This kid is going to get charged with felony embarrassment of a federal official and it will probably hurt quite a bit.
But according to the government, you don't have expectation of privacy for any personal data stored in the "cloud"
Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account
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Re: Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account
#42I'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: "[…
You want to fire Brennan? I heard the last guy that had dirt on Brennan...ended up having his car blow up. Michael Hastings ring a bell?
Re: Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account
#43I'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: "[…
Ultimately, this is the same as when the CEO tells me he's disabled anti-virus protection because the popups annoyed him, or that he's using a personal Dropbox account so he doesn't have to go through that pesky login process onto the network drive.
My guess is that to many people in power, the benefits of using these web services seem to outweigh the disadvantages because they just don't understand the disadvantages. "It's OK - I set a great password!" There's simply nobody powerful enough to monitor what they're doing, independent enough to want to do something about it, and respected enough for people to listen.
We need independent bodies that act as national 'IT departments' and can refuse requests from the very highest powers, in much the same way that any other Head of IT can fire someone for gross misconduct because they were downloading torrents on their company laptop.
Re: Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account
#44I'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: "[…
It's plain negligence. Unfortunately, in this political climate it's not favorable to punish a high-ranking government official over mishandling their emails, even if said email is used to transmit sensitive information.
Why, whatever could you be referring to
Re: Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account
#45I'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: "[…
Except email and pcs that we have in their current form today weren't around in the 60s and 70s when these older guys cut their chops
Re: Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account
#46I'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: "[…
The key point for me is even if we assume that security blunders like this or say keeping a private email server are ignorance rather than malice ignorance is unacceptable at this level of government. Where's the security officer at advising these officials and helping them do it right? That has to be someone's job right?
That someone also is replaced if he gets on the nerves of the guy he is advising to much, at least on this level.
Parallel advising/control structures only work if they have someone higher up they can fall back on if necessary.
Re: Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account
#47I'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: "[…
Ultimately, this is the same as when the CEO tells me he's disabled anti-virus protection because the popups annoyed him, or that he's using a personal Dropbox account so he doesn't have to go through that pesky login process onto the network drive. My guess is that to many people in power, the benefits of using these web services seem to outweigh the disadvantages because they just don't understand the disadvantages…
You make a totally fair point, but I think it's also a fair criticism of the state of proper computer security that plenty of people opt-out as a result of the inconveniences. Someone will solve this someday and make a lot of money, but I have no idea what the solution is.
Re: Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account
#48I'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: "[…
Ultimately, this is the same as when the CEO tells me he's disabled anti-virus protection because the popups annoyed him, or that he's using a personal Dropbox account so he doesn't have to go through that pesky login process onto the network drive. My guess is that to many people in power, the benefits of using these web services seem to outweigh the disadvantages because they just don't understand the disadvantages…
The US Federal system was designed to have checks and balances provided by oversight by different branches of government.
Unfortunately today we have people in these branches of government who either won't do their duty because they are terrible at their jobs or because there is a silent quid-pro-quo where these sorts of people look the other way for each other.
Re: Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's plain negligence. Unfortunately, in this political climate it's not favorable to punish a high-ranking government official over mishandling their emails, even if said email is used to transmit sensitive information.
Why, whatever could you be referring to
I suppose he's referring to the Clinton's case.
Re: Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account
#50A 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?
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