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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 Forgeties79 »

throwa356262 wrote: post #12
embedding-shape wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. Aren't these the same people who apparently used Signal with a journalist in the chat, and had military conversations in…

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The facts simply do not bear this interpretation out. Investigations and heads rolling for a stage whisper? Nah

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

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Post by embedding-shape »

drnick1 wrote: post #53
embedding-shape wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. Aren't these the same people who apparently used Signal with a journalist in the chat, and had military conversations in…

> Aren't these the same people who apparently used Signal with a journalist in the chat, and had military conversations in that very chat? Signal is one of the most secure communication platforms out there, but it is obviously not immune to human error or social engineering.

Ok? Signal is not the topic of my comment really, nor has anyone claimed it's less secure than other chat apps.

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

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Post by mikeyouse »

nixon_why69 wrote: post #78
throwaway27448 wrote: post #14

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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.

I'd like to chime in and say that that Kash Patel, while completely unprofessional and incompetent, is way less of a weirdo than the rest of the administration. His scandals are all about shirking job responsibilities to party and sightsee. That's not great from the FBI director but its way more normal than the rest of them.

That's not remotely true of his history.. he's a full on Jan-6er, deep into Q-Anon, he was involved in numerous serious scandals during the first Trump admin (Nunes Memo / Russiagate 'parallel' investigation: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-men...), he has a number of sketchy moneymaking side-businesses, he was formerly living with a GOP megadonor 'Timeshare Tycoon' as roommates in Vegas (https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/trump-fbi-pick-kash...), he collected enemies' lists for Trump which resulted in firing of most of the Iran counterintel team right before we started launching attacks because they had the termerity to investigate why Trump was showing donors top-secret maps of Iran after he left office..

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

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Post by bookofjoe »

vessenes wrote: post #43
tencentshill wrote: post #3

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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.

Check this out (can't wait til mine arrives): https://www.clicks.tech/

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

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Post by _fat_santa »

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.

I was just reading a X thread that published some of the more notable things and overall it's pretty innocuous. The most "controversial" thing thus far is he took a trip to Cuba

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

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Post by bitwank »

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…

Yeah, the fact they announced it proves it’s nothing. I saw a picture of him smoking a cigar. We’ve already seen him drinking beer and acting foolish; probably enough to get you executed in Isfahan, but a giant nothining in the USA.

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

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Post by mikeyouse »

drnick1 wrote: post #53
embedding-shape wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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. Aren't these the same people who apparently used Signal with a journalist in the chat, and had military conversations in…

> Aren't these the same people who apparently used Signal with a journalist in the chat, and had military conversations in that very chat? Signal is one of the most secure communication platforms out there, but it is obviously not immune to human error or social engineering.

Also wildly illegal to use to conduct government business, especially confidential government business. (and yes the messages were auto-deleting and largely lost before anyone chimes in with technically they could be archived!)

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

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Post by Wololooo »

paxys wrote: post #36

A couple of DOGE teenagers were able to casually walk in and steal the entire country's social security and healthcare data (and probably more), and we were cheering them on. There is still no accountability, and it has probably already been sold to the highest bidder. So this would be the least surprising thing in the world.

We? I don't think I've seen anyone but the people absolutely not understanding the gravity of the situation were cheering on. And I'm not even American.

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

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Post by kstenerud »

epolanski wrote: post #79
Painsawman123 wrote: post #64

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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

Can you blame them? Iran is fighting for its own survival and has to find help where it can. If the US had an educated administration not composed by lap dogs they would've known that attacking Iran was going to be a terrible idea. Saddam did the same mistake in 1980. He thought that the Iranian Kurds, the political opponents, the Iranian Arabs, civilians were going to raise against the regime. None of this happened.…

Iran has been preparing for this war for 40 years. So has Israel. They will engage in a battle of supremacy over the Middle East. Both want the USA knocked out so that the Americans can't use their influence there anymore (both consider the USA a nuisance).

As soon as ground troops land in Iran, it's over for the USA. As it is, oil and goods shipping via the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea will be controlled by Iran for a very long time to come. All Iran has to do is withstand the pummeling, which it very likely will do. And they'll get plenty of support from China, since this plays into the South China Seas plan quite nicely as the USA moves carrier after carrier out of Asia.

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

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Post by nickburns »

mikeyouse wrote: post #97
drnick1 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Aren't these the same people who apparently used Signal with a journalist in the chat, and had military conversations in that very chat? Signal is one of the most secure communication platforms out there, but it is obviously not immune to human error or social engineering.

Also wildly illegal to use to conduct government business, especially confidential government business. (and yes the messages were auto-deleting and largely lost before anyone chimes in with technically they could be archived! )

It was a custom (presumably DoD-approved) build. And the story gets much better than that:

https://youtu.be/KFYyfrTIPQY&t=724

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