And Hello and welcome to malicious life I'm Ranlev.

When representatives from the Democratic National Committee reached out to a Silicon

Valley Cybersecurity Company to investigate a potential breach in their computer system, it's hard to imagine what they might have expected

to come out of it.

At best, perhaps this was just some software error that could be quickly identified and patched.

At worst, some opposition agent or potential leaker might be snooping where they shouldn't be.

Whatever it was, it's unlikely that anyone would have expected what

was actually wrong. A representative of the company called Crowd Strike began looking into the matter.

It didn't take long to discover that something was a miss.

Red flags were popping up all over the DNC's computer servers.

This wasn't some hidden bug.

It was a giant glaring danger, danger.

What unfolded following this single discovery would amount to the grandest plot of international

sabotage since the end of the Cold War.

In almost all instances, a heck like the DNCs isn't something we'd know about in the general public.

Crowd strike, for one, was positively thrilled when the DNC informed them that they'd like to publish the results of the investigation.

It would be the public relations boost of a lifetime, one that most cybersecurity companies can only dream of.

The reason why the DNC felt motivated to make this affair public, of course, is that

the embarrassment factor of having gotten hacked was outweighed by how well it fit

into a larger narrative the Democrats were pushing during the whole 2016 election cycle.

This incident was direct evidence to a major sabotage campaign by the Russian government

to disrupt the US election, introduce chaos to the American Democratic system

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