Billie Winner-Davis, Reality Winner's mother, told Business Insider on Tuesday that President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, is attempting legal representation to aid the former Air Force language analyst contractor and Kingsville native Reality Winner with her case.
Winner pleaded guilty in 2018 to leaking classified National Security Agency information on Russia's alleged efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. She was found guilty of violating the U.S. Espionage Act and sentenced to five years in prison at the Federal Medical Center-Carswell in Fort Worth, Texas.
In 2016 following her separation from six years of active duty, Winner was hired by Pluribus International Corporation under an NSA contract to work out of Fort Gordon, Georgia.
According to ABC News, Winner printed a classified report detailing how Russian hackers allegedly “executed cyber espionage operations” on local election systems and mailed the documents to The Intercept.
She was arrested on June 3, 2017.
Amazing! Thank you. My daughter Reality Leigh Winner is yet another victim of this admin. Doing hard time for bringing the truth to light. #FreeRealityWinnerhttps://t.co/wU0sg3LeRs
Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to campaign violations and tax fraud in 2018, began serving his sentence in May 2019 at the federal penitentiary in Otisville, New York.
He has been under house arrest since July over coronavirus concerns.
Military.com stated that Reality’s mother sent a Twitter message that said “Cohen has asked another attorney to look at the case and for opportunities to help.”
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Hackers Cause Physical Harm To Epilepsy Viewers (Video)
April 22, 2008
On March 23, the Epilepsy Foundation's Web site, www.epilepsyfoundation.org, was hacked by someone who apparently had no regard for people's safety.
Epilepsy Website Hacked The Epilepsy Foundation website was recently hacked with harmful images that caused suffering to some epileptic viewers.
In what could be the first case of causing actual bodily harm via the internet, hackers have attacked the website of US charity Epilepsy Foundation by posting flashing images on to its forum pages.
Upon learning of the attack the Epilepsy Foundation closed the forum down, purged the offending images from the site and ramped up security. However, the attack did cause some adverse reactions from users.
"We are seeing people affected," Ken Lowenberg, a senior director at Epilepsy Foundation told Wired magazine. "It's fortunately only a handful. It's possible that people are just not reporting yet – people affected by it may not be coming back to the forum so fast."
It’s reported that the hackers initially used script to post hundreds of messages embedded with flashing GIF images. The attackers then switched to using JavaScript to redirect forum users to a page with a more complex image, designed to trigger seizures in both photosensitive and pattern-sensitive epileptics.
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