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Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email

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Post by sumedh »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #383
FreePalestine1 wrote: post #297

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The confusing thing is that googling "google advanced protection program" takes you to the en_in locale, even if you are in the US. An American has no clue what a crore is, so it is just an SEO failure on Google's part, which is funny. I didn't know there was an en_us equivalent to the page when I googled the topic.

> An American has no clue what a crore is Really? It's ten million of something, or (currently) about $11,000 US dollars in money. You might also see "lakh" which is one hundred thousand of something, or about $1100 when it's used to describe money. Now you know.

India really needs to adopt millions and billions.

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Post by SanjayMehta »

lazide wrote: post #569
SanjayMehta wrote: post #564

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That's coming from Google, the racism is coming from the commentators. I have no problem with racism; I have a problem with hypocrisy.

How is it racism when it is literally written by/in Indians? As in literally has it as the locale and uses terms only really used in India? You might as well be complaining someone notes ‘it’s Chinese’ when something written in Simplified Chinese by the CCP gets posted?

Good grief, read the comments up top, not talking about Google's page.

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Post by bookofjoe »

connorgurney wrote: post #193
bookofjoe wrote: post #94

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Post by lazide »

SanjayMehta wrote: post #572
lazide wrote: post #569

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How is it racism when it is literally written by/in Indians? As in literally has it as the locale and uses terms only really used in India? You might as well be complaining someone notes ‘it’s Chinese’ when something written in Simplified Chinese by the CCP gets posted?

Good grief, read the comments up top, not talking about Google's page.

Mind linking to any particularly problematic ones? When I scanned through before making my earlier comment, I didn’t see anything.

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Post by MomsAVoxell »

everdrive wrote: post #2

Interesting, and not all that implausible. The real test: his personal email should be pretty uninteresting except for stuff like HIPAA, amazon purchases, communications with friends / family. (good for HUMINT) But other than that, there shouldn't be anything in there which should make the news. It'll be interesting to see whether or not that bears out. If they wanted to maintain access, they certainly wouldn't celeb…

It would be damning to discover that he was compromised by a foreign adversary.

Or that he was participating in actively covering up the Epstein crime portfolio.

Maybe it wouldn’t be enough to get American citizens in an uproar, but the rest of the world certainly pays attention to these things.

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Post by PhilipRoman »

bjourne wrote: post #415
nixon_why69 wrote: post #78

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I'd like to chime in and say that that Kash Patel, while completely unprofessional and incompetent, is way less of a weirdo than the rest of the administration. His scandals are all about shirking job responsibilities to party and sightsee. That's not great from the FBI director but its way more normal than the rest of them.

90% of US media is not aligned with the Democrats and as such they do not possess the same power to manufacture outrage as the Republicans do.

It's actually almost exactly the opposite, at least when considering the number of media outlets. Fox news is a massive outlier with a huge audience and strong republican leaning, but most of the major networks engage in democrat-aligned signaling (not necessarily the progressive branch of democrats).

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Post by true_religion »

PhilipRoman wrote: post #576
bjourne wrote: post #415

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90% of US media is not aligned with the Democrats and as such they do not possess the same power to manufacture outrage as the Republicans do.

It's actually almost exactly the opposite, at least when considering the number of media outlets. Fox news is a massive outlier with a huge audience and strong republican leaning, but most of the major networks engage in democrat-aligned signaling (not necessarily the progressive branch of democrats).

Considering number over outlets versus population served is exactly the wrong way of looking at it.

Fewer outlets serving larger populations means stricter control over messaging, and a better propaganda base.

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Post by esseph »

demosito666 wrote: post #568
esseph wrote: post #552

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> This is all fine and well, but misses one little detail: drones. That's why A-10s are patrolling the 6 mile wide straight for 2 hours a flight. They can take out the larger Iranian drones much cheaper than any other platform we have. The small dones can't get very far and the US is exceptional at electronic warfare. But that doesn't really change anything, it just maintains the status quo of the straight being too…

Yes, in principle, this (limited ground invasion to protect the straight) can be done. The cost - both in lives, money and political capital - will be enormous. One comment though. > The small dones can't get very far and the US is exceptional at electronic warfare. There is currently one county in the world which is exceptional in electronic warfare against drones - Ukraine. Then there is Russia. Everybody else is l…

> There is currently one county in the world which is exceptional in electronic warfare against drones - Ukraine.

Where do you think they are getting that data?

Jfc

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Post by thephyber »

kevin_thibedeau wrote: post #466
thephyber wrote: post #421

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Bad take. Patel specifically bypassed security clearance protocols for Bongino and other staff he hired. His top priority isn’t protecting government secrets — it’s to take down what he thinks is the part of the US government that resists bending to Trump’s will. And you are wrong that the FBI shouldn’t care about securing the Director’s private life information. Anything and everything can and will be used to blackm…

Trump bypassed clearance protocols for unclearable Jared. Nobody cares with an unaccountable executive.

My take isn’t that “nobody cares”. It’s that we realized we are helpless against a President who violates the rules. Until he is impeached, he is for most purposes a king.
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