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> a strong indication that devices belonging to him have been hacked in recent years. I like these kind of speculative articles. The click bait title states something with certanity than the first sentence clarifies that it is a speculation. I am not sure why we are falling for this click baity garbage, over and over.
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The first sentence is actually: > Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Government Efficiency have appeared in multiple public leaks from info-stealer malware Does not sound like clickbait for me.
The Ars Technica article is a bit confusing, if you click through to the original article, the case they make is much clearer. It's not that his credentials were found on Have I Been Pwned, which is the case for most people through no fault of their own. Instead, it's this: >But some of the datasets that Schutt is included in are much more concerning than normal data breaches because they're from stealer logs. Logs f…
> “At this point it's difficult not to suspect their awful 0pSec is a choice, and that there are specific people ( ahem cough cough the Russians cough ) to whom they're leaking secrets, with incompetence being merely plausible deniability for their true, treasonous agenda,” one critic wrote on Mastodon. Good point.
>Good point. Is it a good point? How so? Without any proof or arguments, to me that Mastodon comment is just your average brain rot social media conspiracy slop, especially when you examine the profile of the user who wrote it. Is this what journalism has now become? Parroting othe people's unhinged takes off social media, then upvoting it on HN?
> “At this point it's difficult not to suspect their awful 0pSec is a choice, and that there are specific people ( ahem cough cough the Russians cough ) to whom they're leaking secrets, with incompetence being merely plausible deniability for their true, treasonous agenda,” one critic wrote on Mastodon. Good point.
Honestly, stuff like this always makes me double check my own passwords and habits. Bunch of people just roll with the same easy setup for years and act surprised later. Gotta be careful, for real.
I've rolled with the same set up for years, what should I be doing instead?
Just use a unique complex root password for your password manager and check semi-regularly that it hasn't leaked on haveibeenpwnd.
Bonus points if your password manager automatically checks your stored passwords for leaks and scores them (eg. LastPass)
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Yeah, sure. Seeing a conspiracy and 4d chess in everything is a proof of having an enlightened mind. I work in this space and many actors, including nation state actors, are just incompetent. You may not believe me, that's OK.
They could have followed OpSec rules and still done their work. They chose not to do so. Their willful disobedience of the laws and OpSec might stem from multiple rationals, but it doesn't matter, because their actions are criminal and their negligence is beyond incompetence.
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Why don't people rise up against dictators in other parts of the world?
They always do - eventually
Related: https://www.newsweek.com/lisa-murkowski-donald-trump-retalia...
> a strong indication that devices belonging to him have been hacked in recent years. I like these kind of speculative articles. The click bait title states something with certanity than the first sentence clarifies that it is a speculation. I am not sure why we are falling for this click baity garbage, over and over.
The first sentence is actually: > Login credentials belonging to an employee at both the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Department of Government Efficiency have appeared in multiple public leaks from info-stealer malware Does not sound like clickbait for me.
My credentials are in the various leaks, like the Adobe one.
“Login credentials belonging to a Department of Defense contractor, who previously had worked at a government-sponsored media outlet, have appeared in multiple public credential leaks.”