But while Profexer’s online persona vanished, a flesh-and-blood person has emerged: a fearful man who the Ukrainian police said turned himself in early this year, and has now become a witness for the F.B.I.

There is no evidence that Profexer worked, at least knowingly, for Russia’s intelligence services, but his malware apparently did.

That a hacking operation that Washington is convinced was orchestrated by Moscow would obtain malware from a source in Ukraine — perhaps the Kremlin’s most bitter enemy — sheds considerable light on the Russian security services’ modus operandi in what Western intelligence agencies say is their clandestine cyberwar against the United States and Europe.

It does not suggest a compact team of government employees who write all their own code and carry out attacks during office hours in Moscow or St. Petersburg, but rather a far looser enterprise that draws on talent and hacking tools wherever they can be found.

Also emerging from Ukraine is a sharper picture of what the United States believes is a Russian government hacking group known as Advanced Persistent Threat 28 or Fancy Bear. It is this group, which American intelligence agencies believe is operated by Russian military intelligence, that has been blamed, along with a second Russian outfit known as Cozy Bear, for the D.N.C. intrusion.

Bill McNeal wrote:Speaking of chester county, here is a cool screen shot.


Bunny Welsh is our sheriff!

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:Hope Hicks to be named new communications director

td11 wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:Speaking of chester county, here is a cool screen shot.


Bunny Welsh is our sheriff!

Feel like more ppl are realizing how deeply ingrained and institutionalized white supremacy is in America

td11 wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:Speaking of chester county, here is a cool screen shot.


Bunny Welsh is our sheriff!

Feel like more ppl are realizing how deeply ingrained and institutionalized white supremacy is in America

CalvinBall wrote:The off-topic board on the Virginia Tech message board I visit is brutal. There are mostly some great, level headed progressives. However, there are a few that soak up everything Soros and Obama is communist and on and on. One recently shared a story about that murder in West Chester where the one awful man with a long history of violence killed his neighbor. The story immediately starts with the descriptor that the murderer is a well-known anti-Trump. Confirmation that Obama started the race war. You just can't even reason with people who latch on to lies to confirm their terrible beliefs. It is so incredibly disheartening.

Soren wrote:side note I would be in jail for assault if I still worked for the job where the helpdesk guy talked about shit like "ninja tag"

Phred wrote:

Soren wrote:side note I would be in jail for assault if I still worked for the job where the helpdesk guy talked about shit like "ninja tag"

What's "ninja tag"?

Bill McNeal wrote:
I definitely am. I was raised to just treat everyone the same and as I've grown up gotten married, joined the workforce and had kids I've continued that and taught my kids that. I've run into people who are racist/bigots/whatever and just basically considered them relics. I've started to see the broader systemic hatred though as I've gotten older and seen how it affects people and how it's not so overt a lot of times but just ingrained in the way organizations work. It's horrible.

Phred wrote:

Soren wrote:side note I would be in jail for assault if I still worked for the job where the helpdesk guy talked about shit like "ninja tag"

What's "ninja tag"?

Soren wrote:

Phred wrote:

Soren wrote:side note I would be in jail for assault if I still worked for the job where the helpdesk guy talked about shit like "ninja tag"

What's "ninja tag"?

If you see a woman wearing a niqab you take a picture, send it to your friends and let them know they've been "ninja tagged." Now they have to find a woman in a niqab and send you a picture back or else it's their turn to pick the corn out of the grand dragon's shit or whatever the fuck those subhumans do in their spare time.

RichmondPhilsFan wrote:

CalvinBall wrote:The off-topic board on the Virginia Tech message board I visit is brutal. There are mostly some great, level headed progressives. However, there are a few that soak up everything Soros and Obama is communist and on and on. One recently shared a story about that murder in West Chester where the one awful man with a long history of violence killed his neighbor. The story immediately starts with the descriptor that the murderer is a well-known anti-Trump. Confirmation that Obama started the race war. You just can't even reason with people who latch on to lies to confirm their terrible beliefs. It is so incredibly disheartening.

TSL? Yeah, I can't even imagine how bad it is at this point. Even on the Sabre, they had to spin off a politics-only OT board a few years back and hide the URL, and that's with UVA alumni, who tend to trend more liberal than most Virginians.