There's No Evidence That Hillary Clinton Was "Targeted" by Russian Hackers, She Just Got Spam (HRC)
A new report from the Associated Press suggests Russian hackers deliberately attempted to infiltrate Hillary Clinton’s private email server, realizing the worst fears that critics of the server have held for months. But the story presents no evidence that any human being, Russian or otherwise, ever deliberately and knowingly attempted to hack into Clinton’s account. She just got spam, like all of us do.
The AP’s headline reads “Russia-linked hackers tried to access Clinton email.” From the article: "Russia-linked hackers tried at least five times to pry into Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email account while she was US secretary of state, emails released Wednesday show."
As the news trickled down to other outlets, it became even more alarming: Politico said “Hackers targeted Hillary Clinton’s email account,” while NBC News blared “Hackers Tried to Access Clinton’s Private Email at Least 5 Times.” This suggests that a scheming team of evil hackers based in Russia knew of the existence of a private Clinton email account, and then sought to target Clinton using “hacking techniques,” however the popular imagination now conceives of that. This wasn’t a drive-by email phishing, the stories suggest, but a premeditated plot to hack the secretary of state.
But there’s absolutely zero evidence that such a plot existed. The AP story—and it should be noted that the AP has done some groundbreaking and excellent reporting on the Clinton email beat—is based on a series of spam emails from the inbox of Clinton’s off-the-books account released yesterday by the State Department. The emails posed as traffic violation alerts from the City of New York, and directed Clinton to click on a link to pay a speeding tickets—the idea being that recipients irritated at the false accusation would click on the link to investigate, launching a malware package that would surreptitiously infect their computer....
http://gawker.com/theres-no-evidence-that-hillary-clinton-was-targeted-1734012037 via Gawker
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