Macron campaign knew the hackers were coming, so they laid atrap and defeated them

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

In a new chapter in this new world of election campaign cyberwars, the Macron campaign showed a brilliant way to counter the hackers.  As reported by the Daily Beast:

… part of the Macron campaign strategy against Fancy Bear (also known as Pawn Storm and Apt28) was to sign on to the phishing pages and plant bogus information.

“You can flood these [phishing] addresses with multiple passwords and log-ins, true ones, false ones, so the people behind them use up a lot of time trying to figure them out,” Mounir Mahjoubi, the head of Macron’s digital team, told The Daily Beast for its earlier article on this subject.

In the end, whoever made the dump may not have known what is real and what is false….

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/5/7/1659800/-Macron-campaign-knew-the-hackers-were-coming-so-they-laid-a-trap-and-defeated-them

[Me.]

1. Precisely What I Was Saying On A Thread Yesterday

To someone who said the Cons were the ones solely responsible for the hack of HRC and used the Macron victory as proof.

+1

[Jake Stern]

2. The DNC needs to hire Mounir Mahjoubi and his team ASAP

[monmouth4]

3. What would happen if we or some other country were to interfere with the election

in Russia? I write that term "election" with tongue in cheek...

[JudyM]

4. Mmmm. Interesting!