Re:CIA malware and hacking tools
by steamer25 on Tuesday March 07, 2017 @12:16PM
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> although I can't imagine the CIA wanting to hack the election in Trump's favour
Doesn't preclude planting 'evidence' of Russian hacking to stir up a red scare (towards renewed cold war -level funding of the intelligence community) irrespective of the election's outcome. I.e., the fact that anyone actually uncovered secret data through some other means could have just been unrelated/incidental. E.g., if Wikileaks got their material from an inside whistle-blower as they've insinuated.
I wouldn't either be surprised if the 'evidence' of Russian interference was just circumstantial rather than planted... E.g., "Woah, we found evidence of probing originating from Russia (in the pile of probing evidence from script-kiddies all over the world, mostly Nigerian princes but those don't bolster our narrative)!"
Doesn't preclude planting 'evidence' of Russian hacking to stir up a red scare (towards renewed cold war -level funding of the intelligence community) irrespective of the election's outcome. I.e., the fact that anyone actually uncovered secret data through some other means could have just been unrelated/incidental. E.g., if Wikileaks got their material from an inside whistle-blower as they've insinuated.
I wouldn't either be surprised if the 'evidence' of Russian interference was just circumstantial rather than planted... E.g., "Woah, we found evidence of probing originating from Russia (in the pile of probing evidence from script-kiddies all over the world, mostly Nigerian princes but those don't bolster our narrative)!"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j_ZfKmcnSk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Northwoods
http://www.mintpressnews.com/migrant-crisis-syria-war-fueled...