Hacker discloses how he rigged elections in Latin America - Polidicks

[url]http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-to-hack-an-election/[/url] [quote]For eight years, Sepúlveda, now 31, says he traveled the continent rigging major political campaigns. With a budget of $600,000, the Peña Nieto job was by far his most complex. He led a team of hackers that stole campaign strategies, manipulated social media to create false waves of enthusiasm and derision, and installed spyware in opposition offices, all to help Peña Nieto, a right-of-center candidate, eke out a victory. On that July night, he cracked bottle after bottle of Colón Negra beer in celebration. As usual on election night, he was alone.[/quote] What's most interesting to me is that the methods he uses are not exclusive to Latin America and in fact many of them remind me of the Russian troll factory [url]http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/03/news/russia-troll-factory-putin/[/url] [t]http://i.imgur.com/GpHMxCo.jpg[/t]

[quote]...manipulated social media to create false waves of enthusiasm and derision...[/quote] This is probably done here too. If you would read the comments on certain news sites, you would have like hundred posts in a row praising the right party and turning them into "saviors of the country"(same party whose last prime minister is in jail for corruption) and calling the others "communists and traitors".

Just look at some SH shills that are now banned.

[QUOTE=Killuah;50079651]Just look at some SH shills that are now banned.[/QUOTE] Fat White Lump *cough cough*

Does it mean shills/bots or giving certain posts a shitload of likes/upvotes/whatever and pushing them to front pages?

You could read the article for that info. [editline]6th April 2016[/editline] [quote]As for Sepúlveda, his insight was to understand that voters trusted what they thought were spontaneous expressions of real people on social media more than they did experts on television and in newspapers. He knew that accounts could be faked and social media trends fabricated, all relatively cheaply. He wrote a software program, now called Social Media Predator, to manage and direct a virtual army of fake Twitter accounts. The software let him quickly change names, profile pictures, and biographies to fit any need. Eventually, he discovered, he could manipulate the public debate as easily as moving pieces on a chessboard—or, as he puts it, “When I realized that people believe what the Internet says more than reality, I discovered that I had the power to make people believe almost anything.”[/quote] [editline]6th April 2016[/editline] [quote]On election night, he had computers call tens of thousands of voters with prerecorded phone messages at 3 a.m. in the critical swing state of Jalisco. The calls appeared to come from the campaign of popular left-wing gubernatorial candidate Enrique Alfaro Ramírez. That angered voters—that was the point—and Alfaro lost by a slim margin. In another governor’s race, in Tabasco, Sepúlveda set up fake Facebook accounts of gay men claiming to back a conservative Catholic candidate representing the PAN, a stunt designed to alienate his base. [/quote]

This kind of hacking is as much computer wizardry as it is social engineering.

Except you should read the article. It's much more and combines all of it. Dude hacks databases and accounts regularly.

[QUOTE=Trebgarta;50079630]Just look at any Donald Trump tweet responses. So many high schoolers only tweeting about how Trump will make america great again[/QUOTE] Actually thats believable, a fuckton of dumb high schoolers like Trump because he'a "not a politician" Wants to "stop the terrorists coming over" and "stop illegals from taking our jobs". I say this being a high school student in small town USA

[QUOTE=Trebgarta;50079630]Just look at any Donald Trump tweet responses. So many high schoolers only tweeting about how Trump will make america great again[/QUOTE] And you don't think "BernieBros" don't shill on Reddit/Imgur/Tumblr or any other major websites?

Did nobody read to the end? [quote]Last year, based on anonymous sources, the Colombian media reported that Rendón was working for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Rendón calls the reports untrue. The campaign did approach him, he says, but he turned them down because he dislikes Trump. “To my knowledge we are not familiar with this individual,” says Trump’s spokeswoman, Hope Hicks. “I have never heard of him, and the same goes for other senior staff members.” But Rendón says he’s in talks with another leading U.S. presidential campaign—he wouldn’t say which—to begin working for it once the primaries wrap up and the general election begins.[/quote]

[QUOTE=Killuah;50080394]Did nobody read to the end?[/QUOTE] You [I]really [/I]think people in SH read the article snippets in the OP, let alone the whole thing in the link? :v:

[QUOTE=FinalHunter;50080478]Except that's pretty irrelevant because y'all can't vote so..[/QUOTE] A decent amount of high school students are 18 or will become 18 by the time of the general election.

[QUOTE=Killuah;50080394]Did nobody read to the end?[/QUOTE] My money is on Hillary.

[QUOTE=!LORD M!;50081058]My money is on Hillary.[/QUOTE] her or cruz, since by the wording whichever candidate is looking at him is certain they will win the nomination

Worked for nieto but not for trump just because he doesnt dig the guy? Bullshit. And someone from the US is going to hire this guy? Bullshit He might have made the difference in a 1 or 2%, not more. Politics in latin america arent shiftes or dominated by a guy having a botnet. Bitch please.

[QUOTE=Cutthecrap;50081699]Worked for nieto but not for trump just because he doesnt dig the guy? Bullshit. And someone from the US is going to hire this guy? Bullshit He might have made the difference in a 1 or 2%, not more. Politics in latin america arent shiftes or dominated by a guy having a botnet. Bitch please.[/QUOTE] Did you forget the last elections in the US? 1 or 2% is a lot. In addition the article CLEARLY explains how in some communities it DID shift.

Taking a page from the JIDF I see

[QUOTE=Killuah;50080394]Did nobody read to the end?[/QUOTE] I will laugh if he's talking about Hillary. It's far too easy to see her doing this. [editline]6th April 2016[/editline] [QUOTE=Cutthecrap;50081699]Worked for nieto but not for trump just because he doesnt dig the guy? Bullshit. And someone from the US is going to hire this guy? Bullshit He might have made the difference in a 1 or 2%, not more. Politics in latin america arent shiftes or dominated by a guy having a botnet. Bitch please.[/QUOTE] Somebody doesn't remember Bush vs Gore. One percent change in and of itself is [i]huge[/i].