2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumGuccifer is freaking insane, full stop.
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He took the axe to his laptop and phone, a scene he would later describe to me, in vivid detail, from prison. "It was a special laptop which was passed to me by a French intelligence connection, who had it from the Pentagon."
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He drifts back into conspiracy, this time with a touch of antisemitism: Wherever I investigate I find Jews and freemasons in the highest circles. Ive hit upon secrets in the attempt to unmask the society of the enlightened.
https://pando.com/2015/03/20/exclusive-interview-jailed-hacker-guccifer-boasts-i-used-to-read-hillarys-memos-for-six-seven-hours-and-then-do-the-gardening/
Just thought I'd pass that along.
KingFlorez
(12,689 posts)He is a very ill person. None of that makes any sense.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)This is a common problem with special category detainees. Just look at the before and after pictures of KSM.
w4rma
(31,700 posts)followed Hillary's e-mails back to her private server and hacked it, too. Especially during the period of time that her server was, quite possibly, unmanaged by anyone.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guccifer#Hacking_of_politicians.27_accounts_2
You have to be a bit crazy to even bother with doing these things for no real personal gain.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Yes, that is a "stretch".
pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)Don't have to be a genius.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)uponit7771
(90,378 posts)... or dictionary to get into someones account.
In this case it was a lucky guess
metroins
(2,550 posts)It has been the fastest growing methodology in recent times.
headonshoulder
(17 posts)w4rma
(31,700 posts)One example of social engineering is an individual who walks into a building and posts an official-looking announcement to the company bulletin that says the number for the help desk has changed. So, when employees call for help the individual asks them for their passwords and IDs thereby gaining the ability to access the company's private information. Another example of social engineering would be that the hacker contacts the target on a social networking site and starts a conversation with the target. Slowly and gradually, the hacker gains trust of the target and then uses it to get access to sensitive information like password or bank account details.
Other types
Common confidence tricksters or fraudsters also could be considered "social engineers" in the wider sense, in that they deliberately deceive and manipulate people, exploiting human weaknesses to obtain personal benefit. They may, for example, use social engineering techniques as part of an IT fraud.
A very recent type of social engineering technique includes spoofing or hacking IDs of people having popular e-mail IDs such as Yahoo!, Gmail, Hotmail, etc. Among the many motivations for deception are:
Phishing credit-card account numbers and their passwords.
Cracking private e-mails and chat histories, and manipulating them by using common editing techniques before using them to extort money and creating distrust among individuals.
Cracking websites of companies or organizations and destroying their reputation.
Computer virus hoaxes
Convincing users to run malicious code within the web browser via self-XSS attack to allow access to their web account
Source
uponit7771
(90,378 posts)bobbobbins01
(1,681 posts)maybe he's talking about this: http://cryptome.org/2013/06/guccifer-rockefeller.pdf
Apparently he did hack the Rockefellers but I'd hardly call that a secret journal.
CentralCoaster
(1,163 posts)bobbobbins01
(1,681 posts)but nothing I'd say is a secret journal...there is a dump of a lot of the stuff he hacked here:
http://cryptome.org/2014/01/guccifer-cryptome.htm
TM99
(8,352 posts)are 'insane' but it doesn't mean that they can't do what they do.
We already have proof he hacked Blumenthal.
yodermon
(6,143 posts)His latest claims could be more delusions though.
and they could not.
Presumably they will corroborate any spoken testimony with actual evidence in the ongoing investigation.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)Highly intelligent people with little to no outlets for their talents and who work far below their capabilities can and often do go what lay people call insane.
This doesn't mean he didn't hack Hillary's emails. It doesn't mean he has no moments of lucidity. He can still have moments where he breaks from reality and still be a very competent "hacker" researcher who just wants to have fun reading stuff he isn't supposed to.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)was he able to hack into her computer? The state of his mind is not the problem.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)My theory is more intelligent people are more likely to be insane under certain conditions. It looks like he met those.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)pretty hair brained theories at times but it is more that he is over thinking issues than that he is ignorant of them. IF he wanted to he could be a very good hacker and somehow fold it all into the whole.
Kalidurga
(14,177 posts)For example if I knew someone was a huge Elton John fan I would try names of his songs or his name eventually that would probably work. There are other ways of course.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Yeah...let's believe him.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)Peace Patriot
(24,010 posts)Last edited Thu May 5, 2016, 01:52 PM - Edit history (1)
People can fake being crazy, you know. And people can be crazy and still be good hackers.
I read the whole article, and favor the latter--a bit crazy, but a lot of it is just talk to get a rise out of his listener; more "chip on his shoulder" than crazy, I think, being as smart as he is and not getting anywhere in life, except his fame for clever and personally pointless hacking (not after money; no political agenda that I can discern, but ego boost from fame). And a good hacker except he got caught, so not that good. He's a character, for sure.
I've met guys like him--too rebellious for school, limited education, but smart (this guy learned three languages on his own, as well as methodical information research, computers and hacking), casually racist in a way that is more "chip on his shoulder" than real hatred, and tending toward conspiracies that sound nutty but that mask the real conspiracies of the rich against the poor, that have left someone this smart guy out of the "global economy" because he was too poor to get the help that he needed when he was young (whether psychological, or counseling, or a good, creative alternative school for rebels--the kind that rich kids are sent to, when they mess up) or because his country is too exploited and oppressed to provide jobs for talented (if eccentric) people.
Guccifer is not a criminal type, from what I can glean from this article. Nor are the other guys I've met who are much like him. They've just been left out and can't find a way to express that except in wild talk about pretty stale conspiracy theories.
I leave it to the FBI to sort him out. They're the ones who extradited him and they must have their reasons.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)nolawarlock
(1,729 posts)Really????
That's a conspiracy theory that just keeps getting more and more ridiculous. The so-called Illuminati started out as an anti-semitic conspiracy theory about rich, Jewish families like the Rothschilds controlling the word and manipulated by Satan himself. Now, it's devolved from that into a racist and considerably diminished conspiracy theory where the entire music industry is controlled by Jay-Z and Beyonce. How far the mighty and imaginary Illuminati have fallen.
For Guccifer to bring the Illuminati into this demolishes his credibility entirely.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)unc70
(6,130 posts)The minimum thing they need him for us to establish the basis for the Blumenthal emails. It is through those emails that the Clinton server was revealed. That sequence is important for establishing probable cause for further criminal investigations.
Maru Kitteh
(28,350 posts)pdsimdars
(6,007 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,350 posts)the secret Illuminati key to Bigfoot's gym locker?
okie-dokie then.
baldguy
(36,649 posts)The more unsubstantiated & insane, the better. Just as long as it harms Clinton or the Democratic Party.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Let all the anti-Clinton people wrap their arms around this scum. Jews and freemasons? Yeah, just the guy I want to have in my corner.
grossproffit
(5,591 posts)riversedge
(70,482 posts)Vinca
(50,342 posts)If he produces the goods, nuts or not, it won't be a positive thing for the general election.
Tarc
(10,478 posts)I said last night that this thing was going to blow up on the Sanders camp like the Killian Documents torpedoed Dan Rather. Looks like this was the first eruption.
wyldwolf
(43,874 posts)Bernie followers, though, are eager to lap it up.
wyldwolf
(43,874 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Yet his ravings will be considered the highest of standards if it serves a political bias well.
Freemasons-- there it is.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)and the DU Jonny Joozdidit Brigade. Evoking the Sooper Seekrit Jewish Bankster Cabal is like red meat for that sort. This article will only enhance their admiration for "Guccifer".