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Re:Grand Jury Indicts Russian Officers for Hacking Related t... by orbitingpluto on Friday July 13, 2018 @02:46PM (#17525633)
"On the evening of June 15, 2016 between 4:19PM and 4:56PM, defendants used their Moscow-based server to search for a series of English words and phrases that later appeared in Guccifer 2.0’s first blog post..."

That has got to be one of the scarier things I've read in some time as to the depth and breadth of current surveillance.

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Re:Grand Jury Indicts Russian Officers for Hacking Related t... by frankquist on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:26PM (#17526838)
Depth, certainly. Breadth, not necessarily (though I don't want to have much illusions regarding breadth). It could very well be that this information was gleaned from when the dutch hacked Cozy Bear. If that's the same group. https://www.volkskrant.nl/wetenschap/dutch-agencies-provide-... (link copied from another comment)
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