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She said she dropped out of three different universities, as she was passionate about
learning, but did not enjoy the structure of a university course. Around 2004, she joined
Kaspersky Lab, a high-profile Russian cybersecurity firm. She left to set up her own
company, initially called Esage Lab (“I was thinking of something ‘sage’, as in a wizard or
a magician,” she said). Later, she changed its name to ZOR. Both names are on the US
sanctions list.
Shevchenko specialiizes in finding so-called “zero-days”, previously undisclosed software
bugs that could leave companies vulnerable. “We have not only searched for bugs but
exploited them, but only with the customer’s sanction,” she said. “She never hired anyone
she knew to have a criminal background for her companies.
“Shevchenko said she had been approached repeatedly by people she believed to be
from the Russian government. She insisted, however, that she had always rejected the
advances. She said she had not been threatened or intimidated as a result.
“A 2014 profile of Shevchenko in Russian Forbes magazine noted that she worked with
DialogNauka, a Russian company that listed among its clients the Russian ministry of
defence and parts of the security services. Questioned by the Guardian, she insisted that
none of her own work for DialogNauka “was even remotely possible to use as a nationstate
attacks supply”. Shevchenko said she had turned down plenty of offers of work on
ideological grounds: “I never work with douchebags. I only work with honest and open
people that I feel good about.” Asked directly if she had ever worked on a government
contract in any capacity, she answered “not that I know of”.
“Shevchenko said ZOR was closed more than a year ago, because it was difficult and
expensive to do the requisite public relations work required to drum up business. She
now works as a “one-man army”, she said. Shevchenko said she assumes it is “not
possible” for her to travel to the US now, and she does not particularly want to. On the
other hand, she allowed, there was apparently a certain cachet in being named as
someone who hacked a US election. “I have received a number of employment, business
partnership or collaboration offers” in the days since the sanctions list was released.”
Our comments about Alisa: She must be very smart to get a job at Kaspersky. But
thus far, there is no evidence either that she or Kaspersky are Russian spies.
Third, the report claims that a guy named Vladimir Zhirinovsky is a “pro-Kremlin
proxy” who opened a bottle of champagne and toasted Donald Trump on the night of the
election. Here is the problem. The election was called about 10 pm in the evening in the
US – or about 10 am in the morning Moscow time. Who would be drinking at 10 am in the
morning? Also, according to the Moscow Times, “Zhirinovsky is the same man who
traveled to Baghdad in 2003, ahead of the U.S. invasion, and delivered a drunken
tirade against President Bush, threatening to sink the United States under the
oceans, using secret Russian gravitational weapons.”
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/american-unintelligence-on-russia-op-ed-56746
This guy seems to have a drinking problem which is why he no longer has much
influence in Moscow. But somehow, US Intelligence Agencies have concluded that he is
the guy who leaked documents to Wikileaks and stole the US election – despite the fact
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