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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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mikeyouse wrote: post #93
nixon_why69 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ( h…

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

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Post by ffsm8 »

mattbis wrote: post #107
ffsm8 wrote: post #105

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Changing a password that's randomly generated is security theatre. It doesn't meaningfully improve security Also it's entirely possible they only compromised a honeypot. Considering their track record, that's actually more likely tbh

Honeypot sure I didn't think of that.. But I was under the impression the FBI confirmed it ? So we can rule it out. Making the password impossible to guess - how could that not be? Since then you know you have a breach, as its randomised gibberish, if you then get the 2nd device asking " is this you trying to login " you can definitely know you are compromised.... I can't see your logic here, that isn't " theatre " ?…

Why would they willingly destroy their successful honeypot if the other party announced they've access to it?

I haven't seen what's in it either though, but I would not rule it out yet, especially when the FBI is involved - which love those tactics

When you're compromised, changing the password is obviously not theatre - but changing a password which is randomly generated with enough entropy is what's pointless theatre. A secure password is secure, esp. If you're already using a password manager then the act of changing isn't meaningfully increasing your security (unless you're aware that your password was compromised) because the way to compromise it is what...? Having a keylogger on a device you logged in on? Then the changed password will be just as compromised

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

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Post by nixon_why69 »

mikeyouse wrote: post #93
nixon_why69 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ( h…

I'm not defending or advocating for the guy, just saying, if you're gonna be a piece of shit, he seems more relatable than the rest of them.

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

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Post by limagnolia »

Painsawman123 wrote: post #64
mandeepj wrote: post #44

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> 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

Russia and North Korea are obviously doing so, but I haven't seen any direct evidence that China is providing intelligence support to Iran, do you have any links? It is certainly plausible, China would love to see Russia tied up in Ukraine and the US tied up in Iran.

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

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Post by redanddead »

Jare wrote: post #26
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 don't know, these days skeletons seem to be treated as funny decoration and we're in a permanent state of Halloween.

Sullying Halloween's good name

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

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Post by sirbutters »

pixl97 wrote: post #118

>“This isn’t an FBI compromise — it’s someone’s personal junk drawer,” he said. Eh, with how many people in the current administration seem to use out of band channels to communicate very important things who knows what else they located.

Most incompetent administration in the modern era.
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