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CousinIT

(12,361 posts)
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 10:48 PM Dec 2016

Expert: We caught Russian hackers in the act (video at link)

In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Dmitri Alperovitch, whose firm investigated the DNC hack, said that their firm did, in fact, catch two groups associated with Russian intelligence agencies in the act.

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2016/12/12/dmitri-alperovitch-intv-donald-trump-russia-hack-sot-tsr.cnn

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doc03

(38,930 posts)
1. Wow this just gets worse and worse. It took months for stuff to come to light
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 10:56 PM
Dec 2016

in Watergate, this is like a flood.

 

KittyWampus

(55,894 posts)
5. Yes, they originally left some Cyrillic markers and tried to back in and erase them
Mon Dec 12, 2016, 11:16 PM
Dec 2016

and make it look like it wasn't Russian hackers.

hamsterjill

(17,185 posts)
7. I heard this interview when it aired.
Tue Dec 13, 2016, 12:29 PM
Dec 2016

I thought Mr. Alperovitch did a magnificent job of explaining their process AND in explaining how they were nonpartisan, etc.

He laughed at Trump's premise that you cannot trace a hack.

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