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Oh noes. So horrible that there are no other ways this can be disseminated and I am SURE the organizers aren't looking into those at all.
I guess the more interesting question is.. is this putin or is it just a black hat for hire working out of russia?
I have good money on it being a "friend" of Pooty-Poot's who wants to squash resistance to ICE. Possibly someone who's in a position of power. Possibly someone who's a demented rapist felon and a pathological liar.
It's insane to me how little this narrows it down to someone who doesn't already know who you mean.
Does Putin want fascism or civil war in the US?
Yes
Trying to get into the mind of a deranged fascist is a futile effort at the best of times.
But my speculation? He understands that trump is a real shit asset. Way too impulsive and he is rapidly reaching the point where even video of him sucking off bill clinton won't make a difference (and, thus, won't be a threat). And putin is competing with all the other people pulling trump's strings who don't need to get on a plane to intimidate him.
So either way works. The point is to negate the US as a threat (either by turning us into an ally or letting us murder each other) and, as a result, negate NATO as a threat. Because most of NATO aren't fucking lunatics who put a massive percentage of one of the largest GPDs in the world into a standing military. WE were the army of NATO. And... yeah.
I was thinking something like if he wants fascism, then helping prevent this doxing makes sense. If he wants civil war, then do nothing and let the list get out.
If they were interested in actually distributing this they would have just sent a CSV file of the entire list out and the whole list would be floating around social media already. This is a fucking scam.
I’m no expert, but I can think of a few reasons: maintaining an official signed source, data integrity, and complying with takedown regulations:
Your Responsibilities as a Whistleblower
High risk along with public identification means the leaker probably wants to comply as much as possible to state and federal law. From the article:
Yeah it totally makes sense to make a resource that is totally inaccessible and doesn't actually exist.
Well, it’s inaccessible because Russian state-sponsored hacking collective is DDoSing the leaker’s website. Why would someone go through the risky process of leaking sensitive federal data that doesn’t actually exist?
I suppose it could be to spook ICE into withdrawal, but I don’t think that’s going to stop them given the tenacity of their extremely broad mandate and excessive deployments.
Or, it could be to goad Russian state actors into a honeypot to uncover their state affiliations, but they are generally insulated from that as a matter of Russian operating procedure.
I don’t see a possible benefit to faking this list. Could you provide an example?
To gather up a list of thousands of leftists who tried to access it without a VPN or TOR?
That’s a great example, and it probably falls under retaliation protections which I would not expect the US government to uphold at this time. So, anyone trying to access this website should definitely use TOR.
However, the fact that a Russian state actor is successfully attempting to limit access is pretty telling that they and the Trump administration don’t want this information leaked. My guess is that they know this information not only exists, but is dangerous to their interests.
I'm sure sending out a list with none of the associated verification information wouldn't have any weaknesses to manipulation or falsification...
Good point. Making a list that no one can access and probably doesn't actually exist is much better.
You’re not wrong, on the ice list sure they’re harping hard for donations and coffee money. Just release the files ffs. Ha now that sounds familiar.