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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

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Post by close04 »

throwaway27448 wrote: post #14
everdrive wrote: post #2

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…

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.

> look how influential Patreus cheating on his wife was

Those times have passed. I'll restate what I said in a comment some days ago:

>> 50 years ago the press was "impeaching" presidents. Today presidents are "impeaching" the press

The current strategy is "keep the outrage hose on full blast and eventually people get desensitized". It works.

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

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Post by megous »

mlmonkey wrote: post #20

> On their website, the hacker group Handala Hack Team said . . . . Anybody have a link? You know, for science ... Edit: Apparently, just last week the DoJ snatched their domains: https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-disrupts-i...

not all of them, search harder

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

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Post by Painsawman123 »

mandeepj wrote: post #44
macNchz wrote: 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.

that's the thing that people overlook the most in regards to this war.iran isn’t doing this on its own. Russia, China and north korea have been backing it from the start. they’re the ones helping with intel on US base locations across the Middle East, supplying drones, and working out strategies to drag things into a stalemate, plus whatever else iran needs along the way

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

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Post by mattbis »

I really want to know how they did it.. was it some terrible password?

He doesn't strike me as the kinda person even using a local password manager; like keepass.

Somebody needs to find this out.

I doubt it was gmail support... surely it could not be via his phone sim, and if he didn't have two factor on; That would be so funny.

I'm tempted to check out the dark web or the telegram, but i'd rather not do either of those things.

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

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Post by MyHonestOpinon »

treebeard901 wrote: post #58
throwaway27448 wrote: post #14

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.

Maybe the hackers will release information connecting Patel to the Noem and Lewandowski grift operations with govt contracts. Out of the four companies allowed to bid for the $220 million advertising contract, 3 were linked to Noem and Lewandowski and one to Patel. Im sure they are all doing it...

Well, if the president sets the example. What can you expect from the rest ?

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

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Post by conception »

rurp wrote: post #59
everdrive wrote: post #2

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…

Are we talking about the same FBI director here? Professional and competent are not how I would describe Kash Patel. Given his overt buffoonishness and the whole administration's disdain for procedure and expertise I would be shocked if he didn't have extremely inappropriate content in his inbox.

I believe “if” is doing a tremendous amount of work in parent’s comment.

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

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Post by guzfip »

flipgimble wrote: post #27
huggerl88 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I’d never support a repressive theocracy like the current Iranian regime and will not cheer on their propaganda operations. But let’s not confuse this Iran conflict with a legitimate war. Only congress can declare war and appropriate funds for a war. What we have is a rogue authoritarian executive that was incompetent enough to ignore military assessments and be manipulated by Netanyahu to strike. People should prote…

> What we have is a rogue authoritarian executive that was incompetent enough to ignore military assessments and be manipulated by Netanyahu to strike.

Yeah, except we’ve had that for the entirety of this century so far at least.

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Post by Zigurd »

embedding-shape wrote: post #19
huggerl88 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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Maybe we need to get rid of the concept of "enemy" and "ally", as seemingly those labels matter less and less as time goes on. Maybe one is the "enemy", and the others can be "less enemy" and "more enemy". So we're all enemies in reality, but some more enemies than others.

We had allies. Now they are treaty signatories asking themselves WTF?
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