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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 weaksauce »

upheaval7276 wrote: post #227

I'm no fan of this administration, at all, but this seems like a big fat nothingburger. They hacked a personal gmail account, not a government account, not government infra. Why is this not a failing of Google instead of the government? And surely the hackers would have eagerly released anything damning, but nothing damning seems to exist. What am i missing here?

you don't think that it's relevant and concerning that the director of the FBI didn't take operational security seriously enough that his account got compromised? even if they didn't get anything incriminating (which maybe they did and are going to blackmail him later) that show a shocking lack of competency for someone in that kind of position.

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

jonathanstrange wrote: post #219
noosphr wrote: post #216

Imagine a world where gpg encryption was the norm instead of something that only works reliably in Emacs.

This wouldn't have happened if Kash Patel used Emacs, that's right.

I think it's a pretty cynical take that an Emacs user will never be made FBI director.

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

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Post by upheaval7276 »

weaksauce wrote: post #251
upheaval7276 wrote: post #227

I'm no fan of this administration, at all, but this seems like a big fat nothingburger. They hacked a personal gmail account, not a government account, not government infra. Why is this not a failing of Google instead of the government? And surely the hackers would have eagerly released anything damning, but nothing damning seems to exist. What am i missing here?

you don't think that it's relevant and concerning that the director of the FBI didn't take operational security seriously enough that his account got compromised? even if they didn't get anything incriminating (which maybe they did and are going to blackmail him later) that show a shocking lack of competency for someone in that kind of position.

we don't even know how it was compromised. was his password "password", or did the hackers exploit a gmail/google vulnerability?

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Post by longislandguido »

jameson wrote: post #233
sv123 wrote: post #221

Clowns, all the way down.

I wonder how many others are hacked but remain undiscovered

Considering 95% of spam that hits my inbox originates from compromised Gmail accounts, I'd say it's a few.

Because Google is too big to fail, all Gmail traffic is essentially whitelisted and they can't be bothered to do anything about it.

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Post by OhMeadhbh »

add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #215
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.

I don't think people appreciate enough how much it mattered that Trump was a celebrity buffoon/reality show personality for decades before "politics". Stupid people eat that up. Other Trumpy candidates have not been able to reproduce his success. Let's not assume this is the new normal.

I heard some of the best advice I ever heard at a Subgenius devival in Dallas in the 80s: "Act like a dumb-shit and they'll treat you like an equal." Every year that quip seems more and more relevant.

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Post by tomjakubowski »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #231
chao- wrote: post #210

From the administration that brought us "We are currently clean on OPSEC", I can't claim surprise. Disappointment, but not surprise. Nor, however, can I take the statements of malicious actors at face value. They hacked a personal email address, but that does not mean "the FBI’s security was nothing more than a joke".

These government officials are idiots. Jeffery Epstein, idiot. Why do even rich and powerful use easily hackable stuff? Lest us not forget bObama@yahoo.com or the IT guy who worked for the Clinton foundation who posted about bleachbit on recdit

Obama's old personal email was at defunct ISP ameritech.net, not Yahoo. I only remember because that's the ISP I grew up with.

Trump using yourefired as his Twitter password well into his 2016 campaign was amazing, too.

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

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Post by pkilgore »

upheaval7276 wrote: post #255
weaksauce wrote: post #251

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you don't think that it's relevant and concerning that the director of the FBI didn't take operational security seriously enough that his account got compromised? even if they didn't get anything incriminating (which maybe they did and are going to blackmail him later) that show a shocking lack of competency for someone in that kind of position.

we don't even know how it was compromised. was his password "password", or did the hackers exploit a gmail/google vulnerability?

are you suggesting the former is not a demonstration of a shocking lack of competency?
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