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

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It is also possible he is an idiot. There are few valuable sentences that begin with "it is possible..."

To be fair, he probably never once in his wildest dreams ever thought he would be head of the FBI. So he probably didn't think he needed the extra security, because what idiot would put him in charge of the world's largest spy network.

The FBI is not a spy network.

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

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Uh yeah, the locale in the link is specifically an Indian locale. If you find it it disorienting you can change en_in to en_us: https://landing.google.com/intl/en_us/advancedprotection/

The confusing thing is that googling "google advanced protection program" takes you to the en_in locale, even if you are in the US. An American has no clue what a crore is, so it is just an SEO failure on Google's part, which is funny. I didn't know there was an en_us equivalent to the page when I googled the topic.

> An American has no clue what a crore is

Really?

It's ten million of something, or (currently) about $11,000 US dollars in money.

You might also see "lakh" which is one hundred thousand of something, or about $1100 when it's used to describe money.

Now you know.

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

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I'd like to chime in and say that that Kash Patel, while completely unprofessional and incompetent, is way less of a weirdo than the rest of the administration. His scandals are all about shirking job responsibilities to party and sightsee. That's not great from the FBI director but its way more normal than the rest of them.

How can you way that with a straight face when this book exists. https://www.amazon.com/Plot-Against-King-Kash-Patel/dp/19555...

I did not know about that book, yeah that is cringe.

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Surely we are currently clean on OPSEC. There couldn't be any precedent for government officials using private email servers for confidential information!

obligatory - that first famous private server was done because someone wanted a blackberry like Obama had, and was told no by NSA. Man that BB keyboard was good.

That can't be the first one. Colin Powell used a personal email account during the GWB administration.

https://www.npr.org/2016/09/08/493133413/colin-powells-ways-...

Of course that pales in comparison with the practices of the GWB White House:

https://www.newsweek.com/2016/09/23/george-w-bush-white-hous...

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

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

Security in depth. Even if you think you don't have anything particularly valuable in there, you still protect it as if you did.

I'd rather he worry about securing government secrets, not spend one second worrying about "personal photographs of Patel sniffing and smoking cigars, riding in an antique convertible, and making a face while taking a picture of himself in the mirror with a large bottle of rum".

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>There are no mass rallies in support of the government. for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzaoHPWfkbE >No official sets of books, new unified history textbook. The "Talks about Important" school ideology lessons. Putin's propaganda article on Ukraine history (of course no relation to real history). >It's really not. There is no ideology. the foundational ideology of a fascist state is "interests of state t…

> for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzaoHPWfkbE That was electoral event with mandatory presence. This is nothing like Stalin's rallies where people themselves organized and attended, e.g.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eC6bzBTmmhU > new unified history textbook. The "Talks about Important" school ideology lessons. Putin's propaganda article on Ukraine history (of course no relation to real history). Yup.…

>Yes, and these TV channels now have less popularity than gardening channels.

Nobody knowing anything about Russia would make such a gross mistake like you've just made. It is like you'd be discussing physics problems while not knowing Newton's laws.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_in_Russia

"Television is the most popular medium in Russia, with 74% of the population watching national television channels routinely "

As it happens you just don't know what you're talking about. Most of the other things you said about Russia is similarly just incorrect. It looked strange to me how and what you've been arguing about, and in good faith i thought that we're discussing while each being well informed, and may be you just have different opinion/view and may be a bit less understanding and information than me. Well, it happens you just don't know basically anything about Russia. In such a case instead of arguing, you should just look for and consume the information, and not waste other people's time with uninformed arguments.

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

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post #381

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To be fair, he probably never once in his wildest dreams ever thought he would be head of the FBI. So he probably didn't think he needed the extra security, because what idiot would put him in charge of the world's largest spy network.

The FBI is not a spy network.

While I understand why you would say that, I think the way "spy network" was meant, was in the way that their job is to spy within the US. And given the resources at their disposition, and the size of the US, "worlds biggest spy network" is not wrong.

Also, they do head up the main counterintelligence effort of the US.

How the mighty have fallen.

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

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It is also possible he is an idiot. There are few valuable sentences that begin with "it is possible..."

To be fair, he probably never once in his wildest dreams ever thought he would be head of the FBI. So he probably didn't think he needed the extra security, because what idiot would put him in charge of the world's largest spy network.

World’s largest spy network? The FBI wouldn’t even be the largest spy network within the US.

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

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The confusing thing is that googling "google advanced protection program" takes you to the en_in locale, even if you are in the US. An American has no clue what a crore is, so it is just an SEO failure on Google's part, which is funny. I didn't know there was an en_us equivalent to the page when I googled the topic.

> An American has no clue what a crore is Really? It's ten million of something, or (currently) about $11,000 US dollars in money. You might also see "lakh" which is one hundred thousand of something, or about $1100 when it's used to describe money. Now you know.

> or (currently) about $11,000 US dollars $110,000 US dollars
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