DNC | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:47:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png DNC | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 Facebook auto-blocked Wikileaks links, claims ‘accident’ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/facebook-auto-blocked-wikileaks-links-claims-accident/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/facebook-auto-blocked-wikileaks-links-claims-accident/#comments Tue, 26 Jul 2016 15:47:39 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=300595 Facebook has been accused of deliberately blocking links to Wikileaks after it revealed secretive collusion between U.S. democratic presidential hopeful, Hilary Clinton and the Democratic Party. This lead many users to accuse the social network of censorship, though Facebook has now claimed it was an accident. Although the general election is still months away, the political race is …

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Facebook has been accused of deliberately blocking links to Wikileaks after it revealed secretive collusion between U.S. democratic presidential hopeful, Hilary Clinton and the Democratic Party. This lead many users to accuse the social network of censorship, though Facebook has now claimed it was an accident.

Although the general election is still months away, the political race is heating up in America right now. With Donald Trump the official Republican nomination and Hilary Clinton very much the presumptive nominee for the Democrats, the email dump from Wikileaks which showed immoral and potentially criminal behaviour on Clinton's behalf is having quite a dramatic effect.

Following on from the FBI's recommendation not to indict Clinton over her lack of care in handling secretive documents, it's lead to protests at the Democratic national convention and huge outpourings of frustration from fans of Clinton's main democratic rival, Bernie Sanders, on social networks.

Understandably, many of those Sanders supporters wanted to let people know about the big email and document dump from Wikileaks, but found themselves blocked from posting links to it on both Facebook and Twitter.

Wikileaks went on to encourage users to use link shorteners to get around Facebook's block, though it seems that it didn't stay in place for long. Within hours, Facebook CSO Alex Stamos publicly stated that the issue had been fixed.

When he later spoke with Wikileaks, it was explained (via RT) that it was a problem with Facebook's automated anti-spam tool, which picked up the links to documents as potentially malicious. It was described in a later tweet by Wikileaks, as an “accident.”

There is still some scepticism with regards to these claims, but considering the issue appears to have been resolved, most people seem happy to move on.

They may not get the chance to though, as Kim Dotcom recently told the world that we should expect a lot more from Wikileaks in the future.

KitGuru Says: Have you ever run into problems with Facebook or another social network not letting you post links to content that shouldn't cause a problem?

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Hacker teases Wikileaks document dump from U.S. Democratic party https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/hacker-teases-wikileaks-document-dump-from-u-s-democratic-party/ https://www.kitguru.net/channel/jon-martindale/hacker-teases-wikileaks-document-dump-from-u-s-democratic-party/#comments Thu, 16 Jun 2016 10:18:07 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=296195 A lone hacker has come forward and claimed responsibility for the hack of the U.S. Democratic party servers, something that digital security firm Crowdstrike claimed was the result of Russian state sponsored hackers. The lone hacker claims to have everything from financial data on donations, to a report on Donald Trump. Earlier this week a number of …

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A lone hacker has come forward and claimed responsibility for the hack of the U.S. Democratic party servers, something that digital security firm Crowdstrike claimed was the result of Russian state sponsored hackers. The lone hacker claims to have everything from financial data on donations, to a report on Donald Trump.

Earlier this week a number of publications reported the news that the Democratic party's servers had been hacked by Russians. However the party claimed that nothing of real significance was stolen, other than its internal report on Donald Trump. However it now seems that it grossly underestimated the digital thievery.

Along with said Trump report, information on donations and security documents that Hilary Clinton herself worked on while Secretary of State, were all downloaded by the lone hacker. Plans for Hilary Clinton being pushed forward were also dug up, suggesting a measure of collusion between her and the established party representatives.

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Perhaps more damning, is a list of “Friends of HRC,” detailing who has donated to the potential presidential candidate. Titles suggest many of them are members of the political or legal system, which may cause concerns for Clinton as it suggests those people may expect something from her in return in the future.

Documents leaked so far can be found on the hacker's WordPress site, though they promise that Wikileaks has thousands of others that they handed over. Considering Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has promised in recent days to release enough information on Hilary Clinton to encourage an indictment based on her insecure usage of a private email server, it wouldn't be surprising to see a lot of documents show up in the coming weeks.

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KitGuru Says: If nothing else, this should make the American election cycle a bit more of a sideshow than it already is. An indictment against Clinton would shake things up no end.

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