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Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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> to Russians I don't understand why they say "to Russians" or "to the Russians" instead of "to Russian intelligence". It's like being Russian is the crime itself. They wouldn't write "tried to sell the computer to Jews".

The wonderful comedic film "Burn After Reading" immediately comes to mind.

Yes! I thought the same thing. Such a great film.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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The fed were tipped off by an ex. The most telling part of the terrorist attack on the capital is how many family members, coworkers, and acquaintances couldn’t wait to turn them in. There was a story this morning about a wife turning in her husband for threatening to shoot their children if the children “snitched.” https://www.thedailybeast.com/capitol-rioter-guy-reffitt-thr...

The Venn diagram of terrorists and domestic abusers is a circle, or near enough as makes no difference.

That ... doesn't seem quite right, no.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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There's a good chance she may have committed some light treason.

Legally speaking: Breaking and entering a federal government building, stealing information, conspiring with a foreign national to sell the information to a foreign state intelligence service. I think life sentences have been handed out for smaller forms of treason...

I think it would technically be espionage rather than treason, but still a very serious crime.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or even small organizations, or individuals. Our phones storage is uniformly encrypted by default now and have been for several years. There's absolutely no reason that Windows installs and Linux distros should offer unencrypted storage as anything but a hidden option for experts. That said: there's no particular reason to think this laptop wasn't encrypted.

> There's absolutely no reason that Windows installs and Linux distros should offer unencrypted storage as anything but a hidden option for experts. People unfortunately have been coddled by consumerism, or are coddled by job titles like "director" and "officer", and expect to be able to get passwords reset and access recovered by someone if they forget. The correct way to do disk encryption is to not store the passw…

>People ... expect to be able to get passwords reset

I think it works like that with Apple. When I turned on encryption it says do you want the key stored in the icloud thing and presumably in a locked out situation I get on to Apple to get it. Seems quite a good solution.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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Twitter tells me: "This is not available to you." Anyone know why? Was it deleted? Suspended? Region locked (I'm in Canada).

With my ad and tracking blocking, I get that all the time. Try refreshing the page when you see that message.

Always goes away the second time for me.

Re: Woman may have tried to sell Pelosi computer device to Russians, FBI says

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I'm going to hazard a guess and posit that Speaker Pelosi uses something like a Yubikey. The Obama campaigns used them [1]. They weren't invented yesterday. Speaker Pelosi takes security very seriously.

[1] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-campaign-used-security-ke...

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