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billfor a day ago

Read the article he wasn't the director of the FBI: "The stolen emails appear to date from around 2011 to 2022"

GeorgeRichard 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Are you suggesting that he was targeted before he became the director of the FBI? That seems unlikely. Once he became an obvious target surely the FBI should have secured his past, present and future communications. But I have no idea what protocols there are for such things, I'm just going off common sense, a notoriously sketchy starting point in the crazy world of the current US administration.

coke12 7 hours ago | parent [-]

He was well known in the first Trump admin.

hughw a day ago | parent | prev [-]

He's had over a year to enable it.

sysguest 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

woah but even I haven't heard about that gmail feature...?

maybe google doesn't advertise about this much?

thephyber 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

They absolutely advertised it when it was released and every journalist knows about it.

Kashmir Patel went out of his way to bypass security protocols for onboarding his political hires (for the US’s premiere domestic intelligence service!). If he wanted to be secure, all he had to do was not get in the way of the FBI’s natural processes.

Also, this wouldn’t have happened if POTUS had hired someone with relevant FBI experience instead of a political hack.

sysguest 6 hours ago | parent [-]

> POTUS had hired someone with relevant FBI experience instead of a political hack.

well what percentage of highly-rated FBI people have actually enabled that feature?

did FBI had some internal recommendation to enable that feature?

FBI isn't NSA people...

dessimus 6 hours ago | parent [-]

What are you talking about? There's literally a Cyber Crimes[0] division of the FBI, and they run the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF). They probably know a thing or two about cyber security for high-ranked governmental officials.

[0] https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber

sysguest 6 hours ago | parent [-]

well by that logic, you can argue every top gov officials who didn't sign up for https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/ is incompetent, BECAUSE NSA IS part of the government ?

dude at least you should have brought an internal recommendation memo targeted all fbi people, not "but fbi has this and this division..."

lets say your college have astrophysics and other big departments. Are you really expert on those areas? Can you expect all highly-regarded professors to know most things from other departments? Do all 'competent' art professors know about astrophysics?

dessimus 5 hours ago | parent [-]

>well by that logic, you can argue every top gov officials who didn't sign up for https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/ is incompetent

I would, yes. Maybe a director in the Small Business Administration is lower on the target list of gov officials that would need to be concerned, but certainly anyone in the Departments of Defense, Justice, Homeland Security, State, Transportation, Treasury, and probably Nuclear Regulatory Commission, for sure.

> BECAUSE NSA IS part of the government ?

I don't know why multiple times in this comment section you allude to the NSA as being the only Federal agency tasked with any sort of cyber security responsibility, that is just plain wrong.

>you should have brought an internal recommendation memo targeted all fbi people

Yes, because I have access to any and all internal memos provided by the FBI to their employees. Internal memos are by their very nature are internal, so are generally not available for public consumption.

Also, your higher ed example is terrible, because as someone with a work history at a flagship state university's IT department, I can assure you that we provide all sorts of "memos", trainings, and tools to combat cybercrime, including special onboarding sessions to ensure new hires are protecting themselves and the university. We don't depend on the Art and Physics departments to make sure they keep their faculty 'in-line' following best practices in cyber security.

sysguest 3 hours ago | parent [-]

wow... how dense are you?

do you even know what your soap your janitor uses?

do you even understand why I ask whether "internal recommendation memo for that product" exists? what differences it makes?

"as someone with a work history at a flagship state university's IT department, I can assure you..." ...ok so wtf was that advertisement? I did NOT ask what you do, but whether your 'customers' actually care and know the stuff.

...do you have an intelligence of a parrot? or are you some llm?

cindyllm 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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dessimus 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

If only the Director of the FBI had access to some sort of investigative team, maybe more than one, maybe even enough that they use a collective term for it, something like, I don't know: bureau?

saulapremium 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

"Even you"?

Are you someone who would be inclined to look into something like that?

sysguest 7 hours ago | parent [-]

no but I've been interested in cryptography/anonimity stuff, so I see a lot of suggestions/advertisements related to those: signal, telegram, proton-mail, etc

DaSHacka 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would he, when he wasn't director of the FBI then?

thephyber 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

You’re right. He was merely [checks notes]:

  - Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Defense (2020-2021)
  - Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (2020)
Not a big deal. No need for OpSec in those positions.
hughw 20 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Agree only a smart person would the sense in it.

buzzerbetrayed 10 hours ago | parent [-]

Sick burn. Bet the dopamine hit was sweet.