cursichella1
30th August 2016, 09:21
This is one of those articles put out to intentionally mess with the Public on so many levels that it's hard to count them all. I'm posting for the sole purpose of pointing out to anyone new to it some examples of how subtly it's done. How seemingly innocuous "news" and breaking news articles can be written to mock, manipulate and deflect our emotions and opinions to include feelings of: happiness, despair, hopelessness, defeat, marginalization, victimization, disappointment, relief, worry, deflection, patriotism, "reasonable doubt", blame, hatred, safety and a new Cold War.
Mainstream news media has been compromised, but knowing that can empower us--by reading the news stories very carefully we uncover their game plan and their weaknesses. We will see exactly what they're up to.
This is what those behind this particular article hope to accomplish (Spoiler alert!):
-We will be drawn to the article with excitement and optimism as we anticipate news that something is finally being done about the obvious voter fraud in several of the State Presidential Primaries.
-We will be disappointed when we realize they did NOT uncover the Votes Counted As Fractions
(http://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-1/) or numerous other weaknesses that do exist in the election count software.
-We will be frustrated they didn't investigate the Exit Poll discrepancies nor the hundreds of thousands of ineligible votes lost in California.
-We will be confused by the technospeak of what it was they did uncover and will believe it to be too complex for us to look into ourselves.
-We will be angry because we realize nothing here will force a recount.
-We will realize that we will not see Hillary or any DNC "officials" go to prison (though I won't rule out a few more Arkancides...) making us feel powerless, victimized, voiceless.
-We will be manipulated into thinking that Russia is to blame. We will believe Putin plans to to pick our President.
-We will feel a surge in our patriotism and our hatred for Putin will build a foundation for another highly profitable New Cold War.
-We will forget the DNC is most likely who's to blame for the voter fraud in the Primaries because our focus is now on "those Russians". And that will become the "reasonable doubt" necessary to put the DNC Voter Fraud lawsuit to rest.
-We will read one innocent-looking Trump quotation that will make him and any of us who dares say the primaries were "rigged" out to be nutcases.
-We will fear being marginalized and will look to Hillary for some "normalcy". (And don't believe for a minute that Trump is in this to win. Up to this point, at least, he can be nothing more than controlled opposition. Trump is no dummy, yet any nitwit 8th Grade Class Presidential Candidate could pull off a smarter campaign than Trump has to date...)
Lastly, and this was just suggested to me by Avalon member MostDangerous (Kent Bain):
If evidence of election vulnerabilities/hacking is significant it would be give Obama a legitimate reason to stay in office.
Here's the article:
Reuters
POLITICS | Mon Aug 29, 2016 7:23pm EDT
FBI detects breaches against two state voter systems
By Dustin Volz and Jim Finkle | WASHINGTON
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has found breaches in Illinois and Arizona's voter registration databases and is urging states to increase computer security ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election, according to a U.S. official familiar with the probe.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Monday that investigators were also seeking evidence of whether other states may have been targeted.
The FBI warning in an Aug. 18 flash alert from the agency's Cyber Division did not identify the intruders or the two states targeted.
Reuters obtained a copy of the document after Yahoo News first reported the story Monday.
Accessing information in a voter database, much of which is publicly accessible, does not necessarily suggest an effort to manipulate the votes themselves. When registering, voters typically provide their names, home addresses, driver's license or identification numbers, and party affiliations.
But U.S. intelligence officials have become increasingly worried that hackers sponsored by Russia or other countries may attempt to disrupt the presidential election.
Officials and cyber security experts say recent breaches at the Democratic National Committee and elsewhere in the Democratic Party were likely carried out by people within the Russian government. Kremlin officials have denied that.
An FBI spokeswoman would not comment on the alerts but said the agency "routinely advises" on "various cyber threat indicators observed during the course of our investigations."
The intrusions come amid repeated unsubstantiated claims by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that the U.S. election system is "rigged."
Trump has cited emails leaked from the DNC that indicated the party leadership favored Hillary Clinton over rival candidate Bernie Sanders as reason to cast doubt on the electoral process in general.
'LARGER ATTACK'?
David Kennedy, chief executive officer of information security consulting company TrustedSec, said the attacks referenced in the FBI alert appeared to be largely exploratory and not especially sophisticated.
"It could be a precursor to a larger attack," he added.
Citing a state election board official, Yahoo News said the Illinois voter registration system was shut down for 10 days in late July after hackers downloaded personal data on up to 200,000 voters.
State voter systems are often targeted by hackers, and 200,000 is a relatively small number compared to other recent incidents. An independent computer security researcher uncovered in December of last year a database on 191 million voters that was exposed on the open Internet due to an incorrect configuration.
The Arizona attack was more limited and involved introducing malicious software into one state employee's computer, said Matt Roberts, communications director for the Arizona secretary of state's office.
That office publicly reported a cyber incident in June after being contacted by the FBI, which led to it temporarily shutting down its election site to deal with the potential threat.
Roberts said he was uncertain if the FBI advisory was in reference to that same June incident, during which investigators found no evidence of any data exfiltration. In that episode, the FBI told Arizona officials the hackers were believed to be Russian and described it as an "eight out of 10" on a threat severity scale, Roberts said.
