NYT: US intel picked up chatter re: Russian GRU hacked emails being leaked as an "October surprise"

[sabra]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/14/us/politics/hunter-biden-ukraine-facebook-twitter.html

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The Times reported last January that Burisma had been hacked by the same Russian GRU unit that was one of two groups that hacked the Democratic National Committee in 2016. Last month, United States intelligence analysts contacted several people with knowledge of the Burisma hack for further information after they had picked up chatter that stolen Burisma emails would be leaked in the form of an “October surprise.”

Among their chief concerns, according to people familiar with the discussions, was that the Burisma material would be leaked alongside forged materials in an attempt to hurt Mr. Biden’s candidacy — as Russian hackers did when they dumped real emails alongside forgeries ahead of the 2017 French elections — a slight twist on Russia’s 2016 playbook when they siphoned leaked D.N.C. emails through fake personas on Twitter and WikiLeaks.

[yardwork]

1. Fortunately, this effort was so poorly executed only Maggie Haberman was fooled.

[Drum]

2. +1000!

[Backseat Driver]

7. Yeah, fool me once, shame on you, etc...remember the

Italian lettercake letter - their GD "surprise" tricks never end!

[Rule of Claw]

3. Well see here is the issue

even if they have anything real few will believe it.

And I don't believe they have anything real.

[Mike 03]

4. This is why Jack Dorsey's time is better spent at Twitter headquarters stopping

a further hemorrhage of Russian disinfo than testifying in some bullshit hearing before Ted Cruz.

[Rule of Claw]

5. I assume they got nothing damaging

because nothing damaging exists but just wanted the template to make fake ones look good?

[SWBTATTReg]

6. This email crap is way overdone and is 1950s stuff by now. Most sensitive stuff isn't done via emai

by now I suspect. The people in the know already know to not put anything online that is considered sensitive or company owned online, too much risk. The Russians and others need to go back to school.

[cbdo2007]

8. To the uneducated and elderly, email is still "scary"...

So this plays right into their fears. Remember they aren't trying to influence people like you and I, they are trying to away the easily gullible that Dems are scary and that technology and forward progress is scary.

[SWBTATTReg]

10. If these people are still in the 1950s w/ regards to email and such, and are that gullible, then...

perhaps they deserve to be left behind. Good grief. My mom was a big advocate of emails and such, and she was in her mid 80s.

Anybody that is that gullible I suspect wouldn't even know how to get news or even turn on a damn computer.

[TheRealNorth]

9. The idea is to shit in the pool (ie. The election)

so that only the deplorable will want to get in (ie. participate). That's when a base-only strategy would make sense.