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Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

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What's the point of comments like this? Do you honestly not believe that Russia enlists hackers to poke at the seams in the US?

The point is to show how absurd the left has become with their xenophobia towards Russians.

It's not xenophobia when their legal system incentivizes hacking foreigners and hacks just happen to keep popping up from Russia. Nor is pointing out blatantly obvious trends "left".

Re: Email from FBI Looks Odd

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If you can send email from the FBI then you also have a get out of jail free card for any crime. Seems like a bad use of this access.

I don't see how sending an email from the FBI gives you a get out of jail free card.

Probably not a literal get out of jail free card, but it gives you a lot of options to impede the investigation.

From what I can tell, investigations are comprised of a large network of loosely connected groups that need to coordinate to win.

The game is to use it to interrupt communications between loosely affiliated parties in the investigation. You're not going to convince the director of the FBI to drop it, but you probably could wreak havoc on the investigation by sending emails allegedly from the FBI to the labs, local law enforcement, etc. Don't tell them to drop it, just redirect them to something less useful. "Oh, we don't need those reports right now, prioritize analyzing ". Try to get local PD to go knocking on doors or something that won't help, but isn't too obviously unhelpful.

You could also try to make the various groups mad at each other to reduce cohesion.

It's probably not going to keep you out of jail, but it buys you some time.

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