Macron may have phished the russian hackers

[duncang]

According to the Daily Beast Macron may have planted fake stuff knowing the russian hackers may make it in. The meat of the article is toward the bottom.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/06/did-macron-outsmart-campaign-hackers

[hlthe2b]

1. Well, if he did, it is the first smart approach to the Russian meddling we've seen--turn it back on

them--especially knowing it can't be discussed 24 hours prior to the election.

I hope this bodes well for Macron becoming the innovative and effective leader France needs, because LePen will be waiting him out for the next election. That is what really worries me.

[L. Coyote]

7. The hack was before the release. Why the release came so late isn't entirely clear yet.

But hacked material was apparently in the hands of the hackers for several weeks. The hack attack has been ongoing for at least three weeks if not longer.

France Handles Election Related Hacking The Way The US Must In The Future

[mitch96]

2. This is a great template for the future

Load your email server with fake info the hacker can't figure out!!! Brill!!!
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"The plan was to sign on to the phishing pages and plant bogus information.
“You can flood these [phishing] addresses with multiple passwords and log-ins, true ones, false ones, so the people behind them use up a lot of time trying to figure them out,

[William Seger]

3. I used to do that to phishing sites

I had a script that would submit tens of thousands of random user names and passwords.

[Brother Buzz]

4. Shades of Midway?

"AF" was short on water.

[mitch96]

15. Classic!!!

BTW I loved the movie and how it explained how the 'AF' thing worked..
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[Brother Buzz]

17. John Ford's 1942 Oscar winning film 'The Battle of Midway' made NO mention of that 'AF' thingy

I wonder why?

[Baitball Blogger]

5. That is a long article.

Any chance you can quote the paragraphs of interest?

[duncang]

12. Not very long but here's the main part on what they did.

"Meanwhile, Wikileaks jumped on the document dump, but didn’t seem to be familiar with the material in it. Responding to the Macron statement that some of the items were bogus, Wikileaks tweeted, “We have not yet discovered fakes in #MacronLeaks & we are very skeptical that the Macron campaign is faster than us.”

Ah, but there’s the rub. As reported by The Daily Beast, part of the Macron campaign strategy against Fancy Bear (also known as Pawn Storm and Apt28) was to sign on to the phishing pages and plant bogus information.

“You can flood these [phishing] addresses with multiple passwords and log-ins, true ones, false ones, so the people behind them use up a lot of time trying to figure them out,” Mounir Mahjoubi, the head of Macron’s digital team, told The Daily Beast for its earlier article on this subject."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/05/06/did-macron-outsmart-campaign-hackers

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Ha! I see what I did.

I scrolled down so fast I didn't realize there was more than one article at the link.

Thanks! Sounds like Macron gave us the best political hack-back that we can use easily. No law about filling your own mailbox with bogus mail.

Fortunately, it sounds like this hack failed to achieve its purpose, but I stand by the fact that the French have more history lessons to remind them what happens when you or the neighboring country ends up with a fast talking fascist leader.

[DetlefK]

6. Wikileaks confirms that some stolen office-files have cyrillic meta-data.

At the end of the article.

[dalton99a]

8. Figures.

[L. Coyote]

9. Trumpsters blaming the Russians?

Is this also false information planted in the leak to point guilt at someone not guilty. It is difficult to believe the Russian NSA would leave this evidence trail to one of their operatives in plain sight. The use of Russian Excel does not mean that the Russian government did this.

Why would Wikileaks want to implicate the Russians when Wikileaks now is the Russian? This stinks of Republicans and, in particular, alt-right Trumpsters.

Link to tweet

French Campaign Hack: Fake docs mixed with authentic ones.

[DetlefK]

11. Wikileaks isn't pro-Trump or pro-Russia per se. They are merely useful idiots.

Do you know how RT operates? They tell you exactly half the story: The half they need to push their narrative. The other half of the story gets ignored or denounced as fake news.

And that's exactly how Russia uses Wikileaks. Wikileaks mainly leaks from the US and Europe because of the language-barrier. But that means that effectively Wikileaks is spreading shit-tons of bad stuff about the US and Europe and virtually no bad stuff from e.g. Russia or China.

->
Wikileaks is painting a skewed picture of the world.
Wikileaks inadvertently only delivers you half the story.
And that makes them useful idiots to Russia.

[L. Coyote]

14. Wrong, Wikileaks is hosted in Moscow and Putin has control of it.

This is old news now.

[mitch96]

16. Ahh yes

Plausible deniability....
"see, we got skunked too!! We are legit!!"

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[Sancho]

10. I suggested many months ago when there was a demand for Hillary's emails...

that she should simply send over a cache of emails with a bunch of embedded fake emails. She could have claimed almost anything - including CTs, dirt on repubs, nutty accusations, and even pictures!

If they were hacked or public because of FOIA or because of an "investigation", then she simply says that there was a bunch of stuff there and if they wanted to know what was real, then let her lawyers and staff filter them.

[ThoughtCriminal]

18. Democrats need to consider some Honey-Pot strategies

Every potential 2020 candidate should consider they likelihood that Putin's henchmen will certainly taget them.

[mitch96]

19. It would be great if they got some dirt on the VP

I would even try to do back flips if that happened... Pence in bed with a hooker.. what a hoot!!
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