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So Russia has reportedly moved on from Hacking our Election Infrastructure. Moving on to other things. Don’t believe it. They are everywhere in our Election System. They know the importance of the Midterms.

And Now This!
cnn.com/2018/08/21/pol…

Thread Parts of an operation linked to Russian military intelligence targeting the US Senate and conservative think tanks were thwarted last week. The domains were associated with the Russian government and known as Strontium, or alternatively Fancy Bear or APT28

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Georgia to close 75% of Black Counties Precincts!! Precincts that were all open during the Primaries. They know they have a problem. Even with the Election machines that give suspect results they know they need more help.

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crooksandliars.com/2018/08/georgi… If this stands we need to start a major effort to provide transportation in this county. We will need drivers, volunteers and people to help distribute notices and spread the word.

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BOOM!
More than 250 Trump Organization Subdomains are in Communication with Computers in Russia!!

Thread The Trump Organization, like most large organizations, has a lot of domains registered to it. Let's take a look.

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Remote Access Software used by ES&S Voting. They finally tell the truth. At least some of it. Thank you to @KimZetter for pursuing her initial story from February. I am afraid we are missing the bigger point here.

Thread States have given over their Election Systems to a myriad of Private Companies. The States in many cases have absolutely no idea what is happening with their Elections.

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Michigan, ES&S and the Voting Machines that couldn’t count!!

Why are States Buying and Using Machines that don’t pass testing?

It is infuriating!!

Thread All along there have been problems with electronic voting. Again and again election officials and observers have spoken up, only to be ignored.

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Maryland Voter Registration System runs on Russian Owned Software! The biggest problem here is that they never knew it. How is that possible? The States have no idea who is behind the companies they give the Elections over to.

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wbaltv.com/article/maryla… We are going to be dropping a ton of research on exactly this. Why do States willfully do this. Would a state actually know if something went bad ? Let's talk more about Spearphishing.

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Supreme Court Justices

Religious Fundamentalists

And

Bots

Oh My!

What you weren’t taught in school about how your Gov’t works.

Thread Who appoints our Supreme Court? The President?

Or a Catholic fundamentalist who controls a network of right-wing groups funded by dark money?

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Mueller sees Russian effort to influence the 2018 Midterms.

Why after two years of our Election System being targeted are we not getting any information?

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politico.com/story/2018/06/… We know approximately half our states Voter Registration sites were being targeted in 2016
Some straight thru December

Almost a year later DHS decided to inform the states.

What the hell is going on if we have states that don’t know they are being hit by Russian IP’s.

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The Jane Austen Russian Pornbot

I see I got your attention

Time to take down another one.

This one is interesting

Everyone please Retweet and Report

Thanks to @GwendolynIRL for sending us some additional info

Thread A few days ago we noticed an interesting response in the comments on a thread. A tattooed woman tweeted "points of blood and". Points of blood and?

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A Key State

Fake State Twitter Accounts

Fake County Twitter Accounts

Fake US Twitter Accounts

Tons of Followers

Alt Right Content

A huge problem

We need your help

Thread On Twitter, as on other social media, fakery is rampant. It leaves the door wide open for accounts to impersonate people and organizations, or to claim false credentials.

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A Botnet

Different than your typical Botnet

Lots of Resistance Followers

Lets take a look

Thread I really didn’t want to do another Botnet thread. This one however needs to be exposed. 9 months of activity. Over 12 Million posts. Many Resistance members following.

While we are at it how the hell after all this time and all of these tweets did Twitter not spot this Botnet?

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Most times elections are won or lost in a handful of States.

But.
Russia targeted almost half of our States Voter Systems.
Cambridge Analytica had at least 87 Million of us in their data.

Why so far beyond what they needed for the Swing States?

Thread So why go so far beyond?
Why draw so much more attention to the targeting?

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For Companies Like Facebook and Google and others you are not their customers.

You Are Their Product.

How To Protect Your Personal Data.

Thread Recent stories regarding the use of people’s Facebook data and it’s use by Cambridge Analytica/Trump campaign has many thinking about their privacy.

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Cambridge Analytica

Fake News

Bots

and the Swing States

You need to see these numbers!!

We didn't have a chance!!

Thread Obviously there was an all out effort to manipulate who voted during the 2016 Election.

We were besieged with Fake News, Bots, Data Mining and Micro Targeted Ads

Wherever we turned we got Fake news

Whether it was TV, You Tube, our Social Media accounts or the Trump Campaign.

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Cambridge Analytica. The Video.

The Questions it raises.

The Rabbit Hole.

Thread Here is a very interesting video of a presentation made in 2017 by Molly Schweickert, Cambridge Analytica's Global Head of Digital.

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Lets talk about what our process is.

Lets address this data thing.

Thread For every single state we run for our election graphs, Saill has always provided the direct download link to download from the state to get data we are using. Always. It is just state data.

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Anti-Trump Bots now in Full Swing!!

New Bot - different from our VotyBot.

Lets take a deeper look.

Thread First off thanks to @icklepepper for getting me some screenshots to start our research.

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Trump Sub Domains Thread 4

We are not done with our story of the Trump Subdomains pointing to St. Petersburg Russia.

Why we don’t think they were there by accident or hack.

Thread These subdomains were not part of the documented GoDaddy "Shadow Domain" exploits. Or any other exploit or hack.

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Another look back to what we knew last year about Russia's attempt to hack Voter Registration systems. In Illinois, investigators found evidence that cyber intruders tried to delete or alter voter data. The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database

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What we knew about Russia Hacking of State Election Websites. This from Ruben Major from May. Illinois not just targeted but hacked hard.

Thread The report indicated that the SBE website was hit a massive number of 5 times per second 24 hours per day. The Board also concluded that “various IVRS passwords were compromised.”

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Keep your online identity from being stolen and misused, with little to no cost.

A Tutorial on how we all can make online activity more secure.

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