Arizona will hold Republican and Democratic primaries for congressional races on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Dustin Volz and Jim Finkle; Additional reporting by John Walcott; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Alistair Bell)
Link to Original Article here (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-cybersecurity-idUSKCN1141L4)
Mainstream news media has been compromised, but knowing that can empower us--by reading the news stories very carefully we uncover their game plan and their weaknesses. We will see exactly what they're up to.
This is what those behind this particular article hope to accomplish (Spoiler alert!):
-We will be drawn to the article with excitement and optimism as we anticipate news that something is finally being done about the obvious voter fraud in several of the State Presidential Primaries.
-We will be disappointed when we realize they did NOT uncover the Votes Counted As Fractions
(http://blackboxvoting.org/fraction-magic-1/) or numerous other weaknesses that do exist in the election count software.
-We will be frustrated they didn't investigate the Exit Poll discrepancies nor the hundreds of thousands of ineligible votes lost in California.
-We will be confused by the technospeak of what it was they did uncover and will believe it to be too complex for us to look into ourselves.
-We will be angry because we realize nothing here will force a recount.
-We will realize that we will not see Hillary or any DNC "officials" go to prison (though I won't rule out a few more Arkancides...) making us feel powerless, victimized, voiceless.
-We will be manipulated into thinking that Russia is to blame. We will believe Putin plans to to pick our President.
-We will feel a surge in our patriotism and our hatred for Putin will build a foundation for another highly profitable New Cold War.
-We will forget the DNC is most likely who's to blame for the voter fraud in the Primaries because our focus is now on "those Russians". And that will become the "reasonable doubt" necessary to put the DNC Voter Fraud lawsuit to rest.
-We will read one innocent-looking Trump quotation that will make him and any of us who dares say the primaries were "rigged" out to be nutcases.
-We will fear being marginalized and will look to Hillary for some "normalcy". (And don't believe for a minute that Trump is in this to win. Up to this point, at least, he can be nothing more than controlled opposition. Trump is no dummy, yet any nitwit 8th Grade Class Presidential Candidate could pull off a smarter campaign than Trump has to date...)
Lastly, and this was just suggested to me by Avalon member MostDangerous (Kent Bain):
If evidence of election vulnerabilities/hacking is significant it would be give Obama a legitimate reason to stay in office.
Here's the article:
Reuters
POLITICS | Mon Aug 29, 2016 7:23pm EDT
FBI detects breaches against two state voter systems
By Dustin Volz and Jim Finkle | WASHINGTON
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has found breaches in Illinois and Arizona's voter registration databases and is urging states to increase computer security ahead of the Nov. 8 presidential election, according to a U.S. official familiar with the probe.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Monday that investigators were also seeking evidence of whether other states may have been targeted.
The FBI warning in an Aug. 18 flash alert from the agency's Cyber Division did not identify the intruders or the two states targeted.
Reuters obtained a copy of the document after Yahoo News first reported the story Monday.
Accessing information in a voter database, much of which is publicly accessible, does not necessarily suggest an effort to manipulate the votes themselves. When registering, voters typically provide their names, home addresses, driver's license or identification numbers, and party affiliations.
But U.S. intelligence officials have become increasingly worried that hackers sponsored by Russia or other countries may attempt to disrupt the presidential election.
Officials and cyber security experts say recent breaches at the Democratic National Committee and elsewhere in the Democratic Party were likely carried out by people within the Russian government. Kremlin officials have denied that.
An FBI spokeswoman would not comment on the alerts but said the agency "routinely advises" on "various cyber threat indicators observed during the course of our investigations."
The intrusions come amid repeated unsubstantiated claims by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that the U.S. election system is "rigged."
Trump has cited emails leaked from the DNC that indicated the party leadership favored Hillary Clinton over rival candidate Bernie Sanders as reason to cast doubt on the electoral process in general.
'LARGER ATTACK'?
David Kennedy, chief executive officer of information security consulting company TrustedSec, said the attacks referenced in the FBI alert appeared to be largely exploratory and not especially sophisticated.
"It could be a precursor to a larger attack," he added.
Citing a state election board official, Yahoo News said the Illinois voter registration system was shut down for 10 days in late July after hackers downloaded personal data on up to 200,000 voters.
State voter systems are often targeted by hackers, and 200,000 is a relatively small number compared to other recent incidents. An independent computer security researcher uncovered in December of last year a database on 191 million voters that was exposed on the open Internet due to an incorrect configuration.
The Arizona attack was more limited and involved introducing malicious software into one state employee's computer, said Matt Roberts, communications director for the Arizona secretary of state's office.
That office publicly reported a cyber incident in June after being contacted by the FBI, which led to it temporarily shutting down its election site to deal with the potential threat.
Roberts said he was uncertain if the FBI advisory was in reference to that same June incident, during which investigators found no evidence of any data exfiltration. In that episode, the FBI told Arizona officials the hackers were believed to be Russian and described it as an "eight out of 10" on a threat severity scale, Roberts said.
Arizona will hold Republican and Democratic primaries for congressional races on Tuesday.
(Reporting by Dustin Volz and Jim Finkle; Additional reporting by John Walcott; Editing by Lisa Von Ahn and Alistair Bell)
Link to Original Article here (http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-cybersecurity-idUSKCN1141L4)