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In reply to the discussion: Wasn't sure whether to believe the Anonymous/Rove story,until the reaction telling us to shut up @it [View all]Hugin
(38,033 posts)This is how I've heard feelings like you are experiencing described in the past. I can understand how the insistent caterwauling of those who see nothing here and their calls for discussion to move along as there's nothing to see here might heighten your curiosity and suspicions in the matter.
Maybe, we should discuss it.
OTOH, We have:
Personally, after reading technical descriptions of Romney's laughable Rube Goldbergian apparatus known as ORCA. I have to think it's possible "Ham Head" Rove may have spent some of his (or the Koch's money, I should say) on some sort of software application of his own. If such a thing exists then it's possible some persons stumbled upon it and decided to observe it and derive it's possible function. As, that's what self-described "hackers" do.
OTOH, We have:
Was it an Election Changing software package? I doubt it. Although, I can see Rove and/or whoever sold it to him portraying it that way. They LIKE the simplicity of a silver-bullet solution. Having thusly oversold it, I can see where Rove NEEDS something like the explanation of a shady group of anonymous (note the lower case "a"
"hackers" to soothe his very burned benefactors.
Software Hacking is only one facet of the whole realm of Social-Engineering. I'm sure that in a large public event like an Election where many millions of livelihoods and many Trillions of Dollars are concerned there is both official and un-official social engineering efforts in action on all sides.