Chasing the trail in the DNC hack

An article on Politico about the Democratic National Committee email hack interviews Arun Vishwanath, associate professor of communication and an expert on cybersecurity, who said WikiLeaks’ role in various leaks, and specifically how publication of the DNC emails were timed to maximize damage to the Democratic convention and Hillary Clinton’s campaign, suggests that the site may be shifting toward a platform that can play politics when and however it desires and can be leveraged by certain actors to pull off targeted information strikes. “The timing of everything is really odd,” he said. “It seems to be that increasingly people are using WikiLeaks in ways that it wasn’t originally intended to be.”

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http://www.politico.com/tipsheets/morning-tech/2016/07/tracking-the-trail-of-the-dnc-hacker-215535