Quit with the fucking conspiracy theories. Seriously -- can we get a fucking mod in here to get rid of this shit.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13811866 and marked it off-topic.
FWIW, my strong word choice was to draw specifically YOUR attention to the parent. That you consider me "counterproductive" while allowing HN to become a fake news echo chamber is irresponsible.
An attitude among the gatekeepers of "people are going to post for and against this stuff" is exactly why "fake news" is a problem.
Podesta: "I'm definitely for making an example of a suspected leaker whether or not we have any real basis for it." https://www.wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/36082#efmAG...
which is verifiable with google's 2048-bit dkim key.
I am sorry that the subject is sore, but that is not a reason to accept a contrived government narrative or dismiss any otherwise postulation or, in this case, theoretical supposition as conspiracy theory.
We humans obviously can't handle the mental load implicit in running a cohesive society. Let's leave it behind and revert to subsistence foraging.
In addition, former British ambassador Craig Murray (a man with a solid reputation and little reason to lie) claims to have personally met the source and insists that the source is definitely a political insider without ties to Russia.
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2016/12/cias-absence...
Assange has no reason to implicate Russia. It would also be very, very easy to give a disgruntled insider the email trove or help them stumble upon it.
Source: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/how-hackers-broke...
I don't think a disgruntled washington insider did that! I could be confused and there's another set of emails that you're referring to. It's impossible to keep up on everything lately.
Quite the contrary: If I definitely know that my target is too incompetent to check what he clicks on, or that he forgets his password every week, it's waaay easier for me to achieve my goal.
There are plenty of people that value money over morals.
In no way is Assange most likely to know what happened, in the same way that a Tor exit node is not most likely to know who originated a message it delivered. Those with actual intelligence assets are far more likely to know who the ultimate source is.
Y'all can hide behind your keyboards, but there are real people here. Think about them for a change.
https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/763565863861616640/phot...
(Although I don't think deleting random comments on HN will help stop people spreading the conspiracy and that wasn't the only point the OP made)