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Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by chirau »

40four wrote: post #148
epolanski wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.…

The thing getting overlooked is all of the recent moves by Trump all lead back to China. Venezuela, Cuba, now Iran. These are all tentacles of China. The aggression against these 3 countries is not a coincidence. It’s a concerted and indirect attack on China in an attempt to weaken their subsidiaries. In the eyes of this administration, this is unpleasant, but necessary housekeeping that should have been done decades…

Iranian protesters were not calling for US interference. Let's be very clear about that. They were doing it for their own regime change, not some US imposition. What they think of the US or whether they are for this war or supposed regime change by the US is a totally different consideration.

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Post by TheGRS »

nullable_bool wrote: post #126

Gone are the days of the strong silent type running the roles of high power in the government. He is a real embarrassment and I feel sorry for his mother.

Gone only because current leadership kicked them all to the curb and told them to get out of Washington. Only loyal talking heads are wanted there now.

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Post by Muhammad523 »

penguin_booze wrote: post #167
paxys wrote: post #154

I feel like sending phishing emails for penis enlargement pills would take down half the current administration.

I know someone who will be interested in bigger hands--big beautiful hands.

I must say, i'd prefer if my hands remained the same size they are now. I dont want to lose my dexterity. Slightly offtopic

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Post by Loughla »

hypeatei wrote: post #25
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.

There is so much corruption and impropriety in this administration that skeletons don't matter anymore. Looking at what sunk officials in previous administrations provides a sense for just how far gone we are, but it's not an indicator of what future consequences will be.

Dan Quayle lost a serious bid because he couldn't spell potato.

Now look at where we're at. It really is wild. Right, wrong, or indifferent. How far we've shifted is absolutely wild.

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

fmajid wrote: post #169

GMail, like Apple, has specific enhanced security programs available for Politically Exposed Persons: https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/ The fact the Director of the FBI did not avail himself of this just reiterates how incompetent he is, in addition to being corrupt as heck.

It's possible it was breached in 2022 and they've held on to it until now.

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Post by BigTTYGothGF »

nullable_bool wrote: post #126

Gone are the days of the strong silent type running the roles of high power in the government. He is a real embarrassment and I feel sorry for his mother.

> Gone are the days of the strong silent type running the roles of high power in the government

What, like J.Edgar?

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Post by Muhammad523 »

smrtinsert wrote: post #140
mplanchard wrote: post #121

Link if you want to look: https://bsky.app/profile/ddosecrets.org/post/3mi2iokglyn2w

Is it legal to download something like this?

I dont know. I think downloading it with Tor would make it almost impossible to find out you downloaded this stuff anyway.

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

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Post by Betelbuddy »

fmajid wrote: post #169

GMail, like Apple, has specific enhanced security programs available for Politically Exposed Persons: https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/ The fact the Director of the FBI did not avail himself of this just reiterates how incompetent he is, in addition to being corrupt as heck.

It would be poetic justice to get the unredacted Epstein files via Iran...
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