Meet The Hacker That Rigged 9 Presidential Elections.

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"Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade. He tells his story for the first time."

"Sepúlveda’s career began in 2005, and his first jobs were small—mostly defacing campaign websites and breaking into opponents’ donor databases. Within a few years he was assembling teams that spied, stole, and smeared on behalf of presidential campaigns across Latin America. He wasn’t cheap, but his services were extensive. For $12,000 a month, a customer hired a crew that could hack smartphones, spoof and clone Web pages, and send mass e-mails and texts. The premium package, at $20,000 a month, also included a full range of digital interception, attack, decryption, and defense. The jobs were carefully laundered through layers of middlemen and consultants. Sepúlveda says many of the candidates he helped might not even have known about his role; he says he met only a few.

His teams worked on presidential elections in Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Venezuela."

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Full article @ http://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-how-to-hack-an-election/

Scary

I shall leave it to the reader to contemplate whether(or how often) this has occurred in any other countries on this planet.
No doubt the tech involved and the knowledge of social psychology used is ubiquitous.

Considering the number of small nation government structures we've...influenced since WWII I have to wonder if we in the USA have been paying part of his salary. Seems like that list (Nicaragua, Panama, Honduras, El Salvador, Colombia, Mexico, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Venezuela) fits pretty well with the known list of nations we've been pretty heavily involved with or had some neo-con interest in controlling.

unalloyed evil at play here.

Power is the greatest of all intoxicants.
They will do anything for it.

"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." [ lord acton ]