OT: I'm sure you wingnuts will find some reason to discount this...

[Alan Baker]

<https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/05/florida-gop-consultant-admits-he-worked-with-guccifer-2-0-analyzing-hacked-data/>

'A Florida GOP campaign consultant who runs a blog under a pseudonym
directly contacted the hackers behind the breach of the Democratic
National Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee,
and he solicited material from them. The Wall Street Journal reports
that Aaron Nevins set up a Dropbox account specifically for “Guccifer
2.0” to drop files into, and he received 2.5 GB of data from the
Democratic Party breaches—including “get out the vote” strategy for
congressional candidates in Florida.

Nevins analyzed the data and posted his analysis on his blog,
HelloFLA.com. Guccifer 2.0 sent a link to the blog to Trump backer Roger
Stone, who was also in communication with the hackers, according to
Stone. Nevins told the Journal that the hackers didn't understand what
they had until he explained its value.

Some of the most valuable data, Nevins said, was the Democratic Party's
voter turnout models. “Basically if this was a war, this is the map to
where all the troops are deployed,” Nevins told the person or persons
behind the Guccifer 2.0 account. He also told them, “This is probably
worth millions of dollars."

Guccifer 2.0 responded via direct message, "Hmmm. ok u owe me a million :)”

The DNC breach has been attributed by a variety of means to attackers
tied to Russian intelligence—specifically, to Russia’s GRU. Nevins told
the Journal he didn’t believe that, but he said that it didn’t matter to
him who Guccifer 2.0 was, because “If your interests align, never shut
any doors in politics."'

And while it's behind a paywall, here's the original article's link:

<https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-alleged-russian-hacker-teamed-up-with-florida-gop-operative-1495724787>