The Russian bear behind the keyboard: Russian hack claims are absurd
I am about twenty four hours behind on debunking the "evidence" of
Russian hacking of the DNC because I have only just stopped laughing. I
was sent last night the "crowdstrike" report, paid for by the
Democratic National Committee, which is supposed to convince us. The New
York Times today made this "evidence" its front page story. It appears
from this document that, despite himself being a former extremely
competent KGB chief, Vladimir Putin has put Inspector Clouseau in charge of Russian security and left him to get on with it. The
Russian Bear has been the symbol of the country since the 16th century.
So we have to believe that the Russian security services set up top
secret hacking groups identifying themselves as "Cozy Bear" and "Fancy
Bear". Whereas no doubt the NSA fronts its hacking operations
by a group brilliantly disguised as "The Flaming Bald Eagles", GCHQ
doubtless hides behind "Three Lions on a Keyboard" and the French use
"Marianne Snoops".
What is more, the Russian disguised hackers work Moscow hours
and are directly traceable to Moscow IP addresses. This is plain and
obvious nonsense. If crowdstrike were tracing me just now they would
think I am in Denmark. Yesterday it was the Netherlands. I use Tunnel
Bear, one of scores of easily available VPN's and believe me, the
Russian FSB have much better resources. We are also supposed to
believe that Russia's hidden hacking operation uses the name of the
famous founder of the Communist Cheka, Felix Dzerzhinsky, as a marker
and an identify of "Guccifer2" (get the references - Russian oligarchs
and their Gucci bling and Lucifer) - to post pointless and vainglorious
boasts about its hacking operations, and in doing so accidentally leave
bits of Russian language script to be found.
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