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Daynab
Aug 5, 2008



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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Daynab
Aug 5, 2008

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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