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Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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

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Post by jimbob45 »

weaksauce wrote: post #251
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?

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.

Operational security doesn’t apply to personal accounts, no? Otherwise, they wouldn’t be personal.

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Post by bryanrasmussen »

razingeden wrote: post #265
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #252

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

aw damn, you're keying my information into an NCIC profile right now aren't you!!?

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Post by pdpi »

leereeves wrote: post #242
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's possible it was breached in 2022 and they've held on to it until now.

It's also possible that he maintained security by not putting anything worth hacking on gmail.

Security in depth. Even if you think you don't have anything particularly valuable in there, you still protect it as if you did.

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Post by hackable_sand »

genxy wrote: post #338
gotwaz wrote: post #315

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"Competent" people are not valuable and over rated because they will flake out in such jobs when the group holds them responsible for all sorts of things they have no control over. They are the first people who recognize lumits. Their own, their teams and the systems. But people dont want to hear about Limits. They want saviors and messaihs. They want fantasy and magic. So the system runs not optimized for efficiency…

Over 90% of my managers got into their positions by either stabbing someone in the back, or walking across their dead body.

That's how hierarchies work. It's an circumstantial constraint. Some people just keep trying to make hierarchies permanent for whatever reason.

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Post by stickfigure »

leereeves wrote: post #242
kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's possible it was breached in 2022 and they've held on to it until now.

It's also possible that he maintained security by not putting anything worth hacking on gmail.

It is also possible he is an idiot. There are few valuable sentences that begin with "it is possible..."

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Post by kjellsbells »

themafia wrote: post #333
sv123 wrote: post #221

Clowns, all the way down.

It always will be. The FBI is scandal prone and a stranger to success. I'm not entirely sure a large federal apparatus is needed anymore. It maybe made sense when local police were poorly trained and psychics were seen as credible investigative tools, but, I think we're well past that. I think it should be chopped into 50 pieces and handed over to the states to operate. A small coordinating office is all that should…

Username checks out, I guess!

Seriously though I'm not so sanguine about local forces. Assuming the local PD is well trained seems like a big if, to say nothing of the risk of localized pressure or corruption. Eg would the local sheriff of a county with a very large employer be able to effectively investigate and bring charges against it? Being able to bring in federal LE brings a certain impartiality to those sorts of cases.

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Post by stingraycharles »

acuozzo wrote: post #195
snovymgodym wrote: post #163

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> I feel sorry for his mother. In all likelihood his upbringing is what made him this way.

You think so? Peers, in my experience, have an even greater impact, especially between the ages of 10 and 25.

And it’s your upbringing that has the biggest impact on who your peers will become.
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