Trump in the minds of voters with the Proud Boys after he was criticized for failing to unequivocally denounce the group during the first presidential debate. One possibility is the messages may have been intended to align Mr. John Ratcliffe, the government’s national intelligence director, said the aim was to hurt President Donald Trump in the contest against Democrat Joe Biden, though he did not elaborate on how. Purportedly from far-right, pro-Trump groups like the Proud Boys, the fake emails were apparently aimed at intimidating voters. They use some of its information to intimidate people, but it’s like a chain letter that threatens bad luck if you “break the chain.” And I don’t believe in chain letters.United States officials have accused Iran of being behind a flurry of threatening but fake emails sent to Democratic voters in multiple battleground states in a late-stage effort to sway public opinion and interfere in the presidential election. Such emails have nothing to do with our voting system. The point of this exercise was to sow confusion and distrust in our voting system. Capable hackers could also break into email accounts in other countries and use them to forward their spam. It is easy to establish an email account in another country and send emails through that country. Unfortunately, this doesn’t really identify the emails’ origins. ( Here is how you can trace the route of an email). According to CBS News, several emails were sent from an Internet cloud service in Saudi Arabia, while others came from Estonia and the United Arab Emirates. People have reviewed the email headers for hints of where they originated. They might be mailing addresses with matching email addresses that target areas that didn’t vote for Trump in the last election. It’s also possible that the address lists aren’t voter rolls at all. Most campaigns are too busy and too cash-strapped to attend to cybersecurity. If “voter rolls” were indeed stolen, they were most likely stolen from candidates’ campaigns. Current lists probably include party affiliation and email addresses. Every city, county, and state will provide these lists to bona fide candidates for office, and possibly to others as well. Voter registration information (especially mailing addresses) has been the bread and butter of political campaigns for at least a century. Was voter data stolen from local registration databases? While the briefing did not specifically refer to the Proud Boys email, reporting in the Washington Post ties the briefing’s contents to those emails. The Director of National Intelligence gave a briefing on recent election-hacking activities blamed on Iran and Russia. The domain may have been vulnerable to abuse during the transfer process. They quoted a member of the group saying that they were moving the domain between Internet vendors. Reporting in the Washington Post notes that the Proud Boys domain is not currently connected any Internet services. You don’t need to control the Proud Boys email to use their domain name in a forged email. I have written other articles about this. It takes very little technical skill to send emails with a forged “From” address. In this case, it’s not obvious because lots of people are registered voters. Sometimes it’s obvious, like when we don’t have an account at the named bank. We’ve all received an email from the bank claiming our account is locked, and we must click this link to unlock it, or all our bill payments will be rejected. This is like countless other mass-produced email scams on the Internet. The email’s personalized contents were filled in automatically from a database containing thousands of names, addresses, and emails. This was not a gun nut with a grudge who personally emailed people he heard about. Hundreds of emails have been reported, so thousands were probably sent.
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