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The alleged Russian hacker behind the leak of thousands of Democratic National Committee documents in July has been exposed, thanks to some crafty counter-espionage by the Central Intelligence Agency.

“Our cyber warfare specialists have reverse-engineered a data cache and recovered an image from the hacker’s webcam moments before the attack,” said CIA director John Brennan in a statement on Tuesday. “The suspect appears to be a Doge.”

But the identity of the Shiba Inu is being hotly debated in the intelligence community.

“Facial recognition scans are still inconclusive,” says Herman Caufman, a technology consultant who has a number of defense department contracts. “It’s a little insensitive to say it, but a lot of Shibas look the same – at least to a computer.”

The algorithms have surfaced two possible identities of known Russian cyber criminals: Malinov Nikolayevich and Kirigin Fyodor (Fedya) Filippovich. But intelligence experts warn these matches are only about 60% conclusive.

“There’s a strong chance he isn’t even in our databases,” says Caufman. “While this is a huge lead in the investigation, there’s probably a lot more of good old fashioned spying to be done.”

via WhoDatNoy

A group of researchers in California have confirmed that rainbows do not lead to pots of gold as previously suspected. The UCLA-based team followed 15 rainbows over a seven week period in Yosemite National Park. The ends of six rainbows led to dog butts, four ended in old tree stumps, and the ends of the remaining rainbows could not be found.

“We were very surprised by our findings,” said lead researcher Nora Whitehall-Jones. “We’d heard plenty of lore about tree stumps, and we expected to lose the trail of a bunch of rainbows, but the dog butts came out of nowhere.”

The group can’t confirm if this is a universal phenomenon or something specific to the Yosemite Valley region. They’re planning a pair of follow up studies next year in Shenadoah National Park in Virginia and Killarney National Park in Ireland. A second group from the University of North Carolina also plans to investigate urban rainbows in and around the city of Charlotte, North Carolina.

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