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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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Read the article he wasn't the director of the FBI: "The stolen emails appear to date from around 2011 to 2022"

He's had over a year to enable it.

woah but even I haven't heard about that gmail feature...?

maybe google doesn't advertise about this much?

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

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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.

> The fact the Director of the FBI did not avail himself of this

well even I haven't seen/heard about this...

maybe google should advertise more?

(or... maybe I don't look important to google :( ?)

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

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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

What the actual hell did I just listen to. I really hope those kids were paid decently at this.

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

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That's not remotely true of his history.. he's a full on Jan-6er, deep into Q-Anon, he was involved in numerous serious scandals during the first Trump admin (Nunes Memo / Russiagate 'parallel' investigation: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/the-men... ), he has a number of sketchy moneymaking side-businesses, he was formerly living with a GOP megadonor 'Timeshare Tycoon' as roommates in Vegas ( h…

In the current environment, those are more expecteds than scandalous. Insider trades around government activities, same-sex behavior, overt racism for example might nudge the needle.

yeah that world-event gambling stuff gotta stop...

I mean, if I can send troops, I would bet on sending troops, wont I?

those gamblers who aren't Trump or any 'event initiators themselves' must be idiots of extraordinary quality

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

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Every now and then something happens that makes me wonder how the fuck America is number one, this being one of them.

America had the advantage of getting through WW2 relatively unscathed with lots of resources and intact infrastructure that it used to leverage against the reconstruction of Europe, Japan and the USSR and entrench its cultural and economic hegemony. Also the US essentially colonized the West with nuclear weapons under the guise of "Pax Americana" and making the dollar the reserve currency. That's really it. Not moral…

Plus huge amounts of braindrain from all over the world after WW2 (originally from Europe, but nowadays mainly from India and China).

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...

idk if you have to dig in and link to some amazon link...

this iran hack is a dismal propaganda failure...

nothing much to see I guess

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

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I think this is actually the opposite of the correct conclusion—just look how influential Patreus cheating on his wife was ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal ). I seriously doubt that Kash Patel doesn't have a bunch of skeletons to dust off and show the world; the man is a weirdo (much like the rest of the administration). EDIT: I actually misread the comment; I think we're likely in agreement. My bad.

Maybe the hackers will release information connecting Patel to the Noem and Lewandowski grift operations with govt contracts. Out of the four companies allowed to bid for the $220 million advertising contract, 3 were linked to Noem and Lewandowski and one to Patel. Im sure they are all doing it...

well if you're listing your hopes, not talking from what those hackers brought...

that just means the operation is a dismal failure -- nothing to see

this really undermines iran hackers' claims regarding 'big things' on trump administration

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

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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.

Read the article he wasn't the director of the FBI: "The stolen emails appear to date from around 2011 to 2022"

Are you suggesting that he was targeted before he became the director of the FBI? That seems unlikely. Once he became an obvious target surely the FBI should have secured his past, present and future communications. But I have no idea what protocols there are for such things, I'm just going off common sense, a notoriously sketchy starting point in the crazy world of the current US administration.

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

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The Russians certainly did interfere in the 2016 election. It was not bullshit.

Define "interfere". Be specific.

https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1373816/dl

https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/docu...

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

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post #355

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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".

Obviously government secrets need to be properly secured, but the personal info/photos of a top official can often be used for blackmail or for determining close friends that could be used to compromise Patel.
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