Yesterday,
or at least until the leak by @whaledump, I thought that National
could ride this out and scrape through in the elections, in which
case things would get VERY, VERY ugly in the country.
After
listening to right-wing commentator, Matthew Hooten, who is not
stranger to attack politics, I changed my mind.
I
think Key and his corrupt, fascist government is toast.
You
have to bear in mind that Matthew Hooten is a part of
dirty politics – he figures amongst the characters of
Nicky Hager's book and is part of 'the Hollow Men'
Never
mind what ex-Labour president, Mike Williams says (he would)
If
Matthew says what he does in this interview you have to to sit up.
Matthew
Hooten on 'Dirty Politics'
Five
days on from its release, Nine to Noon's political commentators
Matthew Hooton and Mike Williams discuss the ongoing fallout from
Nicky Hager's new book, Dirty Politics.
The
book says blogger Cameron Slater received information from National
Party insiders including a now-former member of John Key's staff, and
the Justice Minister, Judith Collins.
Twitter
email dump set up in advance
Radio NZ,
19 August, 2014
The
release of emails and Facebook messages that formed the basis of
book Dirty
Politics were
programmed several days in advance, according to a security expert
specialising in the forensic investigation of IT systems.
Some
of the material on which Wellington writer Nicky Hager based the book
was released on Twitter yesterday afternoon by someone with the
twitter handle of @Whaledump.
The
12 documents on Twitter are screen shots of emails between Whale Oil
blogger Cameron Slater and others, including former Key staffer Jason
Ede, the details of which are carried in the book.
Mr
Hager had earlier said said although his source wouldn't allow him to
release material, the source himself might.
Whaledump
on Twitter.
Security
consultant Daniel Ayers said Whaledump was set more than a week
before the 13 August launch of the book and the tweets written in
advance and programmed to be released at a set time.
"The
topic of Mr Hager's book was a closely guarded secret right up until
its launch last week, so whoever knew to create a Twitter account
called Whaledump on the 4th of August was obviously very close to the
action," he said.
"And
also the fact that the tweets are not being sent live suggests to me
that somebody needs an alibi."
The
chief executive of Computer Forensics Limited, Brian Eardley-Wilmot,
warns the only way to tell whether the documents are real is to
investigate the computer that captured the emails.
"Without
access to the original email file you are not going to get anything
that's provable at all. Anything that you guys out there are talking
about may well be bogus."
A
researcher at the University of Auckland, Peter Gutmann, said hacking
a single person is difficult, but there's a criminal market with
tools on sale to do this.
Mr
Gutmann, computer hacking expert, said one way to target someone is
to mock up an email just for them, and include a link they follow.
That installs malicious software on their computer to capture
passwords.
Radio New Zealand
interviewed Labour Party leader, David Cunliffe
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