Russia Is Suspected To Be Behind Breach of Federal Court Filing System (nytimes.com) 66
ole_timer shares a report from the New York Times: Investigators have uncovered evidence that Russia is at least partly responsible for a recent hack of the computer system that manages federal court documents, including highly sensitive records with information that could reveal sources and people charged with national security crimes, according to several people briefed on the breach. It is not clear what entity is responsible, whether an arm of Russian intelligence might be behind the intrusion or if other countries were also involved, which some of the people familiar with the matter described as a yearslong effort to infiltrate the system. Some of the searches included midlevel criminal cases in the New York City area and several other jurisdictions, with some cases involving people with Russian and Eastern European surnames.
Administrators with the court system recently informed Justice Department officials, clerks and chief judges in federal courts that "persistent and sophisticated cyber threat actors have recently compromised sealed records," according to an internal department memo reviewed by The New York Times. The administrators also advised those officials to quickly remove the most sensitive documents from the system. "This remains an URGENT MATTER that requires immediate action," officials wrote, referring to guidance that the Justice Department had issued in early 2021 after the system was first infiltrated. Documents related to criminal activity with an overseas tie, across at least eight district courts, were initially believed to have been targeted. Last month, the chief judges of district courts across the country were quietly warned to move those kinds of cases off the regular document-management system, according to officials briefed on the request. They were initially told not to discuss the matter with other judges in their districts.
Administrators with the court system recently informed Justice Department officials, clerks and chief judges in federal courts that "persistent and sophisticated cyber threat actors have recently compromised sealed records," according to an internal department memo reviewed by The New York Times. The administrators also advised those officials to quickly remove the most sensitive documents from the system. "This remains an URGENT MATTER that requires immediate action," officials wrote, referring to guidance that the Justice Department had issued in early 2021 after the system was first infiltrated. Documents related to criminal activity with an overseas tie, across at least eight district courts, were initially believed to have been targeted. Last month, the chief judges of district courts across the country were quietly warned to move those kinds of cases off the regular document-management system, according to officials briefed on the request. They were initially told not to discuss the matter with other judges in their districts.
I Partially Suspect (Score:2, Troll)
Suspect? Partially responsible? That's a damning indictment, right there.
Should we warm up the nuclear missiles? Will the Secretary of State say a single word about it?
That they printed this story is just ridiculous. What's next UFO spotted in Omaha?
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I won't be surprised to hear the following exchange, after the meeting - Putin's played Trump like a fiddle before, after all.
Reporter: "Mr. President, who was responsible for starting the Ukraine war?"
Trump: "President Putin says it's not Russia. I don't see any reason why it would be."
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That would be hilarious if it wasn't such a familiar story.
Re:I Partially Suspect (Score:5, Insightful)
My worry is that we end up with the type of "peace talks" we got when Trump sent Kushner over to Israel to broker peace between them and the Palestinians. What we got was a farce of a treaty that only aggravated tensions as the Palestinians weren't even allowed to be present during the treaty's crafting. Just like Ukraine is being kept out of these talks.
Basically, my money is on them settling up conditions that aren't even close to being something Ukraine could accept and then Trump getting angry and blaming Ukraine for not accepting his brilliance on the matter.
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Russia's economy, hasn't been, but is now in trouble. And India has quietly been decreasing oil imports from Russia. Lower discounts and sanctions from the EU and the US on India are effective.
That is my interpretation, anyway.
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Russia has no reason to stop its offensive now, there is absolutely nothing that Rump can offer which would outweigh the advantages of continuing the offensive in Ukraine. They have very clearly laid out what it would take for them to consider stopping, and the terms are unacceptable to either the US or the Ukrainian government. (On the other hand, 69% of the Ukrainian public wants peace now at any cost, but who cares about those people? /s)
Re:I Partially Suspect (Score:5, Informative)
On the other hand, 69% of the Ukrainian public wants peace now at any cost, but who cares about those people?
No they don't, not "at any cost". The correct quote is:
In Gallup’s most recent poll of Ukraine — conducted in early July — 69% say they favor a negotiated end to the war as soon as possible, compared with 24% who support continuing to fight until victory.
They are being worn down but know from past history that to give the Russians control of Ukraine is a death sentence for the entire population. Giving up land aside they are going to need something like Nato membership or foreign peacekeepers on the front lines before they agree to anything as Russian promises have a proven history of being meaningless unless backed up by massive force.
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Pedophile with 34 felonies meets international war criminal on US soil.
Didn't you hear? Trump said [jwplayer.com] he was meeting Putin in Russia.
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Freudian slip. He's leasing Alaska to Russia.
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https://www.dailykos.com/stori... [dailykos.com]
On the fourth and final sexual encounter with the Defendant, Donald J. Trump, the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson, was tied to a bed by Defendant Trump who then proceeded to forcibly rape Plaintiff Johnson. During the course of this savage sexual attack, Plaintiff Johnson loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to "please wear a condom". Defendant Trump responded by violently striking Plaintiff Johnson in the face with his open hand and screaming that "he would do whatever he wanted" a
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I sincerely hope you keep trying that stuff.
You've accomplished nothing with it, except to make yourself look stupid and partisan.
Oh, and to get two terms of Trump. Congrats :)
Re: I Partially Suspect (Score:2)
Leaning on the Epstein files has Trump panicking, and clowns like you defending him because maggots love pedos.
Nobody is going to stop now.
Re: I Partially Suspect (Score:2)
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I'm no fan of trump but there's nothing in that controversy that will hurt Trump. Trump has never been a top name in the story.
Trump has always been a top name in the story, because it's always been believed that nobody appears in the files more than Epstein himself. It's not clear why you would lie about that unless you're a maggot who loves pedos.
