President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

lakefront · Jul 17, 2018

a little more humor...

HanSenSE · Jul 17, 2018

Love of Trump costs the kid a scholarship?

Cal Poly pulls scholarship of ex-Oakdale wrestler after video shows him shouting slur

DanielSimpsonDay · Jul 17, 2018

lakefront said: ↑

a little more humor...

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is that a gay joke

Slacker · Jul 17, 2018

Recognize anyone outside this picture?

Big Circus · Jul 17, 2018

Slacker said: ↑

Let's be clear, though: YF's true motivation in raising hell over a cutline mistake is to distract from all the people who showed up on camera while cozying up to the real spy Maria Butina. Including this doddering super-patriot right here ...

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Far be it from me to defend Wayne LaPierre, but he IS a patriot. A Patrick Henry High School Patriot, class of 1970, along with my mother.

Steak Snabler · Jul 17, 2018

Slacker · Jul 17, 2018

Big Circus said: ↑

Far be it from me to defend Wayne LaPierre, but he IS a patriot. A Patrick Henry High School Patriot, class of 1970, along with my mother.
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Say what you will, but LaPierre is no super-Patriot. How's stupor-Patriot work for you?

And you must, of course, tell us what your mom thought of him ...

TigerVols · Jul 17, 2018

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Recognize anyone outside this picture?

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That’s silly.

Slacker · Jul 17, 2018

TigerVols said: ↑

That’s silly.
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You didn't mean that.
And if you did, it's not a big deal.
Others have said worse.

Double Down · Jul 17, 2018

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Here you go, YF. This is the best thumbnail explanation for "Why won't they hand over the server?" I've seen yet.

"First off, CrowdStrike, the company the DNC brought in to initially investigate and remediate the hack, actually shared images of the DNC servers with the FBI. For the purposes of an investigation of this type, images are much more useful than handing over metal and hardware, because they are bit-by-bit copies of a crime scene taken while the crime was going on. Live hard drive and memory snapshots of blinking, powered-on machines in a network reveal significantly more forensic data than some powered-off server removed from a network. It’s the difference between watching a house over time, carefully noting down who comes and goes and when and how, versus handing over a key to a lonely boarded-up building. By physically handing over a server to the FBI as Trump suggested, the DNC would in fact have destroyed evidence. (Besides, there wasn’t just one server, but 140.)

An advanced investigation of an advanced hacking operation requires significantly more than just access to servers. Investigators want access to the attack infrastructure—the equivalent to a chain of getaway cars of a team of burglars. And the latest indictments are rich with details that likely come from intercepting command-and-control boxes (in effect, bugging those getaway cars) and have nothing to do with physical access to the DNC’s servers.

With help from the broader intelligence community, the FBI was able to piece all these details together into the bigger picture of the GRU’s vast hacking effort. The complexity of high-tempo, high-volume hacking campaigns means that attackers can make myriad mistakes; Mueller’s latest indictments reveal just how successful American investigators have been at exploiting those repeated errors and uncovering more and more information about what Russia did.

The Russian spies, for example, reused a specific account for a virtual private network (a purportedly secure communication link) to register deceptive internet domains for the DNC hack, as well as to post stolen material online under the Guccifer 2.0 front. Cryptocurrency payments—the kind the Russians used to pay for registering the DCLeaks.com site and their VPN—were neither as anonymous nor as secure as the GRU thought they would be. Third-party platforms including Google, Twitter and the link-shortening service Bitly were convenient and reliable for Russian hackers, but they could also be subpoenaed. Mueller’s team did exactly that, reconstructing how, when and how frequently Russian intelligence officers communicated with WikiLeaks, which they used as an outlet for the stolen material. The Russians weren’t even particularly careful: WikiLeaks and the Russians officers, in a major cock-up, encrypted the hacked emails, but did not encrypt the details of their collaboration. And in using a Bitly account to automate the shortened links sent out to targets of their email-phishing scheme, the GRU left an investigative gold mine: a vast target list of more than 10,000 potential victims’ email addresses.

American spies could even watch the Russian spies trying, in vain, to cover their tracks, likely in real time. Indeed, the Russian officers made so many mistakes that it is almost surprising the GRU even tried to be stealthy. The U.S. intelligence community has stunning visibility into GRU hacking operations—not just against the DNC, but against the Hillary Clinton campaign, the DCCC and state election infrastructure. The notion that all this high-resolution visibility hinges on physical access to “the DNC server” defies logic or even a basic understanding of what is actually happening."

What Mueller Knows About the DNC Hack—And Trump Doesn’t
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This is a good share but it assumes that any complaints about turning over the physical server are made in good faith, which of course they are not.

Inky_Wretch · Jul 17, 2018

Not sure I can sleep at night as I worry Montenegro will plunge us into WWIII.

melock · Jul 17, 2018

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