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Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by ohyoutravel »

upheaval7276 wrote: post #248
ohyoutravel wrote: post #244

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Major public figure who is currently in a position of power in the USA. That’s bad news because it reveals sensitive details which may lead to their further compromise. Imagine you’re compromised by a corrupt administration with pics of CSAM or something already, now imagine a foreign actor also having compromised you. It’s a sticky situation.

Yes, that's all true, all potential issues in theory. I'm still not seeing why this points to or supports the (valid) claim of incompetence in the FBI. That seems to be the angle most posters in this thread are taking, and it seems...misguided to me. Tilting at windmills. Let's call out the admin for their real failings, not nonsense like this. Getting your gmail account hacked does not reflect on you as a profession…

Leaking one’s credentials to sensitive personal repositories of information is a “real failing” lol, how could one think any differently? I would be mortified and immediately rectify the situation.

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Post by Fricken »

trhway wrote: post #212
ToucanLoucan wrote: post #211

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“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ~Hannah Arendt

i'm from USSR, so pretty familiar with it. The issue here is whether it is a fluke, or the world is really going into new phase where totalitarianism and authoritarianism are going to become dominating state of affairs. For example many attribute rise of totalitarianism back then in 20th century to the power of broadcasting radio and "formation of mass society". We have a similarly transformative factor now - social…

Authoritarianism is a spectrum and all states are on it. We all have brain slugs now, it was voluntary. We'll be going back to that old time religion, but with a new twist. With AI every man will, in a much more literal way, be able to have an ongoing private conversation with god. And you won't need money or the government anymore. God has a special plan for you and you follow it.

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Post by scotty79 »

thereisnospork wrote: post #236
conductr wrote: post #218

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If Idiocracy was made today, I wonder how far in the future they’d place it. In 2006, they thought 500 years which seems optimistic now.

Future? I'm thinking a Borat style mockumentary in the present.

I think it's the future of entertainment. Ruthlessly mocking idiots in power (and others). To be honest it's the present of some entertainment.

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Post by detourdog »

longislandguido wrote: post #257
jameson wrote: post #233

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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.

Almost all phishing attempts at my domain are from google. Many Norton subscription bills for around $350. I report every single one to google. I can’t believe they aren’t using there AI to figure this out.

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Post by razingeden »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #252
jonathanstrange wrote: post #219

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This wouldn't have happened if Kash Patel used Emacs, that's right.

I think it's a pretty cynical take that an Emacs user will never be made FBI director.

are you saying someone can’t key information into an NCIC profile with EMacs? Ha! furious typing

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Post by wmf »

upheaval7276 wrote: post #227

I'm no fan of this administration, at all, but this seems like a big fat nothingburger. They hacked a personal gmail account, not a government account, not government infra. Why is this not a failing of Google instead of the government? And surely the hackers would have eagerly released anything damning, but nothing damning seems to exist. What am i missing here?

People are concerned because every government official uses their personal email for work.

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Post by OhMeadhbh »

dogemaster2025 wrote: post #226
add-sub-mul-div wrote: post #215

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I don't think people appreciate enough how much it mattered that Trump was a celebrity buffoon/reality show personality for decades before "politics". Stupid people eat that up. Other Trumpy candidates have not been able to reproduce his success. Let's not assume this is the new normal.

I don’t think people appreciate enough how much it mattered that Trump was the only candidate explicitly saying they were working to Make America Great Again, as opposed to foreign interests or illegals.

I recently read one of the best descriptions of why middle of the road, non wealthy voters went for Trump in the book "The King in Orange," a book about the "magickal" aspects of the 2016 campaign by John Michael Greer, the former (?) head of the Ancient Order of Druids in America.

I expect cogent commentary about ritual magick by a Druid, but was a little surprised to find well laid out political commentary. I guess that was a failure of my imagination. Worth a read, even if you consider the topic bollocks. Greer sticks mostly to psychology and musings about using metaphor to engineer the mass imagination. Much less woo-woo than you might expect.

I mention it in support of the previous poster's commentary about the Dems messaging being irrelevant to most Americans. Seemed to me middle America doesn't love Trump as much as they weren't able to hear Harris address any issues they were concerned about.

I can recommend The King in Orange, What's the Matter with Kansas and Metaphors We Live By for more musings about such things.

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Post by upheaval7276 »

pkilgore wrote: post #260
upheaval7276 wrote: post #255

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we don't even know how it was compromised. was his password "password", or did the hackers exploit a gmail/google vulnerability?

are you suggesting the former is not a demonstration of a shocking lack of competency?

I'm suggesting we don't know how the account was hacked, which is true. could be due to incompetence or not. i don't know, nor do you
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