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fleur-de-lisa

(14,628 posts)
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 02:49 PM Jan 2019

This Time It's Russia's Emails Getting Leaked

Source: The Daily Beast

Russian oligarchs and Kremlin apparatchiks may find the tables turned on them later this week when a new leak site unleashes a compilation of hundreds of thousands of hacked emails and gigabytes of leaked documents. Think of it as WikiLeaks, but without Julian Assange’s aversion to posting Russian secrets.

The site, Distributed Denial of Secrets, was founded last month by transparency activists. Co-founder Emma Best said the Russian leaks, slated for release Friday, will bring into one place dozens of different archives of hacked material that, at best, have been difficult to locate, and in some cases appear to have disappeared entirely from the web.

“Stuff from politicians, journalists, bankers, folks in oligarch and religious circles, nationalists, separatists, terrorists operating in Ukraine,” said Best, a national-security journalist and transparency activist. “Hundreds of thousands of emails, Skype and Facebook messages, along with lots of docs.”

Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoS, is a volunteer effort that launched last month. Its objective is to provide researchers and journalists with a central repository where they can find the terabytes of hacked and leaked documents that are appearing on the internet with growing regularity. The site is a kind of academic library or a museum for leak scholars, housing such diverse artifacts as the files North Korea stole from Sony in 2014, and a leak from the Special State Protection Service of Azerbaijan.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/this-time-its-russias-emails-getting-leaked?source=twitter&via=desktop

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This Time It's Russia's Emails Getting Leaked (Original Post) fleur-de-lisa Jan 2019 OP
In related news, Fox hires thousands to help their news deflection efforts in this onslaught. ffr Jan 2019 #1
This is a good start! Joe Nation Jan 2019 #2
That's like calling for Stalin to be overthrown in 1936. maxsolomon Jan 2019 #8
max, it's not easy to resist saidsimplesimon Jan 2019 #16
I remember it. maxsolomon Jan 2019 #18
I want him hanged in public display. saidsimplesimon Jan 2019 #19
As they say in Yiddish: maxsolomon Jan 2019 #20
Goya, need norcomment? saidsimplesimon Jan 2019 #22
Short version: it is an Authoritarian Kakistocracy maxsolomon Jan 2019 #3
Looking forward to this! kag Jan 2019 #4
Shine the light on truth saidsimplesimon Jan 2019 #5
Wlll they leak the pee-pee tapes, too? Liberty Belle Jan 2019 #6
GOD i hope soooo!!!!!!!!! bluestarone Jan 2019 #7
I'm not sure the pee tapes exist. fleur-de-lisa Jan 2019 #9
I agree More_Cowbell Jan 2019 #12
Heh Fuzzpope Jan 2019 #14
Agreed. Fuzzpope Jan 2019 #13
Wikileaks refused to host anything leaked from Russia More_Cowbell Jan 2019 #10
lol...DDOS TalenaGor Jan 2019 #11
Good (although the site is very slow right now) B Stieg Jan 2019 #15
Emma Best definitely has some courage. Calista241 Jan 2019 #17
I love it when the criminal gets his come-uppance Leith Jan 2019 #21
Maybe there is a tape Alwaysna Jan 2019 #23

Joe Nation

(963 posts)
2. This is a good start!
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 03:06 PM
Jan 2019

Whomever is elected next time needs to rally our allies, or those that we still have left at that point, and go after Russia with everything we have. Make them regret ever venturing outside of their own borders. Putin must be hung in Red Square.

maxsolomon

(33,400 posts)
8. That's like calling for Stalin to be overthrown in 1936.
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 03:26 PM
Jan 2019

You're not being realistic about the degree of control Putin and his cabal have established over Rusher.

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
16. max, it's not easy to resist
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 05:14 PM
Jan 2019

Please, remember Putin's Russia pograms (internet scrub or my misspelling?)

maxsolomon

(33,400 posts)
3. Short version: it is an Authoritarian Kakistocracy
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 03:07 PM
Jan 2019

run by a combination of the Russian Mob and the FSB, with the compliance and aid of the Orthodox Church.

fleur-de-lisa

(14,628 posts)
9. I'm not sure the pee tapes exist.
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 03:29 PM
Jan 2019

I think there are tapes of Trump that portray something far worse than hookers peeing on a bed.

Think 'Jeffrey Epstein-level', really bad tapes.

More_Cowbell

(2,191 posts)
12. I agree
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 04:13 PM
Jan 2019

I think there are tapes of him raping children. I think that the pee tape rumor (which Steele reported as just that: a rumor) was deliberately spread so that when it could be proven false, it would discredit the real dirt on Trump.

 

Fuzzpope

(602 posts)
14. Heh
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 04:17 PM
Jan 2019

We must have cross posted. Nearly identical thoughts. I think it started with one thing, but ended very different in the worst possible way.

 

Fuzzpope

(602 posts)
13. Agreed.
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 04:15 PM
Jan 2019

I've said that since day one. I believe there is extremely compromising video where he may have left no indulgence no matter how depraved or incriminating, left unsatisfied.

Including murder.

More_Cowbell

(2,191 posts)
10. Wikileaks refused to host anything leaked from Russia
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 03:38 PM
Jan 2019

"A lot of what WikiLeaks will do is organize and re-publish information that’s appeared elsewhere,” said Nicholas Weaver, a researcher at the University of California at Berkeley’s International Computer Science Institute. “They’ve never done that with anything out of Russia."

Because it's an agent of Russia.

Calista241

(5,586 posts)
17. Emma Best definitely has some courage.
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 05:24 PM
Jan 2019

The Russians are not afraid to have people killed in the most horrific way possible, and they've done it to people for far lessor offenses. For her to put her name to this project is admirable.

Leith

(7,813 posts)
21. I love it when the criminal gets his come-uppance
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 05:58 PM
Jan 2019

Is DDoS going to show the original Russian followed by an English translation?

It would be great to post threads about emails from Russians. Let them simmer and stew for a while.

Alwaysna

(574 posts)
23. Maybe there is a tape
Thu Jan 24, 2019, 06:24 PM
Jan 2019

Of Trump and Putin discussing and agreeing to terms of the conspiracy . This would be insurance for Putin that his puppet would remain loyal.

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