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Trump claims DNC hack conducted by a fattie sitting on his bed

by on27 September 2016


Not my friend Tsar Putin


In last night’s debate, comedy candidate Donald Trump claimed that the hack of the democrats was carried out by a “400 pound" fatty sitting on his bed.”

Clearly Trump has inside information, after all he is not renown for just opening his mouth and letting the wind blow his tongue around. He was also very specific about the hacker’s weight and where he was when he carried out the hack.

Now most security experts think that the hack was carried out by Putin’s disinformation unit in a bid to get a bloke who owes him money into the White House. Trump has not helped this cause by publicly calling on the hackers to do it again.

This put Trump in rather a weak point when he went head-to-head with Hillary Clinton in the first of three debates between the two main party nominees for president. One of the subjects discussed was national cybersecurity.

Clinton said that "there's no doubt now that Russia has used cyberattacks against all kinds of organizations in our country, and I am deeply concerned about this." Earlier this year, news broke that the DNC had been hacked, and the entity behind it — calling itself "Guccifer 2.0" — has been selectively leaking damaging internal documents ever since.

Trump rushed to Putin’s defence saying that he didn’t know it was Russia who broke into the DNC, becuase him not knowing something is proof that it did not happen.

"Clinton is saying Russia, Russia, Russia. Maybe it was. It could also be China, it could be someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds."

He then vaguely asserted that the US has "lost control of" the internet and had to “get very, very tough on cyber and cyber warfare. It is a, it is a huge problem.

"I have a son. He's 10 years old. He has computers. He is so good with these computers, it's unbelievable. The security aspect of cyber is very, very tough. And maybe it's hardly doable. But I will say, we are not doing the job we should be doing, but that's true throughout our whole governmental society. We have so many things that we have to do better, Lester, and certainly cyber is one of them."

Clinton identified cybersecurity as "one of the greatest challenges facing the next president. We're facing, at this point, two different kinds adversaries. There are the independent hacking groups that do it mostly for commercial reasons to try to steal information that they then can use to make money. But increasingly, we are seeing cyberattacks coming from states."

"We recently learned that this is one of their preferred methods of trying to wreak havoc and collect information. We need to make it very clear, whether it's Russia, China, Iran, or anybody else, the United States has much greater capacity."

The former Secretary of State suggested that she would take a more proactive role in retaliating against alleged nation state attacks: "We are not going to sit idly by and permit state actors to go after our information, our private sector information or our public sector information, and we're going to have to make it clear that we don't want to use the kinds of tools that we have. We don't want to engage in a different kind of warfare. But we will defend the citizens of this country, and the Russians need to understand that."

Last modified on 27 September 2016
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