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Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by afpx »

k310 wrote: post #220

A great many experts in the military, medicine, disaster relief, and cybersecurity { the list goes on } were fired. It's almost as if the nation were being weakened on purpose. Don't get mad, get Vlad. Or just prepare for the long-desired Rapture.[0] and which politicians seem to be working very hard to being about (the Apocalypse part, anyway) [0] https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/29/us/iran-israel-evangelicals-p... > Pro…

For real, I wouldn't be shocked if Trump drafted everyone between 18 and 42, sent them all to Iran and then let Israel nuke Iran

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conductr wrote: post #218
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.

If Idiocracy was made today, I wonder how far in the future they’d place it. In 2006, they thought 500 years which seems optimistic now.

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Post by jeroenvlek »

upheaval7276 wrote: post #269
pkilgore wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I'm suggesting we don't know how the account was hacked, which is true. could be due to incompetence or not. i don't know, nor do you

True, but don't you think the FBI director should be held to higher standards of security hygiene than average people? Because I'm interpreting your tone as "it could happen to anyone". At some point the doubt is gone and there's no more benefit to give...

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Post by drfloyd51 »

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?

The director of the FBI should not be hacked in anyway ever for any reason.

If Gmail isn’t secure, he should be using something else.

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Post by blooalien »

upheaval7276 wrote: post #248
ohyoutravel wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 profession…

> "Getting your gmail account hacked does not reflect on you as a professional."

Doesn't it though? Especially when your profession involves the security of a nation and you can't even secure your own personal email account successfully?

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Post by drfloyd51 »

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?

Did the director have his email on a vulnerable server? Yes. Yes he did.

He should have known better.

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Post by reddozen »

dlev_pika wrote: post #232

I still can’t get over the fact that *Kash “Stay in my lane” Patel* is heading the FBI

you mean best selling children's book author Kash Patel who is desperately trying to scrub the internet of his music video[0] revising the Jan 6 insurrection

[0] https://youtu.be/TPF_e2E5F74

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Post by eclipticplane »

upheaval7276 wrote: post #248
ohyoutravel wrote: post #244

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 profession…

Shouldn't the FBI be protecting its own members -- especially its executives -- personal digital footprint, given the risk?

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Post by reddozen »

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?

True yeah. but uh anyway what about HILLARYS EMAILS we need to hear about those for the next 4 decades (no convictions despite "Lock Her Up" slogans for 5 years)
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