ProtonMail, Cambridge Analytica and Konstantin Rykov's confession.
Just watched the third part of the BBC documentary about Cambridge Analytica and how they claimed to have helped Donald Trump in the 2016 election.
What caught my attention was how CA suggests use of ProtonMail for their clients to use for communication. ProtonMail allows encrypted messages to be sent securely and then destroyed several hours after having been read.
This seems to jive with Kremlin internet propagandist Konstantin Rykov's November 2016 bombshell confession on Facebook where he claims to have run a social media campaign from Russia to help get Donald Trump elected, and how he used--among other things--Cambridge Analytica data to run it.
Here's the relevant portion of the confession (as translated):
Note this part:
The next step was to develop a system for transferring tasks and information, so that no gebuha and NSA could not burn it.
How to make it so that even people who do not speak each other's language, could exchange information faster than everyone, understand each other from a half-word, feel the trends and influence their development?
The programming of such a system took about a year. Another year left for tests and revision. Eventually. For a year with a little, we installed a "Media Filter" for everyone who had time to pull up our conspiracy and on August 18, 2015, opened the portal Trump-2016.
If you look up the wiki for ProtonMail, you'll find the following timeline on ProtonMail's development:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProtonMail
Development[edit]
On 16 May 2014, ProtonMail entered into public beta.[9] Within three days, ProtonMail was met with an overwhelming response and was forced to temporarily suspend beta signups while they worked to expand server capacity.[10]
On 31 July 2014, ProtonMail received US$550,377 from 10,576 donors through a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo, while aiming for US$100,000.[11] During the campaign, PayPal froze ProtonMail's PayPal account, thereby preventing the withdrawal of US$251,721 worth of donations. PayPal stated that the account was frozen due to doubts of the legality of encryption, statements that opponents said were unfounded.[12][13] The restrictions were lifted the following day.[14]
On 18 March 2015, ProtonMail received US$2 million from Charles River Ventures and the Fondation Genevoise pour l'Innovation Technologique (Fongit).[15]
On 13 August 2015, ProtonMail released version 2.0, which was the most significant update in ProtonMail's history and included a new codebase for its web interface and introduced significant performance enhancements. The ProtonMail team simultaneously released the source code for the web interface under an open-source license.[16]
So ProtonMail was first introduced in May 2014, goes through further developments, and receives a major update on August 13, 2015.
Meanwhile, Rykov talks about the development of an encrypted means for communication which came out over a year after he had started planning on getting Trump elected US President (he claims to have been inspired on Election Night 2012 by a picture of a grinning Trump). He says it remained in beta testing for about a year before being debuted in final form, and after that, he launches his Russian Trump website.
Which he did on August 18, 2015.
Five days after ProtonMail's updated version debuted.
Coincidence?
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She received and transmitted all of Cheeto's emails for him.
