July 06, 2017

The Undeniable Pattern Of Russian Hacking (Updated)

Updated below

A wide review of news sources finds an undeniable patter of international "Russian hacking" claims:

Many, if not all such accusation, are based on say-so by some anonymous "official" or self-promoting "expert".

Many, if not all such accusation, are rebutted within a few days or weeks.

News about any alleged "Russian hacking" is widely distributed and easy to find.

News of the debunking of such claims is reported only sparsely (if at all) and more difficult to retrieve.



Source: Jeff Darcy, Cleveland.com - bigger

Examples:

Ukraine

United States

Germany

Sicherheitskreise: Russland hackte geheime Bundestagsakten (Russia hacked secret parliament papers), FAZ - Dec 11 2016

Quelle für Enthüllungen im Bundestag vermutet (Internal source suspected in parliament leaks), FAZ - Dec 17 2016

Germany

France

Qatar

United Kingdom

The undeniable patter of "Russian hacking" is that any claim thereof is likely not true and will be debunked in due time.

These remarks on the "Russian hacking" allegation in relation to the U.S. election are therefore quite appropriate:

President Trump again cast a skeptical eye on intelligence community assessments that Russia interfered with the 2016 presidential election, saying Thursday while on a visit to Poland that "nobody really knows for sure" what happened.

...

Trump also compared the intelligence about Russian interference with the faulty assessment that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in 2002, which provided President Bush with a justification to go to war. "Guess what, they were wrong, and that led to one big mess," he said.

Update (June 7 3:00am Est):

To frame today's Trump-Putin talks at the G20 meeting in Hamburg (and to prove the above, timely post correct?) U.S. media issued three new story today implicating "Russian hacking". The stories are made up of rumors, fearmongering and of reports of banal phishing attempts on some administrative systems. While all three implicate Russia they naturally contain ZERO evidence to anything related to that country.

In the very likely case that the above described pattern of "Russian hacking" holds, all three stories will be debunked within the next few days or weeks.

Posted by b on July 6, 2017 at 13:35 UTC | Permalink

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