Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

reuters.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

491–500 of 591 posts

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

#491

Post by leereeves »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #464
thephyber wrote: post #417

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You are being pedantic. I have 2 family members who are/were special agents for the FBI. Much of their job is harvesting evidence to build cases by spying, which frequently comes more in the form of “spying” in the way we saw in The Sopranos. The FBI is also the premier counter-espionage organization within the US, so it is tasked with spying on suspected foreign / turned spies. It is much more than a spy network, bu…

All cleared citizens are subject to warrantless search at any time by the FBI, some for the remainder of their life. You don't have to be a suspect to fall within their panopticon.

> All cleared citizens are subject to warrantless search at any time by the FBI, some for the remainder of their life.

That claim deserves a source.

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

#492

Post by zzzeek »

phtrivier wrote: post #408

I'd feel obliged to add some "but, her emails..." reference. But it feels million years away. It's interesting to wonder how you get out of a spiral of incompetence and border-line (to be polite) corrumption at the highest level. Putting those people in charge was quick ; sure, a future administration could put them out quickly enough ; but how long will there be decently skilled people willing to take those position…

Why not look for historical examples? There should be hundreds not to mention the obvious ones?

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

#494

Post by mr_mitm »

noncoml wrote: post #295
noosphr wrote: post #216

Imagine a world where gpg encryption was the norm instead of something that only works reliably in Emacs.

How would GPG help? GPG is as safe as your private key is. If someone gets "hacks you" and gets access to your private key, it's over

GPG keys are typically guarded much better than emails, that's the whole point. Accessing e-mails can be done by guessing a password, to get to the key you basically need command execution on the target's client system.

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

#496

Post by panta »

pqtyw wrote: post #476
phtrivier wrote: post #408

I'd feel obliged to add some "but, her emails..." reference. But it feels million years away. It's interesting to wonder how you get out of a spiral of incompetence and border-line (to be polite) corrumption at the highest level. Putting those people in charge was quick ; sure, a future administration could put them out quickly enough ; but how long will there be decently skilled people willing to take those position…

> border-line (to be polite) corrumption Hard to imagine what would constitute "full blown corruption" based on this standard?

Maybe it's borderline because it's coming from the other direction. Corruption presumes some kind of "covertness", when you break all the rules without even trying to be discreet can you still talk of corruption?

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

#498

Post by LtWorf »

demosito666 wrote: post #369
FlamingMoe wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting comment: "if Iran ends up responsible for regime change in the US, i will be overjoyed as i die from irony"

And it is more than likely. US and Iran probably can’t defeat each other militarily (us obviously can, but it requires full scale ground invasion which is not even contemplated at the moment). And both can’t back out of the conflict. So the likely outcome is that the conflict escalates until one of the regimes snaps and it becomes to somehow politically possible to back out. Collapse of the regime in Iran seems unlik…

USA cannot do a full scale invasion without major internal unrest.

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

#499

Post by epsteingpt »

kingleopold wrote: post #444
edg5000 wrote: post #419

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We'd have to look at the longest-running democracies and observe how they handled periodic refactorings

[flagged]

The whole reason the US founding fathers are amazing is that they proved him concretely incorrect. US will celebrate 250 years of democracy this year.

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

#500

Post by hammock »

mpalmer wrote: post #451
kingleopold wrote: post #444

Earlier quoted context omitted.

[flagged]

You know, it's very funny. This is the most reproduced quote from Tytler, and yet you also have these chestnuts: While man is being instigated by the love of power—a passion visible in an infant, and common to us even with the inferior animals—he will seek personal superiority in preference to every matter of a general concern. The people flatter themselves that they have the sovereign power. These are, in fact, word…

Relevant quote today but seems to misunderstand the U.S. framers’ idea of what the U.S. govt was set up to be, namely by consent of the governed.

  It is not enough that a law is just, nor that the judge should be convinced of its justice; those from whom obedience is expected should have that conviction too. -Tertullian, 1st century.

  The power used by government…is justified merely because it is a better way of protecting natural right than the self-help to which each man is naturally entitled -Sabine explaining John Locke
Therefore if the governors ever fail the criteria of said justification, the consent is removed by default, irrespective of their elected term length or anything else.

One particular democratic election or another is not the contract. The Constitution itself is the contract, countersigned by the 50 U.S. states.

Post reply on HN