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Murtaza Hussain
@mazmhussain
I have seen this claim, but do not find it to be a convincing explanation. When Russian intelligence hacked the Clinton campaign in 2016 they gave the raw data to Wikileaks which they knew would have no compunction about publishing it in full. A foreign state and especially Iran would be very unlikely to give such data to Politico or a similar DC Beltway news outlet as they do not publish raw intel and would also be highly likely to suppress the story anyways. My assessment is that this is likely a pressure campaign to ensure that the data is not published by characterizing it as emanating from a foreign state. That is separate question from whether it is newsworthy in general but I favor transparency and would like to see it and evaluate.
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vrypan |--o--|
@vrypan.eth
> Cheung declined to say whether the campaign had been in contact with Microsoft or law enforcement about the breach, saying it would not discuss such conversations. What do you make of this? The obvious response (to me) would be "yes, we notified the FBI as soon as we received the report from Microsoft", which would make a strong argument that the documents source is a hacker.
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Catch0x22
@catch0x22.eth
Leaves me dumbfounded how people can't fathom that this happens to every side. Won't be long til people are doing this to each other on a smaller scale over simple disputes.
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Samir 🎩
@0xsamir
There is another question for this! why IRAN this time not Russia or North Korea! there is always something about the timing of spreading the news or accusations
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Purp🇵🇸
@purp
Lol I think this is the most obvious take, It's a really good cover though
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Mike | Abundance
@abundance
The conspiracy theorist in me thinks there is a good chance the Trump campaign knew of some breach and decided to leak the data themselves relatively early to avoid an Oct/Nov surprise dump.
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Harpocryptes
@harpocryptes
Microsoft mentioned on Friday a hack with ties to Iran of a high ranking official in a presidential campaign. Supposing it's the same case, which seems likely, isn't that hard to square with the campaign making up the Iran connection?
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Mantej Rajpal 🇺🇸
@mantej.eth
That makes a lot of sense, appreciate your analysis! Curious to see if their campaign will cite any evidence aside from the single Microsoft report
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