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Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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the sensible middle of the road between clowns on the left and the jokers on the right.

…here I am stuck in the middle with you… ♪

flicks open a straight razor

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Clowns, all the way down.

It always will be. The FBI is scandal prone and a stranger to success. I'm not entirely sure a large federal apparatus is needed anymore. It maybe made sense when local police were poorly trained and psychics were seen as credible investigative tools, but, I think we're well past that. I think it should be chopped into 50 pieces and handed over to the states to operate. A small coordinating office is all that should be left.

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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.

Meanwhile have a complaint volume of more than 0.1% and they'll consider you extremely suspicious and start actively interfering with your deliveries.

Then you get into the forgotten early 2000s era google "postmaster tools" to try to poke through the chicken entrails to divine the nature of your issue.

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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.

You know, thats really my main takeaway from all this. Once you really boil it down

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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

No, I’m convinced the one thing that Trump wants to do is to launch a nuke before he dies. That’s what he wants his legacy to be. and his name everywhere.

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Its both dumber and more dangerous than that. Competent people are not valuable to governments that value loyalty more than competence.

"Competent" people are not valuable and over rated because they will flake out in such jobs when the group holds them responsible for all sorts of things they have no control over. They are the first people who recognize lumits. Their own, their teams and the systems. But people dont want to hear about Limits. They want saviors and messaihs. They want fantasy and magic. So the system runs not optimized for efficiency…

Over 90% of my managers got into their positions by either stabbing someone in the back, or walking across their dead body.

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We’re way beyond Idiocracy now, we left that timeline six years ago. For all his flaws, Camacho was a good leader - he recognised there was a problem, knew he couldn’t fix it and actively rallied the world around the one person who could. This bunch of dipshits expressly denigrated the experts, refused to take the slightest precaution to protect themselves and others from a deadly virus and caused hundreds of thousan…

Camacho is aspirational at this point. I would have a lot of sympathy for someone trying to do the right thing but unaware what that is.

Go away, 'batin'!

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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

No. DRAFT ICE!

  • They are already "trained" (in random violence against civilians. Checks one box) 
  • Bonespur "victims" have already been weeded out.  
  • They are already government employees and must go where assigned. (saves TONS of paperwork)  
  • They already have weapons, and unspent budget money.  
  • They already have swell masks to protect from radioactive dust that bombing reactors creates, and (this is big)  
  • Their kill to loss ratio is infinite.  
Oh, and ...

  • It's them or Barron.
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