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In reply to the discussion: If Anonymous has definitive proof that Rove tried to hack the vote, present it. [View all]sofa king
(10,857 posts)In that statement that "someone" released, it said that they considered catching Karl in the act, but decided instead to make it impossible for him to steal it in the first place. So there should be little or no evidence that Karl tried, because he was prevented from getting close enough to do it.
Even if it is a substance-less propaganda piece, it is a thoughtful one. The letter is pretty careful to note that the infiltrators did not interfere with Republican get-out-the-vote efforts, but instead disabled that software after the polls closed on the West Coast.
If other accounts that claim ORCA had access to read/write result pages are true, the intent of disabling ORCA after the polls closed is clear: Republicans wouldn't be able to use the monitoring software to change the results...
... so aside from the circumstantial evidence of hundreds of attempts to access the software after its use was purportedly at an end, there should be no direct evidence of a theft.
The backdoor allowing Rove to change the results in three states was unexpectedly protected with some sort of a firewall; that was not the ORCA/GOTV software. The writer made certain to distinguish between the two. Those backdoors were shut with a separate operation.
And if Karl couldn't get through his rat-holes, there would be no direct evidence of a theft there, either. But producing the code would be direct evidence that Anonymous was breaking the law.
Producing code that exposes the existence of a backdoor does nothing to implicate Rove or anyone else. It would have been dismissed as a harmless and unknown backdoor left behind by a software engineer--as intended, no doubt. The press would have immediately been directed to ask whether or not Anonymous stole the election, not Karl.
Furthermore, if Anonymous really did interfere with Rove's plans, they would be suicidal to present actual evidence against Rove instead of using it to protect themselves.
There is no rule of law in the United States and there hasn't been in a decade, at least. These people are going up against the person who invented that state of affairs--the very guy who destroyed American justice, possibly forever. These kids have no real protection, legal or otherwise. It's all about the muscle you bring to the fight, and once they're caught, these kids have none.
Karl Rove has a dozen US Attorneys in his pocket, the state of Texas, hundreds of millions in pocketed campaign cash, and one dead IT guru notched on his belt already. One or more of these script kiddies always gets busted, eventually, unless....
...Unless Karl stands to lose more than he gains by pursuing vengeance. Then nobody gets busted, and this remains a conspiracy theory. The people who did it--if they did it--are only safe as long as the action remains in doubt, and if they can hold something over the GOP's head to make it stay in doubt, they might live to see another election.
Or, it could all be crap. But it's clever crap, one way or the other. Whoever wrote that letter (it looks like more than one person wrote it, to me--watch how the "kingmaker" paragraph changes its voice) thought carefully about what was said and how.