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Russian Attacks on John Podesta, DNC Leaks Are Fake
By Tatsu Ikeda
14 December 2016
Bottom line, the Russian conspiracy is a myth, for both Podesta Leaks and DNC Leaks. I will prove it.
A reconstruction of the email shows a google warning and the famous Bitly link. The domain of the server used to trick John into giving away his password was
myaccount.google.com-securitysettingpage.tk. A simple host lookup show that is was an alias for om-securitysettingpage.tk. This server operated in the Netherlands, the register was Dot TK of the Netherlands. Today the whois lookup is refused, as part of the coverup. Adding a plus sign at the end of the bitly link shows that the link was clicked on twice, the same time the email phish was sent, March 19, 2016. The interesting thing going to home page
http://com-securitysettingpage.tk, the server used to trick John, brought up his own wikipedia page by way of an "iframe", a very simple way to inject the real wikipedia page into the server's home page. This page was snapshotted twice by Wayback Machine at archive.org. The link is
https://web.archive.org/web/20161028181521/http://com-securitysettingpage.tk.
So you tell me, is the simple email hack the work of Russian state professional hackers? Why use Bitly at all? Why troll John by leaving his wikipedia page on the server used to trick him, 6 whole months after the so-called "hack"? This is the attack of a 12 year old, Nigerian prince stuff. It's not sophisticated in the least.