Russia planting "child porn" on the computers of foes.

[Cattledog]

"Hacking is not only a good way to get real information, like the emails of the D.N.C., but a relatively easy and usually untraceable way to plant fake information. For example, when unidentified hackers last year broke into the computers of a government research center in Lithuania, they stole nothing, but planted bogus reports on its website that the country’s stoutly pro-American president had worked as an escort and K.G.B. informer while a student in Leningrad during the Soviet era."

"Getting someone labeled a suspected pedophile has the added benefit of fitting “perfectly with the Kremlin’s line that human rights activists are all just degenerates,” said Vytis Jurkonis, a Lithuanian human rights activist who works with Russian exiles."

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/world/europe/vladimir-putin-russia-fake-news-hacking-cybersecurity.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=second-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

[MADem]

1. They aren't a "basket of deplorables" --they're a barrel of assholes. nt

[ck4829]

2. If verified, this should reduce Putinland to a pariah state

But seeing as this is post-fact-era-dise, it won't happen.

[vinny9698]

3. This technique of planting fake info and news has been around since the printed press.

This technique of planting fake info and news has been around since the printed press.
It has now gone with technology. Nothing new, just tech is new.

[Fla Dem]

4. They don't need to hack into computers to do that, fake news is all over the internets.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. Say, "It is a decadent Western phenomenon" with a heavy Russian accent....

Kinda takes ya back,...doesn't it.

[Augiedog]

6. All that needs to happen is for anonymous to plant kiddie porn on tRumps computer, then he

Will lash out and somewhere along the way some part of Russia will turn into a sea of glass. There you have it, kiddie porn kills the planet earth.

[edhopper]

7. Meet our new closest ally

once trump pulls from NATO.

[Silent3]

8. This is why mere possession, in and of itself, of anything should never count as a crime.

Yes, it will make many cases hard to prosecute, but our legal ideal is supposed to be that it's better to let a thousand guilty people go free than to unjustly punish a single innocent person.

When the prosecution doesn't need to prove that people knowingly and deliberately obtained something (be it drugs, porn, counterfeit currency, etc.), merely that an illegal item was somehow in their possession, it's too easy to frame innocent people.