BE-related

[Paul Mackin]

Zeynep Tufekci (NYT) might well have have provided the info contained in a
Washington Post piece of a day ago to the effect that UMBRAGE material DOES
offer means to misattribute the source of a hack, but that the vast variety
of evidence pointing to Russia was overwhelming. I'll look for the piece.
For what it's worth.



On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 1:56 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:

>
> play sth down
> — phrasal verb with play uk *​* /pleɪ/ us *​* /pleɪ/ verb
> *​*
>
> *to make something seem less important or less bad than it really is: *
> Military spokespeople tried to play down the seriousness of the disaster
> ...
>
> http://dictionary.cambridge.org/de/worterbuch/englisch/play-sth-down
>
> (The NYC opinion piece does not even mention Project UMBRAGE.)
>
> Am 10.03.2017 um 20:13 schrieb Monte Davis:
>
> Foucault, Chomsky, and Fanon at the Council of Elrond:
> http://existentialcomics.com/comic/175
>
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 1:34 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> The related meme is that this Wiki dump was perfectly timed to support
>> Trump's claim that Obama tapped his wires.
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 11:12 AM Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> How about this from the NY Times:
>>>
>>> The media, to its credit, eventually sorts things out
>>> <https://www.wired.com/2017/03/wikileaks-cia-hack-signal-encrypted-chat-apps/> —
>>> as it has belatedly started to do with the supposed C.I.A. cache. But by
>>> then, the initial burst of misinformation has spread. On social media in
>>> particular, the spin and distortion continues unabated. This time around,
>>> for example, there are widespread claims on social media that these leaked
>>> documents show that it was the C.I.A. that hacked the Democratic National
>>> Committee, and that it framed Russia for the hack. (The documents in the
>>> cache reveal nothing of the sort.)
>>>
>>> https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/opinion/the-truth-about-t
>>> he-wikileaks-cia-cache.html?ref=opinion
>>>
>>> You have to read the whole thing to get her reasoning.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 10:46 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <
>>> lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Jamie: "Call me cynical, but I fail to see how any of this wikileaks
>>> dump is new or surprising information.Of course they are doing that. Have
>>> been for years ... "
>>>
>>> Let me reintroduce the emphasized part of my quote:
>>>
>>> > The CIA's Remote Devices Branch's UMBRAGE group collects and maintains
>>> a substantial library of attack techniques 'stolen' from malware produced
>>> in other states including the Russian Federation.
>>>
>>> With UMBRAGE and related projects the CIA cannot only increase its total
>>> number of attack types but also misdirect attribution by leaving behind the
>>> "fingerprints" of the groups that the attack techniques were stolen from. <
>>>
>>> So "Russian hacking" must in general be considered to be CIA hacking?
>>> Well, that's OK with me, but ...
>>>
>>> Am 09.03.2017 um 17:25 schrieb Jamie Anderson:
>>>
>>> Call me cynical, but I fail to see how any of this wikileaks dump is new
>>> or surprising information. Of course they are doing that. Have been for
>>> years. What should my response be?
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 1:00 AM, pynchon-l-digest <
>>> owner-pynchon-l-digest at waste.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> pynchon-l-digest      Wednesday, March 8 2017      Volume 02 : Number
>>> 13324
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> [none]
>>>
>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>
>>> Date:
>>> From:
>>> Subject: [none]
>>>
>>> '"Year Zero" introduces the scope and direction of the
>>> CIA's global covert hacking program, its malware arsenal
>>> and dozens of "zero day" weaponized exploits against a
>>> wide range of U.S. and European company products, include
>>> Apple's iPhone, Google's Android and Microsoft's Windows
>>> and even Samsung TVs, which are turned into covert
>>> microphones.'
>>>
>>> https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/
>>>
>>> The passphrase has some historical significance:
>>>
>>> SplinterItIntoAThousandPiecesAndScatterItIntoTheWinds
>>> -
>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l
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