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

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Post by dessimus »

sysguest wrote: post #423
thephyber wrote: post #409

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They absolutely advertised it when it was released and every journalist knows about it. Kashmir Patel went out of his way to bypass security protocols for onboarding his political hires (for the US’s premiere domestic intelligence service!). If he wanted to be secure, all he had to do was not get in the way of the FBI’s natural processes. Also, this wouldn’t have happened if POTUS had hired someone with relevant FBI…

> POTUS had hired someone with relevant FBI experience instead of a political hack. well what percentage of highly-rated FBI people have actually enabled that feature? did FBI had some internal recommendation to enable that feature? FBI isn't NSA people...

What are you talking about? There's literally a Cyber Crimes[0] division of the FBI, and they run the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF). They probably know a thing or two about cyber security for high-ranked governmental officials.

[0] https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber

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

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Post by sysguest »

dessimus wrote: post #431
sysguest wrote: post #423

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> POTUS had hired someone with relevant FBI experience instead of a political hack. well what percentage of highly-rated FBI people have actually enabled that feature? did FBI had some internal recommendation to enable that feature? FBI isn't NSA people...

What are you talking about? There's literally a Cyber Crimes[0] division of the FBI, and they run the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF). They probably know a thing or two about cyber security for high-ranked governmental officials. [0] https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber

well by that logic, you can argue every top gov officials who didn't sign up for https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/ is incompetent, BECAUSE NSA IS part of the government ?

dude at least you should have brought an internal recommendation memo targeted all fbi people, not "but fbi has this and this division..."

lets say your college have astrophysics and other big departments. Are you really expert on those areas? Can you expect all highly-regarded professors to know most things from other departments? Do all 'competent' art professors know about astrophysics?

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

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Post by OJFord »

XorNot wrote: post #427
bobsmooth wrote: post #362

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the largest populations, and by extension, GDPs.

Also the only major economy which didn't fight World War 2 on its own territory.

Boy are there some angry Pearl Harbour comments incoming...

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

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Post by _heimdall »

bergoid wrote: post #429
phtrivier wrote: post #408

I'd feel obliged to add some "but, her emails..." reference. But it feels million years away. It's interesting to wonder how you get out of a spiral of incompetence and border-line (to be polite) corrumption at the highest level. Putting those people in charge was quick ; sure, a future administration could put them out quickly enough ; but how long will there be decently skilled people willing to take those position…

>I'd feel obliged to add some "but, her emails..." reference. HRC's secret email server and the leaked Kash Patel emails couldn't be more different. The first one is, in the words of a federal District of Columbia judge: "one of the gravest modern offenses to government transparency". [1] The second one is the malicious leaking of some private emails. These emails are frankly none of our business (unless you are part…

Not sure why this is being down voted.

There is a difference for sure between hosting your own email server and using it for official government communications and having your own personal email address used for personal communications.

The issue that seemed to completely disappear related to the use of Signal messenger for official white house communications seems more aligned to the email server issue. It was reported heavily at the time what the reporting requirements were and that they would have to submit the full chat histories within 30 days or something like that to stay within the law. I never heard whether that actually happened or not, the story just died.

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

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Post by dessimus »

sysguest wrote: post #432
dessimus wrote: post #431

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you talking about? There's literally a Cyber Crimes[0] division of the FBI, and they run the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF). They probably know a thing or two about cyber security for high-ranked governmental officials. [0] https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber

well by that logic, you can argue every top gov officials who didn't sign up for https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/ is incompetent, BECAUSE NSA IS part of the government ? dude at least you should have brought an internal recommendation memo targeted all fbi people, not "but fbi has this and this division..." lets say your college have astrophysics and other big departments. Are you really expe…

>well by that logic, you can argue every top gov officials who didn't sign up for https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/ is incompetent

I would, yes. Maybe a director in the Small Business Administration is lower on the target list of gov officials that would need to be concerned, but certainly anyone in the Departments of Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, State, Transportation, Treasury, and probably Nuclear Regulatory Commission, for sure.

> BECAUSE NSA IS part of the government ?

I don't know why multiple times in this comment section you allude to the NSA as being the only Federal agency tasked with any sort of cyber security responsibility, that is just plain wrong.

