How Macron just changed cyber security forever

hackernoon.com

43 points·mthomas··6 comments

The main takeaway from the article:

Macron learned the lessons of the Hillary Clinton campaign, and immediately took control of the messaging and PR: Literally at the 11th hour, before the blackout would silence it, the Macron campaign issued a statement saying it had been hacked and many of the documents that were dumped on the American 4Chan site and re-posted by Wikileaks were fakes.

Actually for me the main takeaway is he ran a sophisticated counterintelligence campaign. Maybe.

The article defends the hypothesis that Macron's cybersec team deliberately seeded the Russians with false information so three could discredit it when it was released.

It was pretty hilarous that some of the fake PDFs were so sloppily done that they left the Photoshop layers in. https://twitter.com/luxphoton/status/860471510821109760

What was going on on 4chan was even more hilarious:

(sorry for buzzfeed link)

https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/heres-how-far-right-t...

So he's gay and sleeping with his wife's 30 year old daughter? Sounds like a can do guy to me!

Scanners commonly produce files with multiple layers as part of their OCR function. Layers are not proof of forgery. The same types of layers were present in Obama's birth certificate and the same faulty arguments were used when it came out.

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