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Agreed. Also this in the post>The hacker contacted The Post last week to brag about his exploits, which include posting some of the stolen documents and a portion of Brennan’s contact list on Twitter. Like seriously, it is like begging to be apprehended.
Once you've hacked the CIA it's probably easier to go public, so that you know the CIA probably won't just kill you.
It's stupid, man, it's universally stupid.
So they claim he had classified docs in his AOL account. Why didn't the person(s) emailing these docs to Brennan's AOL account raise a question?
Stories like these make me shudder thinking about the times I may have, at some point, included a document with personal information in an email, such as to a prospective landlord for verification. Even if I were able to keep my email account reasonably secure...I'm pretty sure all the recipients of my email aren't as wary, or regularly delete old received emails with attachments that they've collected over the _decade_.
Although in Mr. Brennan's case, he doesn't have that same excuse. It may have been reasonably safe (for a layperson in IT) to send his application file over aol.com's servers, but not to keep a copy of it in his Sent box. Even a novice at cybersecurity should realize the problem of keeping digital files around on an online server...it's not much different than keeping files in a file cabinet and expecting that file cabinet never to be compromised.
I'm less concerned about the hacker, and more concerned that the Director of the CIA not only has an aol.com email account but also uses that account to transmit sensitive information. I'm not just saying this to be a jerk - this should be grounds for immediate termination of his employment. This is clearly a guy who shows poor judgement with respect to the management of sensitive material. Also, from the article: "[…
So they claim he had classified docs in his AOL account. Why didn't the person(s) emailing these docs to Brennan's AOL account raise a question?
So they claim he had classified docs in his AOL account. Why didn't the person(s) emailing these docs to Brennan's AOL account raise a question?
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Once you've hacked the CIA it's probably easier to go public, so that you know the CIA probably won't just kill you.
But don't underestimate the power of teenage male bravado.
I guess you are right. I clicked the twitter name on the post and he has indeed posted the documents and is daring them. Just unreal.
A bit of a naive question but can someone answer this for me? To be a CIA Director, isn't it a requirement to have some sort of a technical background that way whoever is in the role is able to anticipate and always be a step head when it comes to these sort of problems?
I guess they don't look at themselves very closely. Otherwise, the biggest red flag should have been the fact that the CIA director has AN AOL ACCOUNT.