Certainly the FBI and GMail having gaps in their operational information security isn't news.
I read the headline and first thought was seriously, that's it? Surely this is one of the least concerning things about the administration
Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email
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#272I'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?
How is this a failing of Google? They can't be blamed for users who fail to secure their own accounts.
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#273Earlier quoted context omitted.
you don't think that it's relevant and concerning that the director of the FBI didn't take operational security seriously enough that his account got compromised? even if they didn't get anything incriminating (which maybe they did and are going to blackmail him later) that show a shocking lack of competency for someone in that kind of position.
we don't even know how it was compromised. was his password "password", or did the hackers exploit a gmail/google vulnerability?
i think the facts of the matter are that a gmail vulnerability is on the very low likelihood kind of event. they wouldn't burn their insanely valuable vulnerability on showing how much of a fratboy kash is. the most likely possibility is that he either clicked on something dumb and gave access through phishing(really bad) or had a really weak password without 2fa(also really bad).
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#274Clowns, all the way down.
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#275Hegseth - Signal app Noem - habeas corpus definition she gave at the Congress hearing Kennedy Jr - vaccines and the rest of his view on medicine Now Patel's unhackable FBI. I think the world has changed, and i really need to update my expectations of what is new normal. It is like in tech when paradigm shift happens, and you're either go with the new paradigm or get irrelevant.
Don't forget "the files are on my desk" and many other classics.
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#276I'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?
Remember when this admin used a Signal group chat to coordinate an operation against Houthi forces in Yemen and left in some journalists. Do you think he cares care whether he sent an email with his gov email on a gov device or if he sent it with his personal email?
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#278A great many experts in the military, medicine, disaster relief, and cybersecurity { the list goes on } were fired. It's almost as if the nation were being weakened on purpose. Don't get mad, get Vlad. Or just prepare for the long-desired Rapture.[0] and which politicians seem to be working very hard to being about (the Apocalypse part, anyway) [0] https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/29/us/iran-israel-evangelicals-p... > Pro…
The Manchurian Candidate.
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#279Hegseth - Signal app Noem - habeas corpus definition she gave at the Congress hearing Kennedy Jr - vaccines and the rest of his view on medicine Now Patel's unhackable FBI. I think the world has changed, and i really need to update my expectations of what is new normal. It is like in tech when paradigm shift happens, and you're either go with the new paradigm or get irrelevant.
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.
We’re way beyond Idiocracy now, we left that timeline six years ago.
For all his flaws, Camacho was a good leader - he recognised there was a problem, knew he couldn’t fix it and actively rallied the world around the one person who could.
This bunch of dipshits expressly denigrated the experts, refused to take the slightest precaution to protect themselves and others from a deadly virus and caused hundreds of thousands of deaths.
And that’s not even thinking about the industrial levels of fuckery and bullshit they’ve perpetrated over the last year.
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#280It’s all fine since he didn’t use it for official business right, right…
The FBI just made a bounty to find who hacked family photos.
I am sure the FBI will do that for my family too right?
Or we’re more than family photos hacked?