Schneier on Russian Hacking - deconstructed

[Zenaan Harkness]

On Wed, Jan 18, 2017 at 07:25:59PM -0300, Juan wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jan 2017 01:16:38 -0500
> Steve Kinney <admin at pilobilus.net> wrote:
> 
> > On 01/17/2017 04:49 PM, Bruce Schneier wrote:
> > > 
> > >             CRYPTO-GRAM
> > > 
> > >          January 15, 2017
> > > 
> > 
> > > The Obama administration has been more public about its evidence in
> > > the DNC case, but it has not been entirely public.
> > 
> > To date I have seen many assertions, but nothing resembling evidence,
> > in support of the allegation that Russia "hacked" the DNC and released
> > damaging (but never disclaimed) DNC documents in an effort to
> > influence the Presidential election.
> 
> 
> 	But we can follow that line of evidence-free creative thought,
> 	or crass  propaganda, and see where it takes us.
> 
> 	Premise : stalin and putin 'influenced' the great USA
> 	democratic elections...and got trump elected. 
> 
> 	It must follow then  : trump is a russian spy on the russian
> 	payroll. Since the russians virtually put him in charge, he
> 	must owe them something.
> 
> 	Now, it's quite OK for left wing fascists to parrot pentagon
> 	propganda regarding 'russian hacking' or 'arab terrists'
> 	blowing up the WTC, and denounce any 'truther' as a lunatic
> 	conspiracy theorist,
> 
> 	But what really sets those people apart is that they have the
> 	divine right to treat their own evidence-free conspiracy
> 	theories or war propaganda as True Enlightened Science. 

"It's a crazy world out there" :D