Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Intelligence Officer

Re:Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Int... by dragonwriter on Thursday March 22, 2018 @08:27PM (#16654024)

> These are not amateurs. They should know better.

Yeah, in every field there are lots of cases where people end up saying this because professionals who should know better don't. Or cut corners because of resource constraints. Or, just screw up something they actually do know. Or...

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Re:Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Int... by YarickR on Thursday March 22, 2018 @08:37PM (#16654062)

Or this is bullshit, plain and simple . You don't think outgoing connections are unproxied and unmonitored at GRU (GRU, of all things ? This is military intelligence, BTW) , do you ?

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Re:Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Int... by chillwaves on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:45AM (#16656990)

Have you worked with the US Gov't in any capacity?

They are just regular people. It's not a world of super spies. I am sure GRU is not that much different. Even the top folks eat corn flakes like everyone else.

People make mistakes all the time.

This might be bullshit but just saying so is hardly a compelling argument. I will wait for more evidence one way or another myself, with the obvious disclaimer that anything could be bullshit.

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Re:Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Int... by cc81 on Friday March 23, 2018 @04:47PM (#16662505)

For example when CIA accidentally lost control over all those hacker tools.

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Re:Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Int... by polotics on Thursday March 22, 2018 @09:33PM (#16654352)

military intelligence... greed, incompetence, office politics

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