy decisions have been schizophrenic in every single major decision he had to make (including some major domestic ones).
Iraq - troops out/troops stay,
Afghanistan - more troops/less troops
Libya - bomb/not bomb
Syria - bomb/not bomb, supply weapons/stop weapons, support terrorists/don't support
Ukraine - leave to basement crazies
Russia - read prepared scripts
Obama appears to be a front man who reads well and looks good in public.
TPP isolate China?
How? it allowed them to sue over every federal safety and food purity regulation. It opened up laissez-faire trade.
I've seen lots of changes. What doesn't change is people. Same old hairless apes.
Only to members within the TPP group. China was excluded.
The member states are: the US, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Singapore, Brunei, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Mexico, Chile and Peru. Members of the TPP were to have preferential trade policies to foster trade between them. It was likened to having a single market like the EU - no tariffs, common regulations, packaging, etc.
It's an attempt to curtail China's growing economic power as the US can no longer achieve that w/o outside help. Economic power now trumps (!) military power when it comes to the major nations. The US is slowly but surely coming to this realization. Unfortunately, it has a 600 billion dollar gorilla hanging around its neck sucking its life blood that it cannot shake off.
If you look back at the last two plus decades, you will have seen China rapidly filling coffers while the US has been filling coffins in every corner of the globe. China is copying the US rise to economic power while the US is copying Caesar with military overexpansion and overspending.
But, as you say, TPP can open up laissez-faire trade if the members work to the lowest common denominator (which, being run by corporatism always looking to increase the bottom line, they definitely will attempt to do).
The list of prospective TPP members always *excluded* China
This was an essential aspect of the TPP concept from the very start.
Have you looked at MIC donations?
Many in official government positions will make bank on a new cold war. As for america and the general population.......Notta.
Regardless of the path in life I chose, I realize it's always forward, never straight.
Obama's latest prank is ousting 35 Russian diplomats
Putin's (mature) response was he will not play the tit-for-tat game.
Putin gives Obama another well deserved spanking:
And now who looks like the
"adult in the room?" Certainly not our war mongering Obummer, working as hard as he can to cover up another Clintonian mess. I guess we can figure out just where he might end up, eh? He looks just like a spoiled petulant child as others out here have put it so well. He'll fit right in at the Clinton Foundation, won't he? Only narcissists need apply.
Only a fool lets someone else tell him who his enemy is. Assata Shakur
Why doesn't anyone ask about ...
The DNC staffer that was murdered this summer?
http://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/Man-Shot-Killed-in-Northwest-DC-...
Assange and wikileaks offer reward.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-08-10/wikileaks-assange-hints-murdere...
Podesta's leak could have been a phishing scam
http://nypost.com/2016/10/29/heres-how-hackers-stole-50000-of-john-podes...
or could have been accessed when he lost his phone
http://www.inquisitr.com/3628787/wikileaks-clintons-campaign-chairman-lo...
It is easy to see right through this Russia distraction.
“Until justice rolls down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.”
It takes an effort of willful blindness
not to see through it. Unfortunately there's plenty of willful blindness in the higher reaches of the Democratic Party, and plenty of paid-off MIC supporters too.
native
My favorite comment from the RT article
This made me laugh.
I'd be fired if I exposed our customer's data because I clicked a phishing link.
Absolutely!
Thank you.