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 Bloomberg came out with a feature about Andrés Sepúlveda, a hacker who claims having a hand in rigging a half dozen elections in Latin America, including the most recent Mexican election. He tells a pretty detailed and crazy story about how much things are tampered with. This basically goes further than "movie hacking" and he claims that similar riggings are done all over the world including the U.S. http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-to-hack-an-election/ It's hard to bold stuff about it because the whole thing is holy poo poo scary and fascinating at the same time, I recommend taking some time and reading it. With a Karl Rove-esque associate he used everything like spying on opponent's phones and emails, installing malware in their offices, manipulating social media for propaganda and hacking websites with his team of hackers. Now he's in solitary confinement after multiple assassination attempts.
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Hey op could you come up with other sources on this? Sounds interesting but I would like more background.
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Apr 2, 2016 02:34
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Yeah this sounds super interesting but I'm literally finding nothing about it except the bloomberg article. It's a bit much to swallow with only that.
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A really interesting read, thanks fro posting.
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Apr 2, 2016 13:27
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The Bloomberg thing was the first time I've heard of him and it seems like all the other stories are just reposting the Bloomberg thing, but his spanish wikipedia page possibly has other sources? It was all written before this article. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caso_Andr%C3%A9s_Sep%C3%BAlveda Maybe if someone here speaks spanish they can shine light on it?
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Daynab posted:The Bloomberg thing was the first time I've heard of him and it seems like all the other stories are just reposting the Bloomberg thing, but his spanish wikipedia page possibly has other sources? It was all written before this article. https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caso_Andr%C3%A9s_Sep%C3%BAlveda The wikipedia page deals with a specific event. Supposedly Sepúlveda hacked FARC members' computers, while they were present at the Habana peace talks. It says he was acquitted of all charges once, due to a failure on the prosecutor's part, but a new investigation was later started. It's open ended. Seems like he used mostly social engineering, such as using the email address "farcpeacetalks@yahoo.com" and fake Facebook profiles, and straight out buying passwords from a third party, and some actual hacking.
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Apr 2, 2016 21:07
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Not surprised that the far-right in Venezuela would engage in election fraud while accusing the left of doing it. Good thing Venezuela has such a strong voting system to foil fascist manipulators like this guy.
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Borneo Jimmy posted:Not surprised that the far-right in Venezuela would engage in election fraud while accusing the left of doing it. Good thing Venezuela has such a strong voting system to foil fascist manipulators like this guy. Yeah it's pretty great that the PSUV lost the last elections.
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