Trump sides with Putin over the CIA.

Milagro said:
So why didn't Podesta even utilise the most basic Internet security?

What allowed the hackers to target Podesta was a single email from the thousands WikiLeaks has published in the past week. In that May 16, 2015, correspondence between Podesta and Eryn Sepp, his former special assistant at the White House, Podesta asked whether Sepp knew his Apple ID, which would allow access to his Apple accounts and devices.

“I do,” she responded, listing his Gmail address and his password: Runner4567.

Within minutes of the posting of that batch of WikiLeaks emails Wednesday, Anonymous activists began exchanging queries. At 5:36 p.m. Germany time, one activist posted: “CAN we DO SOMetHING WITH AN APPLE ID?”

Moments later, another Anonymous hacker with the moniker 4Chan “had found Podesta’s Apple creds and logged in for first time,” Tait tweeted.

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Took about ~25 minutes from WL posting "part 5" emails before 4Chan had found Podesta's Apple creds and logged in for first time fyi.

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Less than two hours later, a hacker with the collective wrote: “GUYS I FUCKING REQUESTED PASSWORD RESET FROM TWITTER FOR JOHN PODESTA.”

Another hacker posted below that, “IF ANYONE IS ACCESSING HIS EMAILS, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SHITPOST ON HIS TWITTER.”

Later Wednesday evening, as Clinton landed in Las Vegas for a campaign event, a hacker got into Podesta’s Twitter account and tweeted in his name: “I’ve switched teams. Vote Trump 2016. Hi pol.”


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Apparently some asshole from anonymous compromised Podesta's Apple account using creds in WL dump and remotely wiped his phone. V cruel.

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Neither Podesta nor a spokesman for the Clinton campaign, Josh Schwerin, responded to emails asking for confirmation of the data loss.

Podesta, 67, is no innocent when it comes to security matters. A Georgetown University-educated lawyer, he served as the chief of staff to President Bill Clinton in the 1990s and as counselor to President Barack Obama in 2014 and 2015.

Apple allows a user who controls an account to remotely wipe clean any of his or her devices that may have been stolen or fallen into the wrong hands.

The Clinton campaign has protested the hack of some 20,000 internal emails from the Democratic National Committee as the handiwork of Russian government-backed hackers, an accusation that U.S. intelligence agencies supported last Friday. Those emails, along with Podesta’s personal emails, found their way into the hands of WikiLeaks.

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But Podesta’s travails Thursday did not come at the hands of sophisticated Russian state hackers. Rather, Podesta himself was apparently lax on basic computer security measures.

Like many computer users, he apparently did not use even minimal measures to thwart hackers, such as employing distinct passwords for different accounts or using two-step authentication, an extra layer of security in which a user receives an additional code as a mobile phone text message or by other means that is required before successfully logging on.

Security experts say reusing passwords facilitates the work of hackers.

“Every time you reuse that password somewhere else, its value drops 50 percent,” said Joe Siegrist, vice president of LastPass, a password management product of Logmein.com, a Boston-headquartered software and cloud management company.

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This is kinda like blaming the victim. Look how many other hacks have come to light. Yahoo, Target, Home Depot, Mark Zuckerberg... Nobody's safe.
 
If "runner4567" was his password then anyone could have hacked his email in under a minute with any number of apps readily available on the Internet.
 
christiefan915 said:
This is kinda like blaming the victim. Look how many other hacks have come to light. Yahoo, Target, Home Depot, Mark Zuckerberg... Nobody's safe.
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No Dear: it isn't like "blaming the victim", it's blowin' up the false propaganda about the Rooooooooooskies...

Podesta was a total dumb shit, asking for credentials on open email.
 
blackascoal said:
In the same way that you trust the sources that you do.

I ensure that what I'm trusting isn't coming from the one source .. and on this question, multiple sources report the same thing.
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Well I am sure that Daily Kos, Think Progress and the NYC agree.

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anatta said:
you keep missing the idea that whether you despise him or not ( and no that doesn't matter) -he is still duly elected-
and as an American it's a civic requirement ( i won't say civic duty) to at least hold the powder until he screws up.

By screwing up I mean an action -not a tweet, not a cabinet position. not even a rally.
If he's that gawd awful it will happen quickly -right?

