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Re: Clinton Circle

#11

Post by ihsw »

nodesocket wrote: post #8

Sorry if I am being naive, but who is making sure these e-mails don't have sensitive information in them? For example, password reset requests or I don't know... perhaps national security information.

Podesta, Clinton's campaign manager, kept sent his password in plaintext. It was found among the initial Wikileaks dumps and then several of his accounts (both personal and professional) were compromised, which lead to more leaks.

There definitely is sensitive information in there, but to answer your question: I'm sure some of it is being screened, but obviously not all of it.

Re: Clinton Circle

#13

Post by nodesocket »

ihsw wrote: post #11
nodesocket wrote: post #8

Sorry if I am being naive, but who is making sure these e-mails don't have sensitive information in them? For example, password reset requests or I don't know... perhaps national security information.

Podesta, Clinton's campaign manager, kept sent his password in plaintext. It was found among the initial Wikileaks dumps and then several of his accounts (both personal and professional) were compromised, which lead to more leaks. There definitely is sensitive information in there, but to answer your question: I'm sure some of it is being screened, but obviously not all of it.

For me, it is not acceptable to leak sensitive information about high rank political figures. --bring on the downvotes--

Re: Clinton Circle

#14

Post by cndkxjsnf »

nodesocket wrote: post #13
ihsw wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Podesta, Clinton's campaign manager, kept sent his password in plaintext. It was found among the initial Wikileaks dumps and then several of his accounts (both personal and professional) were compromised, which lead to more leaks. There definitely is sensitive information in there, but to answer your question: I'm sure some of it is being screened, but obviously not all of it.

For me, it is not acceptable to leak sensitive information about high rank political figures. --bring on the downvotes--

So I see you're a big fan of Richard Nixon.

Re: Clinton Circle

#15

Post by oh_sigh »

nodesocket wrote: post #13
ihsw wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Podesta, Clinton's campaign manager, kept sent his password in plaintext. It was found among the initial Wikileaks dumps and then several of his accounts (both personal and professional) were compromised, which lead to more leaks. There definitely is sensitive information in there, but to answer your question: I'm sure some of it is being screened, but obviously not all of it.

For me, it is not acceptable to leak sensitive information about high rank political figures. --bring on the downvotes--

No one cares about your stance without what kind of logic you used to arrive at that stance. Please share why you feel this way and I will happily upvote you, even if I disagree with it.

Re: Clinton Circle

#16

Post by duaneb »

marricks wrote: post #5

Interesting how they chose not to actually show any emails by themselves, just through wikileaks iframes... perhaps a CYA thing.

This is the institution that pressed hacking charges against a kid scraping JSTOR from a broom closet.... they seem very protective of content sourced via their brand.

Re: Clinton Circle

#17

Post by meritt »

nodesocket wrote: post #8

Sorry if I am being naive, but who is making sure these e-mails don't have sensitive information in them? For example, password reset requests or I don't know... perhaps national security information.

Nobody. WikiLeaks is playing politics and doling them out as they see fit.

Re: Clinton Circle

#18

Post by labster »

akhilcacharya wrote: post #12
chronic6l wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would "by Berkeley" make you feel better?

No, but "by Clemson" might. For an industry that claims to be a pure meritocracy I'd really love it if it were practiced more with regard to schools.

We are a meritocracy in the original sense of the word: those given the most merits make the rules.

Re: Clinton Circle

#19

Post by marricks »

nodesocket wrote: post #8

Sorry if I am being naive, but who is making sure these e-mails don't have sensitive information in them? For example, password reset requests or I don't know... perhaps national security information.

Uh, the emails were already leaked, hiding them here doesn't stop that leak... Anyone can get them online at wikileaks. People running the campaign had weeks at this point to reset passwords and warn people.

Re: Clinton Circle

#20

Post by yellowapple »

Is hrod17@clintonemail.com seriously the best Hillary goddamn Clinton can do? Not hillary@clintonemail.com? What the hell is the 17 for?

Even my grandparents have more coherent email addresses, and they don't even have a whole domain effectively for themselves.

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