If The Russians Engineered a Trump Victory

[Galen]

(06-14-2017, 01:54 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(06-13-2017, 02:21 AM)Galen Wrote:

(06-11-2017, 05:37 AM)David Horn Wrote: Yeah, except for all the techical stuff.  I doubt the DNC has access to hackers with the inside knowledge of Russian hacks ... unless you're arguing that the DNC was in cahoots with the Russians, not Trump.  Of course, that's in Mueller's .hands now, so wait 18 months or so and find out.

It is more likely that a Bernie supporter in the DNC pulled the information and had it released.  While Putin did express a preference for Trump that doesn't prove that it was the Russians.  As the recently release CIA hacking tools demonstrate, it is possible to make a hacking effort look like it came from anywhere.

Sophisticated hacking tools leave unique traces that an organization like the NSA can find and decypher.  I doubt some flunky insider could pull that off.

Actually I would expect an insider to have much better odds since once you have access to the actual hardware the job gets much easier.  For the average desktop I would boot up something like Knoppix and mount the drive with using the noatime and ro options and then go fishing.  Store what I wanted on the encrypted USB stick that I booted Knoppix with and be done with it.  Unless someone was watching they would never know what happened.  The people who own the machine would never know so there is no reason to think the NSA would since nothing goes over the net and the filesystem never actually changes.