How to hack an election

BonzaiDuck

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And? What do you infer or conclude from this? OK -- I'll look at the link, but my time is limited. The source is worth investigating for content.

Without exploring further, I would suggest that election processes are more carefully watched and administered north of the Mexican border.

COMING BACK. OK!

If he were 60 or 70 years old, I can imagine him working with certain people I've come to understand intimately -- people like Dave Phillips. And like either of Phillips' protégés (the second was a young man named Michael Townley . . . you do what research you want to further this understanding) -- like those protégés, Sepulveda fits like a glove. But he's only what? -- 31?

Here's something I find of interest:

“My job was to do actions of dirty war and psychological operations, black propaganda, rumors—the whole dark side of politics that nobody knows exists but everyone can see,”

I'd have to dredge up the document. It was one of the Clinton-era declassifications: A memo from Phillips as "Chief of the Western Hemisphere" in CIA to all the operatives in Chile, to use "psych__ operations, black propaganda" and "pull out all stops!" in the overthrow of Salvadore Allende.

That was another era. But it simply points up what I've been saying through the last several post-911 campaigns I've seen.

It's almost such bizarre topic, people either seem clueless or incredulous about it and unable to grasp your meaning. I'd say only part of that is a failure of an Individual-centric culture for people to be aware that they're simply part of various mass-psychologies. "I can't be fooled! I'm an individual!"

So when we hear arguments in recent days from Sean Spicer or Alice Stewart or Kellyann Conway and even Trump himself, they seem to be speaking to people who would find the topic hard to grasp, making an argument at such a low and silly level that it obscures the actual reality.
 
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FIVR

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Last year, based on anonymous sources, the Colombian media reported that Rendón was working for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Rendón calls the reports untrue. The campaign did approach him, he says, but he turned them down because he dislikes Trump. “To my knowledge we are not familiar with this individual,” says Trump’s spokeswoman, Hope Hicks. “I have never heard of him, and the same goes for other senior staff members.” But Rendón says he’s in talks with another leading U.S. presidential campaign—he wouldn’t say which—to begin working for it once the primaries wrap up and the general election begins.

I guess Trump tried to hire this guy, but couldn't because of his own rampant racism against latinos has put off so many. Fancy Bear and Guccifer... didn't have the same issues.


Every day, new evidence emerges that consistently points to Trump being much more than just a "useful idiot" to Putin. He is a Mole... and just wait. The CIA has much, much more to say about this.


When will the chants of "LOCK HIM UP!" start? Or maybe it should be "STRING HIM UP!"?
 

Blackjack200

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It's an interesting article, worth reading, but the headline is sensational. In my view, stealing/publishing emails and generating fake content, astroturfing, etc. is not "hacking" an election.
 

Genx87

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It is an interesting read. Would love to know how much the US paid him for his work.
 

FIVR

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It is an interesting read. Would love to know how much the US paid him for his work.

Way to not read the article, but still post and imply you did...although I should expect as much from a Trumpeter.

Fourth paragraph
"For eight years, Sepúlveda, now 31, says he traveled the continent rigging major political campaigns. With a budget of $600,000, the Peña Nieto job was by far his most complex."


And it continues later in the article.
" For $12,000 a month, a customer hired a crew that could hack smartphones, spoof and clone Web pages, and send mass e-mails and texts. The premium package, at $20,000 a month, also included a full range of digital interception, attack, decryption, and defense.

Money was no problem. At one point, Sepúlveda spent $50,000 on high-end Russian software that made quick work of tapping Apple, BlackBerry, and Android phones. He also splurged on the very best fake Twitter profiles; they’d been maintained for at least a year, giving them a patina of believability.


He was paid fairly well, however I believe his services will cost more when he gets released back on the market. Arguably, he is a bargain for any wannabe fascist dictator with a few hundred million dollars in assets.
 

1sikbITCH

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Way to not read the article, but still post and imply you did...although I should expect as much from a Trumpeter.

Fourth paragraph



And it continues later in the article.





He was paid fairly well, however I believe his services will cost more when he gets released back on the market. Arguably, he is a bargain for any wannabe fascist dictator with a few hundred million dollars in assets.

Well he told Trump to pound sand so he does have some morals.
 

rudder

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