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Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

#41

Iran... if you're listening... We'd love to see all of those Epstein files.

Is this a reference to

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-asked-russia-to-...

> "Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing, I think you will probably be rewarded mightily by our press," Trump said in a July 27, 2016 news conference.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

#42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is actually the opposite of the correct conclusion—just look how influential Patreus cheating on his wife was ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal ). I seriously doubt that Kash Patel doesn't have a bunch of skeletons to dust off and show the world; the man is a weirdo (much like the rest of the administration). EDIT: I actually misread the comment; I think we're likely in agreement. My bad.

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Trump is currently in office ;)

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

#43

Interesting, and not all that implausible. The real test: his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA, amazon purchases, communications with friends / family. (good for HUMINT) But other than that, there shouldn't be anything in there which should make the news. It'll be interesting to see whether or not that bears out. If they wanted to maintain access, they certainly wouldn't celeb…

Surely we are currently clean on OPSEC. There couldn't be any precedent for government officials using private email servers for confidential information!

obligatory - that first famous private server was done because someone wanted a blackberry like Obama had, and was told no by NSA. Man that BB keyboard was good.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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post #24

I've been wondering if we'd see a cyber campaign emerge in this conflict. To my knowledge Iran seems to have pretty advanced cyber capabilities and increasingly fewer reasons to hold back. Gloves-off cyber war doesn't sound good to me. The US CISA already been cut back, has lost "virtually all of its top officials"^, doesn't have a permanent director, and is operating at a further reduced capacity because of the DHS…

> To my knowledge Iran seems to have pretty advanced cyber capabilities and increasingly fewer reasons to hold back.

Iran isn’t alone!! They are a quad along with China, Russia, and North Korea.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

#46

Interesting, and not all that implausible. The real test: his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA, amazon purchases, communications with friends / family. (good for HUMINT) But other than that, there shouldn't be anything in there which should make the news. It'll be interesting to see whether or not that bears out. If they wanted to maintain access, they certainly wouldn't celeb…

Those "should"s are doing a lot of heavy lifting.

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

#47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this is actually the opposite of the correct conclusion—just look how influential Patreus cheating on his wife was ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal ). I seriously doubt that Kash Patel doesn't have a bunch of skeletons to dust off and show the world; the man is a weirdo (much like the rest of the administration). EDIT: I actually misread the comment; I think we're likely in agreement. My bad.

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This simping is such a bad look. Why go to bat for a man who wouldn't piss on you to put out a fire? Act like a man jesus christ

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

#48

Interesting, and not all that implausible. The real test: his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA, amazon purchases, communications with friends / family. (good for HUMINT) But other than that, there shouldn't be anything in there which should make the news. It'll be interesting to see whether or not that bears out. If they wanted to maintain access, they certainly wouldn't celeb…

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Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

#49

Interesting, and not all that implausible. The real test: his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA, amazon purchases, communications with friends / family. (good for HUMINT) But other than that, there shouldn't be anything in there which should make the news. It'll be interesting to see whether or not that bears out. If they wanted to maintain access, they certainly wouldn't celeb…

>his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA

medical diagnoses can be incredibly useful in understanding past and future actions

>there shouldn't be anything damning to release. ie, there ought not to be if the director is acting professionally

that "if" is doing some heavy lifting given who we are discussing

Re: Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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post #24

I've been wondering if we'd see a cyber campaign emerge in this conflict. To my knowledge Iran seems to have pretty advanced cyber capabilities and increasingly fewer reasons to hold back. Gloves-off cyber war doesn't sound good to me. The US CISA already been cut back, has lost "virtually all of its top officials"^, doesn't have a permanent director, and is operating at a further reduced capacity because of the DHS…

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