Joy Reid apologizes and says experts haven't proven she was hacked

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71. Once this DU post came to light, it was pretty obvious that there was no hack

https://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=221x48020





It is a same day post (within 3 hours) of her blog post. This is also one of the posts that Joy said was "fake", that its was from a hack.

Look at the dates of her blog entry and then when Ian David posted it on DU. Same day, and his post was at 2:18 PM in the afternoon

Ian Davids time stamp on DU

Tue Feb-06-07 02:18 PM
Original message




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here is the timestamp from Joy's Blog post

posted by jreid at 11:08 am





3 hours difference same day


Joy's Blog was a small local South Florida operation back then. This is 7 plus years before she went national on MSNBC (in 2014)

many of her articles got no comments back then


She didn't even write that many a day, she certainly would have noticed when she looked at her page if some had added a totally bogus big post, it wasn't like she was pumping up dozens of posts a day


here is an archive of that exact blog entry

compare it to one that Ian David posted on DU 3 hours later, same day Feb 6, 2007.

THEY MATCH exactly

https://archive.is/pMYl8

That archive page ignores robots.txt script blocking that Reid's tean put up after the December drama, the one where she admitted she made the posts.Her team tried to then get Internet Archive to remove all her archives, and they refused, so she then has her tech team put up the blocking scripts from her end.

But there are many archive sites out there, such as this one I posted. If you wanted to put up a fake page years after the fact, you would have to go in to hundreds of different URL's real time, hack the servers and carefully enter in the exact same thing every time, AND hack EVERY board or news article or any other site that posted you entry. You would NEVER be able to find them all.

If someone had done it real time in the beginning of 2007 (and again the number of people who followed a local Florida blog was microscopic compared to her followers now), she would have instantly noticed as it is HER BLOG and she would see the bogus post the next time she looked at it her website. Not only that but there are MULTIPLE posts from back then that contain causal homophobia. And the only way they could have been hacked is back in 2007 etc, whenever they where posted, as she would have seen them every time she looked at her own site.

That is why the DU post and its timestamp PROVES no hack, as it shows within 3 hours the same thing as the actual blog, a blog that was not visited much nor had a lot of posts (in the grand scheme of the internet).

screenshot made by the archive

https://archive.is/pMYl8/image

and my own snapshots from the archive at https://archive.is/pMYl8

I had to make multiple screenshots because she added all sorts of media that is now dead links, as it is from 2007. It will not fit all on just one screen. The now dead links are another massive sign that it is real, as if it was hacked recently, those links would be impossible to find.


look at the entire thing https://archive.is/pMYl8

here are snaps










here are all the archives that that archive site took of her blog

you can see for yourself all I have stated is factual

that DU post made 3 hours later, same day, is a big nail nail in the coffin so to speak


https://archive.is/blog.reidreport.com


Now, this all said, I truly believe she has evolved and I, as a LGBTQ woman of colour, accept her apology. I think she is a vital ally and source to fight RW scum like Trump. She also isnt afraid to call out Dems when they vote for RW shit like that horrid repeal of key parts of Dodd-Frank and hold people like Bernie Sanders accountable.

But I do think she made a big mistake by not just doing exactly what she did in December, just admit she made mistakes long ago, apologise again, and move on. It all would have blown over. BUT, now that she has thrown up this ludicrous (IMHO) and ever-changing (first she said Internet Archive was hacked, they said no, so then she said it happened on HER servers, then changed it to screen shots were fake, now she admits she cannot find any evidence of hacking at all) story of "hacks" etc, and has gotten the biggest names in the US media (NYT, WaPo, dozens of others, etc etc etc) to basically completely be either hyper sceptical or flat out say it isn't true, she has made it a lot tougher on herself and has hurt her credibility. Hopefully she can recover.