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Dead Drop: October 28

Dead Drop: October 28

ELECTION MEDDLING:  The Russian “news” service Sputnik (a wholly owned subsidiary of Putin Inc.) reported this week that Moscow’s “Ambassador at Large,” Vladimir Churov, says he is shocked, shocked at the intervention in the U.S. election by intelligence services – no – not those intelligence agencies.  He meant the CIA and FBI. Churov says “the US intelligence agencies' warnings of outside interference in vote rigging or altering vote numbers at precincts” could be a cover for their own plans “to withhold data, including the number of voters, early voters and the election returns.”  This sounds like the first installment of a “I know you are but what am I?” reaction in the aftermath of the upcoming election.

MALWEIRD: We learned from Yahoo Sports (of all places) about some absurd malware floating around which, if surreptitiously installed on your computer, causes all your normal processes to shut down and a warning message to flash on your screen saying that you must send “50$” within 24 hours to the CIA/FBI or the "registred (sic) name on your house adress (sic) election vote will not be valid."   Unless the CIA and FBI have been taken over by those Nigerian princes who keep sending us email – we suspect this threat is not valid.

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