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		apexalpha on March 23, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Guccifer 2.0 Slipped Up and Revealed He Was a Russ... It doesn't even need to be a fuck up. Knowing the scrutiny this hack would trigger means he could've easily left a single connection to a russian IP address as false bread crumb trail for investigators.

varjag on March 23, 2018 [–]

So you seriously mean he logged in from GRU HQ in Moscow to frame Russia years later?

lostcolony on March 23, 2018 | [–]

Once, I might add. He did it once, and was willing to wait years with no reason to believe anyone noticed.

That totally says "false trail" rather than "fuck up" to me. /sarcasm

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