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The metadata in the leaked documents are perhaps most revealing: one dumped document was modified using Russian language settings, by a user named Феликс Эдмундович, a code name referring to the founder of the Soviet Secret Police, the Cheka, memorialised in a 15-ton iron statue in front of the old KGB headquarters during Soviet times. The original intruders made other errors: one leaked document included hyperlink error messages in Cyrillic, the result of editing the file on a computer with Russian language settings. After this mistake became public, the intruders removed the Cyrillic information from the metadata in the next dump and carefully used made-up user names from different world regions, thereby confirming they had made a mistake in the first round.Then there is the language issue. I hate being attributed to Russia, the Guccifer 2.0 account told Motherboard, probably accurately. The person at the keyboard then claimed in a chat with Motherboards Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai that Guccifer 2.0 was from Romania, like the original Guccifer, a well-known hacker. But when asked to explain his hack in Romanian, he was unable to respond colloquially and without errors. Guccifer 2.0s English initially was also weak, but in subsequent posts the quality improved sharply, albeit only on political subjects, not in technical mattersan indication of a team of operators at work behind the scenes.
http://www.peacock-panache.com/2016/07/russian-hackers-emails-wikileaks-23928.html
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/all-signs-point-to-russia-being-behind-the-dnc-hack
Tal Vez
(660 posts)he weakness of these emails is that they cannot be authenticated by anyone. The dumpers will never come forward.
n/t
Stinky The Clown
(67,677 posts). . . . . and I believe it is . . . . . no one will pay attention. The damage is already done. Sorting out the facts will not be complete for months, if ever. Meanwhile, the Dems are hurt and Drumpovich is not.
Mission accomplished.
The (D) are only hurt to the extent they allow this to exacerbate internal divisions that were already there. It's the DNC that was hacked, that really, most (I) don't care about DNC-internal wranglings. They'll look at HRC vs Trump and that's where they'll focus.
Trump is hurt to the extent the "Trump's Putin's bitch" label flies. All the other innuendo about his "not going to defend NATO allies if attacked" or "respecting Putin because of his policies" twists on actual quotes notwithstanding, if there's any actual help from Russia it's in the hacking and release of the emails (or, for believers, the emails support the claim).
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)not the emails.
liberal from boston
(856 posts)Why did the DNC apologize to Sanders Campaign if the emails were altered?? Just read that Clinton Campaign fears more leaks are coming.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)have nothing to do with the emails. The leaked documents and metadata referred to in the OP are the DNC Trump Research documents leaked in June.
See: http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/06/guccifer-leak-of-dnc-trump-research-has-a-russians-fingerprints-on-it/ from June 16th 2016.
And: https://www.wired.com/2016/06/chaotic-whodunnit-follows-dncs-trump-research-hack/ from June 15th 2016
former9thward
(31,802 posts)They have apologized for them.
Igel
(35,197 posts)It gets really petty to say: "Okay, 10,000 emails. But #923 had the following 3 words changed, and in #5982 the word 'not' was deleted. In #9882 they added this sentence. So we apologize for the others, but we are going to exclude those three."
Not saying any were. Just saying that unless the alterations were really massive, well, just "meh."
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)and also knowing he will go tell Putin. Maybe they will keep him at the kiddie table.