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Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by ToucanLoucan »

epistasis wrote: post #234
trhway wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i'm from USSR, so pretty familiar with it. The issue here is whether it is a fluke, or the world is really going into new phase where totalitarianism and authoritarianism are going to become dominating state of affairs. For example many attribute rise of totalitarianism back then in 20th century to the power of broadcasting radio and "formation of mass society". We have a similarly transformative factor now - social…

The people of the US were converted into functional Putin-subservient Russians for the last election, and the media environment is not getting better, and in fact seems to be getting much worse. However there is revolt amongst a good chunk of the fractured coalition that barely brought Trump into office. Trump's Epstein coverup and sheltering of Ghislaine Maxwell took off the shine with a large number of people. The…

Unfortunately that leaves us with the Democrats who have shown time and again that they are unwilling or unable to confront this movement for what it is.

I'm frankly far more concerned that the Republicans lose next election, and we get Democrats in power who then prioritize "getting back to normal" and once again utterly failing to hold accountable the utter BUFFET of mediocre wannabe dictators who brought us to the brink already.

I also hope. But I'd be lying if I said I thought it was rational.

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

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Post by leereeves »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #176
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.

It's also possible that he maintained security by not putting anything worth hacking on gmail.

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Post by ohyoutravel »

upheaval7276 wrote: post #240
m_ke wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

just think of what could someone do if they got into your personal email account?

yes, and...?

Major public figure who is currently in a position of power in the USA. That’s bad news because it reveals sensitive details which may lead to their further compromise. Imagine you’re compromised by a corrupt administration with pics of CSAM or something already, now imagine a foreign actor also having compromised you. It’s a sticky situation.

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trhway wrote: post #209

Hegseth - Signal app Noem - habeas corpus definition she gave at the Congress hearing Kennedy Jr - vaccines and the rest of his view on medicine Now Patel's unhackable FBI. I think the world has changed, and i really need to update my expectations of what is new normal. It is like in tech when paradigm shift happens, and you're either go with the new paradigm or get irrelevant.

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

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Post by upheaval7276 »

ohyoutravel wrote: post #244
upheaval7276 wrote: post #240

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes, and...?

Major public figure who is currently in a position of power in the USA. That’s bad news because it reveals sensitive details which may lead to their further compromise. Imagine you’re compromised by a corrupt administration with pics of CSAM or something already, now imagine a foreign actor also having compromised you. It’s a sticky situation.

Yes, that's all true, all potential issues in theory. I'm still not seeing why this points to or supports the (valid) claim of incompetence in the FBI. That seems to be the angle most posters in this thread are taking, and it seems...misguided to me. Tilting at windmills. Let's call out the admin for their real failings, not nonsense like this. Getting your gmail account hacked does not reflect on you as a professional.
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