How Hackers Broke into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gmail Accounts

Re:How Hackers Broke into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gm... by mikeryan on Thursday October 20, 2016 @11:19PM (#12757941)

There is no reason for them to not source the evidence they're using to attribute it to the Russians

What if the source is an actual human asset within the malicious organization?

What if the source is a compromised server of the Russian organization?

What if the source is a legal wiretap on a bad actor?

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Re:How Hackers Broke into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gm... by h4nkoslo on Friday October 21, 2016 @01:15PM (#12762375)

Assuming it was Russia, and that they did derive it from some secret means, public announcing they discovered it but not giving the source makes that inference more likely.

That's why eg in World War II, the allies only acted on Enigma intercepts if there was a plausible alternate source.

So my inference is that they're lying about having sufficient evidence to definitively point at the rooskies, or they're being reckless with sourcing.

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