Certain situations require one rising about partisanship for the good of the country.
I for one find it extremely troubling that modern day Americans don't understand this basic traditional concept-
or choose to ignore it. The logic is manifest. It's why losers congratulate the winners. it goes to collegiality -singleness of purpose.
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Thingy is too anally retentive to do that.

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Rana said:
It's laughable, the RNC was probably just as awful, but we will never know being that the Russians only leaked the DNC emails.
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Perhaps they weren't so stupid to use Gmail and a pathetic password to send sensitive emails?

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Rune said:
Darla is an adult, idiot.
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She's a good cook as well!!

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christiefan915 said:
This is kinda like blaming the victim. Look how many other hacks have come to light. Yahoo, Target, Home Depot, Mark Zuckerberg... Nobody's safe.
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Oh come on, is there anybody who doesn't know that there are hackers out there? Somebody in a position like Podesta ought to have known better. The fool even asked his assistant for his Apple ID in an email and Anonymous wiped both his iPhone and iPad shortly afterwards. Certainly nobody is safe if they use Gmail and a pathetically easy to crack password.

If you want to remain safe then change passwords regularly and use upper and lower case, symbols and numbers. I also try not to use English; a good way is to use the initial letters of a phrase e.g echasl as in Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining. If you use something like runner4567 then you are asking to be hacked.

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Jarod said:
Trump sides with Putin over the American CIA, FBI and State Department. Are you guys cool with that?

Putin and Trump are the only ones claiming Putin didn't help Trump!
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I'm cool with anyone who doesn't agree with democrats. They're the biggest threat to this country, along with their dear friends, the towel heads.

C'mon Jarod, why are you chasing ghosts? Stop being a crybaby and help us make America great again!! ;)
 
GazzaQueen said:
She lost, he won. Today it becomes official. If you re able, try to see the differences between the two. It will assist you in moving beyond your morose misery.
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I'm not miserable. I didn't predict a Hillary win, I didn't say the EC was wrong, and I didn't expect the electors to change their votes to Hillary. The only thing I said was that Hillary won the popular vote by big numbers and that's undeniable.

Appears you can't address the Petraeus/Rogers hypocrisy without defaulting to "but HILLARY...", and that amuses me. :D
 
christiefan915 said:
I'm not miserable. I didn't predict a Hillary win, I didn't say the EC was wrong, and I didn't expect the electors to change their votes to Hillary. The only thing I said was that Hillary won the popular vote by big numbers and that's undeniable.

Appears you can't address the Petraeus/Rogers hypocrisy without defaulting to "but HILLARY...", and that amuses me. :D
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Hillary's popular vote victory earns her a participation trophy.

Petraeus, you mean Obama's US Army Commander in Afghanistan, then on to head the CIA? har har that's a winner for you.
 
Milagro said:
Oh come on, is there anybody who doesn't know that there are hackers out there? Somebody in a position like Podesta ought to have known better. The fool even asked his assistant for his Apple ID in an email and Anonymous wiped both his iPhone and iPad shortly afterwards. Certainly nobody is safe if they use Gmail and a pathetically easy to crack password.

If you want to remain safe then change passwords regularly and use upper and lower case, symbols and numbers. I also try not to use English; a good way is to use the initial letters of a phrase e.g echasl as in Every Cloud Has A Silver Lining. If you use something like runner4567 then you are asking to be hacked.

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This isn't about Podesta and of course we all know there are hackers. I was part of the Target hack and the Home Depot hack and I expected that big companies who need credit cards would use the best security possible. Yet they were still hacked.

Conservatives LOVE wikileaks and their hackers as long as the info is detrimental to the other team. They're not going to so giddy when secret info about trump and republicans becomes public.
 
GazzaQueen said:
Hillary's popular vote victory earns her a participation trophy.

Petraeus, you mean Obama's US Army Commander in Afghanistan, then on to head the CIA? har har that's a winner for you.
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Yes Petraeus, the US commander in A'stan and head of the CIA who was foolishly seduced into giving up classified info to his lady love.

Har har, looks like Betrayus had an Achilles heel after all.
 
christiefan915 said:
This isn't about Podesta and of course we all know there are hackers. I was part of the Target hack and the Home Depot hack and I expected that big companies who need credit cards would use the best security possible. Yet they were still hacked.

Conservatives LOVE wikileaks and their hackers as long as the info is detrimental to the other team. They're not going to so giddy when secret info about trump and republicans becomes public.
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oh the Russians will use that to blackmail the Rs in office
 
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