Discussion for article #229407
“…book that is littered with pseudonyms”
…book that is littered with Attkison avoiding anyone being able to check the veracity of her claims.
FIFY
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Any “hacker” would know that a corporation the size of CBS would have systems and data backed up. Wiping data off a computer hard drive seems…pointless. And a little bit 1988.
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“Bob Austin, the president and co-founder of KoreLogic, told Wemple that a confidentiality agreement would likely preclude the firm from discussing its work on Attkisson’s computer.”
Yes, how convenient. And what’s with CBS?
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Someone who wants attention says someone who will remain unnamed did something to them?
Golly.
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Well, of course they aren’t going to say anything. Confidentiality agreements usually come as part of a contract…which means money. And I suspect they are expecting a hefty windfall from her for keeping their mouths shut.
The audience for her book doesn’t need to be told the real names. They get that information via the tin foil hats they wear.
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Disquieting? I for one am IN FAVOR of bugging this twerp. Keep both ears and all 4 eyes on shell game cons and other grifters.
Tho … I suppose … CBS and the gummint and the telcos may all prefer to keep their mouths shut and stay out the whacky radar of this publicity pooch.
if youre reporting remotely from a random location you may not have access to the internet for cloud backups. if she had that, then, they wouldnt need to hit her box.
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Oh please. You seem to have her confused with the other CBS Benghazi obsessed wingnut. The blond one who actually went to dangerous remote places.
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Evidently in this woman’s lunatic mind, claiming her computer and phone had been tampered with was not tin foil hat enough, so she also claims they did something to her TV.
Since I am not an expert in espionage, could someone who is please explain to me how someone tampers with your TV, and how that enables them to spy on you, or ruin your work you are doing on a story? CBS let that right wing hack Logan make total fools of them, and she still has a job, and yet they saw fit to fire this woman, so that should tell us something.
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And the question remains: Why in god’s name would the government hack her since she never had anything worth stealing in the first place?
And we’re once again told of non-attributable proprietary commercial hacking software that can be attributed to a nonspecific government agency and definitely not Russian hackers. I mean, apparently, they infected her when she opened a bad email link as well as using hotel wifi, and that can ONLY be the work of a government agency…or a teenager in Russia…or the Chinese government…or just about anyone with Tor. But it’s got to be our government, since that sells books. I just hope she knows she’s pulling a con, but I’m not sure she does.
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Why they bother with her computer is confusing. Certainly Obama reads her thoughts in real time via the chip embedded in her brain.
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here’s something to learn about cbs, which also applies to nbc, abc, espn fux and other networks: these are nothing but right wing controlled outlets of garbage. Witness any sports on these networks, they are riven with christianist stupidity, the price we now have to pay to watch sports. Do yourself and the world a favor, when these shthooks force their christianist garbage on us turn it off. Advertisers will soon learn that allowing networks to force christianist horsesht on We the People will turn bad.
As an IT professional with 25 years + of experience working in SCIFs for a variety of private and government entities I can say this stinks of attention whoring and nothing else. It isn’t like bad TV where you “see” your HD being erased or stolen.
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Perhaps CBS and KoreLogic are complying with a pre-emptive cease-and-desist order from the publisher’s lawyer to not say anything that would dampen the book’s launch. If so, both may say more after the order expires.
In addition to her computer, she says there were “anomalies with her television.” I knew David Letterman was watching me! And don’t tell me Ryan Seacrest isn’t talking to me in code! Seacrest Out, my ass!!!1!
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In the fall of 2013, with White House officials accusing Attkisson of being biased in her Benghazi reporting, the files in her MacBook Air suddenly began deleting at hyperspeed right before her eyes. She videotaped the process and showed it to two computer experts. “They’re [blanking] with you,” one says. “They’re trying to send you a message,” says the other. The experts also found evidence that the intruders had tried to cover their tracks by erasing 23 hours of log-in information.
It was a real stroke of luck that she was able to grab a video recorder in time to capture the files being deleted at hyperspeed.
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It seems like highly sophisticated non-attributable proprietary commercial hacking software would delete files surreptitiously without the user noticing them disappearing right before her very eyes and more importantly her video camera.
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Depends on the TV. Most things electronic are hackable, even more so if they have remote access capabilities.