I am not buying the Palestinian/Intifada cause of this stunt. There's something fishy about this operation and the timing in particular for the leak.
Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account
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Re: Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account
#62This 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"
That may be true, but it doesn't help. Impersonating another person could plausibly be construed as accessing a system without permission -- a federal offense, I believe. Couple that with things that likely include classified information, if the director included that kind of thing, and anyone who accesses his account could be facing a very aggressive prosecution.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would he keep his AOL disk in the cup holder?
I knew (witnessed) the person who got that famed call... was at the compaq side of the MCI call center handling support calls for compaq, on one side, and iomega on the other (I worked on the iomega side). Walking by... head pops up... "dude... dude... (trying no to snicker too hard) ... this lady's cup holder is broken..." ... me respondign "cup holder?" ... "yeah, the cd drive.. she thinks it's a cup holder" ... Su…
That's awesome. I was just kidding around, but I think some people don't get the reference to that support call being the stuff of legends.
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#64And the previous CIA director got fired because he had an affair that was leaked via his email account. What is it with CIA directors and email accounts?
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#65I'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: "[…
I guess if this happened to some common employee, he would be fired eventually. But Director of the CIA is a political position. So, it's much harder to fire him, because of political implications.
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#66This apparently linked twitter account https://twitter.com/_CWA_ has posted what appears to be un-redacted screenshots of names, phone numbers and social security numbers of what I would assume the NYP article is referring to as "top American intelligence officials".
A quick crosscheck of the names and emails brings up:
* The current Senior Director for the North Africa and Yemen National Security Council for the White House
* The former Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, for the US Department of Defense
* A retired 3-star general and former Deputy National Security Advisor to the President
It says something sad about our cybersecurity preparedness that the director of the CIA is keeping this info in an aol.com account.
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#67I'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…
I would flip that around: Make zero-knowledge systems and strong encryption routine in consumer internet products and services. Then you could use your yahoo or AOL mail for anything and there would be no bad consequences. Seems more reliable than trying to enforce the use of some crappy system made by a beltway bandit that is hard to use and inconvenient.
Re: Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account
#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would he keep his AOL disk in the cup holder?
I knew (witnessed) the person who got that famed call... was at the compaq side of the MCI call center handling support calls for compaq, on one side, and iomega on the other (I worked on the iomega side). Walking by... head pops up... "dude... dude... (trying no to snicker too hard) ... this lady's cup holder is broken..." ... me respondign "cup holder?" ... "yeah, the cd drive.. she thinks it's a cup holder" ... Su…
Yeah, in cases like this I refer to Scott Adams Dilbert (or rather one of the books).
"I get emails all the time from people who say they were -that- tech support guy that got -that- call about the cup holder. While we're on the subject of what people want in their email client, I want my email client to lock all those people in a room and force them to duke it out until there really is only -that one guy-."
Re: Teen says he hacked CIA director's AOL account
#69This apparently linked twitter account https://twitter.com/_CWA_ has posted what appears to be un-redacted screenshots of names, phone numbers and social security numbers of what I would assume the NYP article is referring to as "top American intelligence officials". A quick crosscheck of the names and emails brings up: * The current Senior Director for the North Africa and Yemen National Security Council for the Whi…
@_CWA_ is suspended as of a few minutes ago.