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I see ... so Biden's, er, necromancers, string pullers, whatever - had all this evidence of real crimes by Trump and ... didn't use it? Yeah, that's logical.
Anyway, I was serious, I sincerely hope you do keep frothing at the mouth. Normies saw and heard, and normies voted. By all means, carry on :)
Re: I Partially Suspect (Score:2)
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Didn't you get the memo? Anything bad that happens is now required to be blamed on either Russia, China or Iran. There are no other bad guys left in the world, apparently.
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Mod parent funny for weak values of funny?
Epstein files (Score:1)
They want to see the Epstein files too
Russia gets by... (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Russia gets by... (Score:5, Insightful)
Flamebait? Really? Surely you forgot when Trump ordered all federal agencies to leave Russian cyber incidents alone. And then when Doge went into National Labor Relations Board and installed a bunch of back door accounts for themselves which almost immediately started to see login attempts on those accounts? The logins were ultimately blocked, but it's impossible to say Russian hackers didn't find their way in through the ineptness of DOGE.
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Just because your life's a mess and you have to blame Russia for it doesn't make the evidence they found go away.
You didn't get the joke, right? (Score:2)
Hillary Clinton is just a silly political dinosaur who thought that we were still living in the Cold War era and that mentioning 'Russia' would make Americans fearful enough to vote for her instead of Trump.
Everybody knows the Russians didn't have anything to do with her poor election performance.
She would blame the aliens from Area51 if she thought it would help.
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Close, but no cigar.
Hilary Clinton thought that Trump would be the same kind of token opponent she had Lincoln Chaffee be during the Democratic primaries.
Yes, there was that other fellow, but he sold out the day the convention started so that doesn't count.
Clinton and the Neoliberals honestly believed that most people would not be stupid enough to vote for Trump.
She was proven wrong, and our nation's downhill slide accelerated.
No way. We don't investigate Russia anymore (Score:5, Informative)
Russia is our friend now. In fact, Trump ordered all federal agencies to no longer investigate any Russian cyber security incidents. Sounds great!
Re:No way. We don't investigate Russia anymore (Score:5, Insightful)
https://www.theguardian.com/us... [theguardian.com]
A recent memo at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (Cisa) set out new priorities for the agency, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security and monitors cyber threats against US critical infrastructure. The new directive set out priorities that included China and protecting local systems. It did not mention Russia.
A person familiar with the matter who spoke to the Guardian on the condition of anonymity said analysts at the agency were verbally informed that they were not to follow or report on Russian threats, even though this had previously been a main focus for the agency.
The person said work that was being done on something “Russia-related” was in effect “nixed”.
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Oh, yes, an anonymous source. Very definitive! I'm convinced! /s
Re:No way. We don't investigate Russia anymore (Score:5, Informative)
When it is The Guardian doing the reporting, I'm convinced. If you think they are on par with US "news" or facebook etc. then you have less grasp of nuance than a millennial.
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A single off-the-record anonymous source should never be "convincing". The Guardian also said at different times that Israel was not committing atrocities in Gaza and that there's no genocide happening there. They claimed that Assad used nerve gasses against his own supporters, that the KLA were not smuggling opiates, and a shitload of other things that were false. Are they better than the NYT or WaPo? Sure, but that's not hard.
Re:No way. We don't investigate Russia anymore (Score:4, Interesting)
This is proper journalism, not a courtroom and done by a credible professional source. You think THEY don't know who the anonymous source is and how credible they are?
That said, they are not immune from CIA and other spies trying to fool and influence them and mistakes will be made by humans doing anything. You take a gold standard top level newspaper and cherry pick some hindsight flaws as if it discredits everything the entire organization does. Killing nuance and reasonable common sense is so Russian. I suppose you're also one of those dismissing global warming for lack of consensus.
Ever wonder if you are one of the average people Carlin refers to? He never really attacked the average people who made up a chunk of his fanbase; it's vague so you never think of yourself as one of those people... Sure he insults the slow ones; but the huge middle of the bell curve is left alone.
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Try this: Everyone who could read the preliminary and progress reports of the inspectors in Iraq knew that there were no WMD in Iraq. Everyone who knew anything about the Al Qaeda knew that rather than being supported by Iraq they were attacking them. And yet the Guardian parroted the talking points in the run-up to the war, the same as the rest of the herd of the press corpse (spelling intentional).
Oh, and relying on a single off the record anonymous source is not doing "proper journalism" by any stretc
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AGAIN, citing 1 mistake in time is not proof; only proof of 100% perfection against a major USA propaganda push where they were actually had the CIA influence everybody necessary. There was a rather HUGE story about the CIA man who found the WMD saying he found nothing and who had his life and his undercover wife's life ruined (and outed a whole location of people) because 1 man refused to just be a CIA tool for a sham war.
The Guardian went against the war way ahead of most everybody else. Remember WikiLe
That remove sensitive files thing sounds ominous (Score:2)
That "remove sensitive files from the system" thing sounds ominous. I hope they put them back. For historical records and so on. Yes, I know offline distributed multi-key file validation exists. still ... *puts on tinfoil hat*.
The Netherlands has the same story (Score:2)
Documents related to criminal activity with an... (Score:2)
...overseas tie.
Well, then, it's not just about the 'war'.
Which, BTW, must end soon. Enough deaths just to give in. Zelenskyy cannot win anything in this unless everyone else looses.
Don't you mean...? (Score:2)
Don't you mean: "THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!" ...?
New Knowledge type nonsense.. (Score:1)
we're just supposed to trust the people who have been LYING FOR DECADES to us?
No.. F@ck off.