>you should have brought an internal recommendation memo targeted all fbi people

Yes, because I have access to any and all internal memos provided by the FBI to their employees. Internal memos are by their very nature are internal, so are generally not available for public consumption.

Also, your higher ed example is terrible, because as someone with a work history at a flagship state university's IT department, I can assure you that we provide all sorts of "memos", trainings, and tools to combat cybercrime, including special onboarding sessions to ensure new hires are protecting themselves and the university. We don't depend on the Art and Physics departments to make sure they keep their faculty 'in-line' following best practices in cyber security.

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

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Post by Amezarak »

austin-cheney wrote: post #430
throwaway27448 wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Like what? We have two presidents, including the current one, that took multiple trips to a pedophile island. What skeletons could be greater than accusations of punching a child in the face after they bit the dude’s penis during forced sodomy?

There is no credible evidence that either of the Presidents you alluded to visited "the island". It's amazing to see conspiracy theories promulgated on HN.

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

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Post by b00ty4breakfast »

phtrivier wrote: post #408

I'd feel obliged to add some "but, her emails..." reference. But it feels million years away. It's interesting to wonder how you get out of a spiral of incompetence and border-line (to be polite) corrumption at the highest level. Putting those people in charge was quick ; sure, a future administration could put them out quickly enough ; but how long will there be decently skilled people willing to take those position…

>It's interesting to wonder how you get out of a spiral of incompetence and border-line (to be polite) corrumption at the highest level.

you get out when the thing dies because these kinds of organizations always end the same way; competence is usurped by sycophancy and flattery until there's no one left to keep it functioning and it collapses under the weight of it's own bullshit.

hopefully, there will be something to salvage but the longer these folks are in charge the bigger the splash will be when they finally bottom out

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

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Post by cagenut »

phtrivier wrote: post #408

I'd feel obliged to add some "but, her emails..." reference. But it feels million years away. It's interesting to wonder how you get out of a spiral of incompetence and border-line (to be polite) corrumption at the highest level. Putting those people in charge was quick ; sure, a future administration could put them out quickly enough ; but how long will there be decently skilled people willing to take those position…

honestly, look internally. after the plane from qatar. after the son-in-law's real estate dealings. after the visible-to-everyone kalshi and oil futures bets frontrunning the administrations announcements. for you to still feel the need to frame things as "border-line (to be polite)" is, in and of itself, the perfect example of the overall problem.

take your inability to draw a clear-as-day conclusion and state it plainly and multiply it by another ~50M "centrists" who continue to believe that staying "not political" and "avoiding the news" is a viable strategy to just wait the problem out.

until the checked out cowards realize that strategy isn't going to work, things will continue to get worse.

"no politics" might as as well be the second maga slogan.

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

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Post by austin-cheney »

Amezarak wrote: post #436
austin-cheney wrote: post #430

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like what? We have two presidents, including the current one, that took multiple trips to a pedophile island. What skeletons could be greater than accusations of punching a child in the face after they bit the dude’s penis during forced sodomy?

There is no credible evidence that either of the Presidents you alluded to visited "the island". It's amazing to see conspiracy theories promulgated on HN.

There is lots of evidence that these two presidents were on the pedophile island many times, and one of their wives. That is well established.

There is no evidence released to the public directly linking those two men to specific sex acts by name. There is unnamed evidence released by the US DOJ specifically describing the assault I described in the prior comment. Again, none of this is theoretical, conspiracy, or conjecture. It’s in the documents released by the government that the government has confirmed as authentic.

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

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Post by defrost »

Amezarak wrote: post #436
austin-cheney wrote: post #430

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Like what? We have two presidents, including the current one, that took multiple trips to a pedophile island. What skeletons could be greater than accusations of punching a child in the face after they bit the dude’s penis during forced sodomy?

There is no credible evidence that either of the Presidents you alluded to visited "the island". It's amazing to see conspiracy theories promulgated on HN.

Remarkable that Epstein confined his pedophile activities to a single location.

No, wait:

  In 2008, Epstein reached a plea deal with prosecutors after the parents of a 14-year-old girl told Florida police that Epstein had molested their daughter at his Palm Beach home.
Hmm ... would that be the same Palm Beach home that Trump visited a good many times back when he was best of chums with Jeffrey and sending him the nude outline sketches?
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