PILOT SPIN

Spin Zone => Spin Zone => Topic started by: Jim Logajan on December 19, 2016, 09:25:44 PM

Title: NY Times full page ads for confidential info
Post by: Jim Logajan on December 19, 2016, 09:25:44 PM: According to this reason.com article http://reason.com/archives/2016/12/19/trump-versus-the-we-bes (http://reason.com/archives/2016/12/19/trump-versus-the-we-bes) the New York Times has started advertising for news leeks, and the article suspects the Times is hoping for dirt from the DC bureaucracy since they voted overwhelmingly against Trump. The ad:

https://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2016/news-tips/ (https://www.nytimes.com/newsgraphics/2016/news-tips/)
Title: Re: NY Times full page ads for confidential info
Post by: Lucifer on December 20, 2016, 06:23:44 AM: Obviously a Russian plot.
Title: Re: NY Times full page ads for confidential info
Post by: Witmo on December 20, 2016, 09:42:29 AM: Quote from: Lucifer on December 20, 2016, 06:23:44 AM
Obviously a Russian plot.
No need for Russians to solicit information--they just steal it.
Title: Re: NY Times full page ads for confidential info
Post by: Number7 on December 20, 2016, 09:45:02 AM: Quote from: Witmo on December 20, 2016, 09:42:29 AM
No need for Russians to solicit information--they just steal it.
Oh my goodness, you are walking, partisan joke.
Title: Re: NY Times full page ads for confidential info
Post by: Lucifer on December 20, 2016, 09:45:28 AM: Quote from: Witmo on December 20, 2016, 09:42:29 AM
No need for Russians to solicit information--they just steal it.

Or set up a trap, like a phishing scheme for some dumbass campaign manager to fall for.
Title: Re: NY Times full page ads for confidential info
Post by: Number7 on December 20, 2016, 09:46:38 AM: Quote from: Lucifer on December 20, 2016, 09:45:28 AM
Or set up a trap, like a phishing scheme for some dumbass campaign manager to fall for.

Or wait for the criminal secretary of state to set up an illegal, unsafe server in her shitter and have a junior high school kid hack it, then watch what comes out.
Title: Re: NY Times full page ads for confidential info
Post by: President-Elect Bob Noel on December 20, 2016, 02:10:29 PM: Quote from: Witmo on December 20, 2016, 09:42:29 AM
No need for Russians to solicit information--they just steal it.

um, there are multiple methods to, ahem, solicit information.
Title: Re: NY Times full page ads for confidential info
Post by: Little Joe on December 20, 2016, 03:32:30 PM: Quote from: Bob Noel on December 20, 2016, 02:10:29 PM
um, there are multiple methods to, ahem, solicit information.
The "Honey Pot" is one of the preferred methods.