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Title: Did Anonymous Stop Rove?
Post by: Howey on February 05, 2013, 10:16:51 am
I'm not one for conspiracy theories, but this (http://www.salon.com/2012/11/20/did_anonymous_stop_rove_stealing_the_election/) actually could have some meat to it.
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On Election Night, viewers watched in shock as Karl Rove refused to accept the call, confirmed by Fox News analysts, that Ohio had gone to Obama.

A release claiming to be from hacker collective Anonymous alleges there was more behind Rove’s freak-out than first met the eye. The group says that it foiled Rove’s attempt to steal the election in Florida, Virginia and Ohio by using the GOP’s ORCA system.

Two weeks prior to Election Night, a typical Anonymous video was released warning Rove against rigging the election. “We want you to know that we are watching you, waiting for you to make this mistake of thinking you can rig this election to your favor,” Anonymous’ ubiquitous Guy Fawkes character warned.

Then, following Obama’s win and Rove’s very public outburst, a group calling themselves “The Protectors,” believed to be comprised of Anonymous hackers, sent a letter to election transparency non-profit, Velvet Revolution, claiming to have thwarted attempts by GOP strategists to flip votes and rig the election in three swing states.

The letter claims that the GOP’s ORCA — a GOTV (Get Out the Vote) system — was in fact designed to rig votes in favor of Romney (although the letter does not verify this or specify how ORCA was designed to do this.) The Protectors claim that they installed a  password protected firewall to block attempts to digitally rig votes:

    We coded and created, what we call, The Great Oz. A targeted password protected firewall that we tested and refined over the past weeks. We place this code on more than one of the digital tunnels and their destination’s that Karl’s not so smart worker bees planned to use on election night.

The Protectors alleged these “digital tunnels” were leading to servers in three different states. The release claims that Rove’s operatives attempted to unsuccessfully breach The Great Oz firewall to access these tunnels throughout election night. “We watched as Karl’s weak corrupters repeatedly tried to penetrate The Great Oz.  These children of his were at a loss-how many times and how many passwords did they try? — exactly 105.”

The details in the Anonymous claim are currently unverified and there are many lingering question. For one, as our own Alex Seitz-Wald pointed out via email, “they never explain how Rove was stealing the election in Ohio, Florida, and Virginia. [There are] not many e-voting machines and not sure how else you’d do it.”


lol...sounds like a plot line from my new favorite TV show, Scandal.

Oh, wait. It is!


Title: Re: Did Anonymous Stop Rove?
Post by: ekg on February 05, 2013, 08:56:57 pm
I think this was already posted on here right around election night.. it's a good theory, but I don't buy it..


Title: Re: Did Anonymous Stop Rove?
Post by: 44nutman on February 06, 2013, 02:20:10 pm
I think this was already posted on here right around election night.. it's a good theory, but I don't buy it..
I posted it. I would not put anything past Ham Rove. It does make me happy that he blew all his political capital on this election. Hard to take his dumbass serious after his election night display on Fox.


Title: Re: Did Anonymous Stop Rove?
Post by: uselesslegs on February 06, 2013, 02:46:50 pm
I posted it. I would not put anything past Ham Rove. It does make me happy that he blew all his political capital on this election. Hard to take his dumbass serious after his election night display on Fox.

I tend to agree. His reaction to reality, seemed a lot more panicky and confused, than just someone who had the media bubble they supposedly lived in being popped. 

Rove is a sharp, calculated asshole.  He might have engaged in many of the standard talking points and rhetoric that the bubble media did...but that was for effect to listeners/viewers (gotta keep the act up). He's way to fuck'in crafty and strategic...and he didn't become Ham Rove by eating the same shit served to the sheep...that would have made him completely ineffective.  The fake wizard who starts really thinking he's doing magic is useless.

His freakout wasn't imagined reality crashing. There's a different kind of "disbelief" and shock that transpires. "Easter Bunnies not real? President Obama isn't really a secret Muslim Terrorist?" No, his freakout was the kind you see when someone who knows they "got this fucker in the bag" based on real world knowledge, suddenly becomes un-reality.