Common Sense Commentary: One of the most enlightening developments of the Internet age, of increasing knowledge flying around the world in billions of messages and other data, by everybody from Kings to Curmudgeons, is the stealthy work of hackers. It is usually impossible to know or find out, who these Internet haints or heroes are. There are political hackers on the left, on the right and hackers in the middle with agendas other than politics. These none idealist hackers are either tricksters, nutty nerds or crooks after your S.S. number. So the left blames it on the right and the right blames it on the left, but governments usually blame it on other governments they don't like most at the moment. One of the latest, most infamous hackers, is some Internet genius who calls himself "Guccifer 2.0". I don't know if that handle's play on the word "Lucifer" suggests he/she is a sibling of Lucifer or his opposite. The "Gucci" syllable may allude to the joker's intent to "goose" elitists in their rears with his exposure of their most secret words or actions. If no other good comes from these pesky, goosing tattletales, hackers and whistle blowers may force politicians, international corporations and famous elitists to moderate their secret criticisms of each other and stop mishandling vital and embarrassing information. Whistle blowers like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden are forcing powerful, political elitists to adjust their sloppy mishandling of vital, national security secrets. RB
Report from The Smoking Gun Newsletter 8-12-16
Hacker Publishes List Of Cell Phone Numbers, Private E-Mails For Most House Democrats
After disappearing for a couple of weeks, the hacker “Guccifer 2.0” returned late this afternoon to provide a new headache for Democrats.
In a post to his WordPress blog, the vandal--who previously provided nearly 20,000 Democratic National Committee e-mails to Wikileaks--uploaded an Excel file that includes the cell phone numbers and private e-mail addresses of nearly every Democratic member of the House of Representatives.
The Excel file also includes similar contact information for hundreds of congressional staff members (chiefs of staff, press secretaries, legislative directors, schedulers) and campaign personnel.
In announcing the leak of the document, “Guccifer 2.0” reported that the spreadsheet was stolen during a hack of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “As you see I wasn’t wasting my time! It was even easier than in the case of the DNC breach,” the hacker wrote.
Along with the Excel file, “Guccifer 2.0” also uploaded documents that included the account names and passwords for an assortment of subscription services used by the DCCC, from Lexis-Nexis to Glenn Beck’s web site (password: nutbag).
While “Guccifer 2.0” claims to be Romanian and an “unknown hacker with a laptop,” cybersecurity investigators have concluded that he is part of a Russian intelligence operation that has targeted the DNC, Hillary Clinton campaign staffers, and assorted Republicans, including John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Michele Bachmann.
In a message today, the hacker branded the U.S. presidential elections a “farce” that is “being settled behind the scenes as it was with Bernie Sanders.” He added, “I wonder what happened to the true democracy, to the equal opportunities, the things we love the United States for. The big money bags are fighting for power today. They are lying constantly and don’t keep their word. The MSM are producing tons of propaganda hiding the real stuff behind it. But I do believe that people have right to know what’s going on inside the election process in fact.”
“Guccifer 2.0” also invited reporters to contact him via Twitter direct message: “Dear journalists, you may send me a DM if you’re interested in exclusive materials from the DCCC, which I have plenty of.”
The FBI is investigating the DNC and DCCC hacks along with attempts to compromise the Gmail accounts of Clinton campaign staffers through the use of “spear phishing” e-mails (as detailed in a TSG story published this morning).
In a series of e-mail exchanges last month, "Guccifer 2.0" described himself as a committed "hacktivist" and bristled at TSG's portrayal of him as a thief. "Stop calling me the vandal," he wrote. "I'm not a criminal I'm a freedom fighter." While "Guccifer 2.0" claimed to be a foe of "all the illuminati and rich clans which try to rule the governments." Cyber investigators theorize that he may actually just be serving as the media liaison for the Russian government hacking teams suspected of breaching the Democratic Party's computer systems.
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Since the government's computer and Internet experts have no facts, as to who did this, they are forced to guess at it. The words "theorize" and "may" simply mean, "We don't know" who it is. RB
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