Source for last week's "hacked Clinton audio" story was Russian influence op DCLeaks

[oberliner]

Thomas Rid ‏@RidT 9h9 hours ago City of London, London
Confirmed: source for last week's "hacked Clinton audio" story in NYT/Free Beacon was Russian influence op DCLeaks

"The email containing the audio file was one of more than 13K messages to and from Mellul's personal Gmail account"

https://twitter.com/RidT

This is insane.

[Loki Liesmith]

1. really like to know what State is doing about this.

[tammywammy]

2. The State Dept would have no power over a personal gmail account.

[Loki Liesmith]

7. Yes. But I'd like to see more education

On security for employees.

[Foggyhill]

3. This is basically a targetted phishing attack.

Find out who works there, do some research on them, work, fb, twitter, google them,
create a plausible hook email with a forged header, send it out.
Sometimes, you do the same thing to many of their friends first so you can send an even more
effective email, facebook message, etc.

They probably try many different people. They only need one to respond.

[radius777]

4. This is warfare being waged by the Russians

and others against our democratic process.

After this election we must address this very serious problem.

Computers/internet are no longer a toy or novelty, but the primary means of communication for governments and businesses.

The integrity of our entire system is at risk, and it needs to be taken more seriously.

[Maru Kitteh]

10. agreed. this is more a threat to our security than fly-by games on the

open ocean w/ aircraft carriers, etc.

[joshcryer]

5. They live in their own bubble they thought that audio would hurt her.

But that audio actually improved where she stood, with empathy and caring.

Tells you the heart of these people releasing these leaks. They don't see empathy and caring because it doesn't exist in their sociopath souls.

[pnwmom]

6. It shows how good Hillary is, if this is the only kind of stuff they can attack her with. n/t

[Mamajami]

8. I guess they don't really read through ALL the stuff they drop on Hillary. This helped her

with some millennials, I believe.

[JHB]

9. Donald never deals with trifling details, like...

...whether he's working for the red, white, and blue, or the white, blue and red...

[oberliner]

11. He definitely seems cozy with Putin and company

As do a lot of his surrogates.