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Re:Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Int... by geofft on Thursday March 22, 2018 @09:52PM (#16654449)
If you have gained remote access to a Russian intelligence officer's computer, I feel like spoofing an HTTP request to a social media site is the least exciting thing to do with that access.

Don't confuse the ease of installing tools that let you maintain access once you have gained access with the ease of gaining access in the first place.

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Re:Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russian Int... by 1337biz on Friday March 23, 2018 @09:25AM (#16657805)
If you have access to a device of some low level employee there is no harm in burning it for a high profile operation like the guccifer story. This was not just a random Twitter bot, but potentially at a global-scandal level. Whoever coordinated this was certainly not a some random fool.
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