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0 pointscwkoss7y ago0 comments

I think a more plausible theory is that the 'cybersecurity industrial complex' has a vested interest in general increases in cybersecurity spending. DNC had an interest in distracting from the previous HRC email leak.

Guccifer2.0 didn't really leak anything damning - so perhap this 'leak' was a red herring. DNC insiders could have performed the 'hack' and fabricated the evidence of attribution, then perform the 'leaking' themselves. DNC gets a distraction and makes opponent look friendly w/ foreign power, Crowdstrike gets more revenue from increased paranoia.

Probably incorrect... but more plausible.

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tptacek7y ago

Your theory is that, in the middle of an election, after there already being an email scandal, the DNC faked another one, and then got Crowdstrike and the United States intelligence community to go along with it? That's more plausible than... what?

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