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Comment by igivanov | Hacker News Reader

For what it is worth, let me quote someone's reddit comment:

>"So many 'slip-ups' pointing to Russia from this guy.. you could be forgiven for thinking he's not Russian, and was in fact created by the DNC.

>He CHOSE to name his computer account after the founder of the Soviet Secret Police.

>He CHOSE to create/open and then save documents so the Russian name was written to metadata.

>He CHOSE to use a Russian VPN service to cloak his IP address.

>He CHOSE to use public web-based email services that would forward his cloaked IP.

>He CHOSE to use the above to contact various media outlets on the same day.

>Odd behaviour for an elite hacker.

>Also, still today, none of his claims of hacking can be verified."

https://www.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/86gglv/lone_dnc_...

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The reason may actually be that Russia always wanted to be caught. They never thought Trump would win–the prize they were aiming for was general distrust of the election's integrity.

It's very similar to Russia's choice to poison Litvienko with Polonium–an unnatural radioactive element that can easily be traced back to the reactor where it originated. And, similarly, the very recent chemical weapons attack in the UK, using a nerve agent only ever produced by Russia.

In fairness, the UK came close to not detecting the Polonium (it was just luck they had the right someone on the team) and they weren't sure Russia could have known the UK was actually capable of detecting it.

To play devil's advocate...

If the DNC were responsible for their own 'hack':

They CHOSE to release embarrassing and damaging information right before a major election, in case they lost, so they would have an excuse if it happened?

And the DNC is so competent at information security that they were able to deceive 17 (or whatever the number is) government agencies and several independent researchers?

How about this for something more realistic:

WL announces it's going to publish DNC emails. This alerts DNC to leak/hack. DNC decides to get in front of it by playing the whole thing as a Russian op, especially potent as Trump is campaigning on softening stance with Russia. Notice that the first thing G2.0 leaked from the DNC was oppo on Trump.

By the time Wikileaks publishes (without all these Russian fingerprints), "Guccifer" has already carried out the misdirection.

Whole op could be a gambit by the DNC to set the discourse before the content of the emails gets picked up.

Odd behaviour?

Just a few months ago Russians send a government airplane (like Secret Service government) to pick up a load of cocaine in Argentina.

A few years ago they've send an AA to Ukraine and downed MH-17.

They're definitely not superheroes.

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