2016 Postmortem

Barack_America

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14. Why do these hackers do this? Blackmail?

Reply to CentralCoaster (Reply #2)

Wed May 4, 2016, 10:06 PM

May 2016

Or just some sort of thrill?

Crazy stuff.

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IT people re: the hacker's claim about HRC server. [View all] grasswire May 2016 OP

For fuck's sake. JTFrog May 2016 #1

Guccifer claims to have secreted 2GB of data. Stashed away, as it were. CentralCoaster May 2016 #2

Right. And Assange will release the banking 'poison pill' data any day now. randome May 2016 #9

LOL. And you believe that our government is working for the people. rhett o rick May 2016 #37

Why do these hackers do this? Blackmail? Barack_America May 2016 #14

Yeah, thrills and the challenge of it, and maybe the hopes of a payoff. CentralCoaster May 2016 #15

It reminds me of the mindset of a vandal. Destroy for destruction sake. nt artislife May 2016 #26

Do which? Chan790 May 2016 #19

Well... Barack_America May 2016 #22

I don't know? Chan790 May 2016 #25

Like everyone else. Money is its own reward. leveymg May 2016 #27

You might find this NY Times article from 2014 about Gruccifer of interest... PoliticAverse May 2016 #33

Good backgrounder I had missed unc70 May 2016 #42

Sorta. jeff47 May 2016 #3

some who are discussing this tonight are fearful..... grasswire May 2016 #6

Again, not directly. jeff47 May 2016 #16

I guess the NSA is tracking everything? Rosa Luxemburg May 2016 #10

Only of government systems. jeff47 May 2016 #17

I think they would make an exception for her. leveymg May 2016 #29

all the worry about homeland security and terrorists Rosa Luxemburg May 2016 #49

NSA hard to use in criminal case unc70 May 2016 #43

can you answer the question? grasswire May 2016 #4

The really skilled Land of Enchantment May 2016 #13

How would we know Travis_0004 May 2016 #5

well, he says he has 2 gb of national secrets stashed somewhere. grasswire May 2016 #8

He's not the only one. panader0 May 2016 #20

Platte River, and Datto. grasswire May 2016 #23

If he is telling the truth, Guccifer likely has the Foundation leveymg May 2016 #31

could be, could be! grasswire May 2016 #35

Maybe he has the transcripts! nt 2cannan May 2016 #34

I totally believe everything he says anigbrowl May 2016 #28

People don't generally want to get LEGAL attention . . . maybe social or cultural, but they don't pdsimdars May 2016 #46

My understanding is that Hillary's basement server was not connected to the White House network. Maedhros May 2016 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author Bob41213 May 2016 #11

It's hard to say without knowing how the data stream was migrated from the State to Clinton�s server NWCorona May 2016 #12

Clap for Tinkerbell!######nt msanthrope May 2016 #18

Possibly, and depends Bob41213 May 2016 #21

She wasn't permitted to carry her Blackberry into State Dept. HooptieWagon May 2016 #24

But there are those pictures of her with her blackberry in that wood paneled hallway. pdsimdars May 2016 #47

Guccifer is to Emailgate as Curveball was to the Iraq War Tarc May 2016 #30

There is some truth to that. Tyler Drumheller. leveymg May 2016 #32

yes, that. nt grasswire May 2016 #36

He already had hacked Sidney Blumenthal's e-mail account. He used header information from Hillary's w4rma May 2016 #38

No, since the server was separate from the State Department nadinbrzezinski May 2016 #39

Based on the interview he did not use any sophisticated skills Ash_F May 2016 #40

That's what I read also. polly7 May 2016 #41

He took over an AOL account because he knew Blumenthal's dog's name Recursion May 2016 #44

The whole point of her private server was that it wasn't connected to the government. pdsimdars May 2016 #45

She transferred classified material from State to her private server Samantha May 2016 #48