you don't think that it's relevant and concerning that the director of the FBI didn't take operational security seriously enough that his account got compromised? even if they didn't get anything incriminating (which maybe they did and are going to blackmail him later) that show a shocking lack of competency for someone in that kind of position.

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upheaval7276 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

we don't even know how it was compromised. was his password "password", or did the hackers exploit a gmail/google vulnerability?

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weaksauce 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

i think the facts of the matter are that a gmail vulnerability is on the very low likelihood kind of event. they wouldn't burn their insanely valuable vulnerability on showing how much of a fratboy kash is. the most likely possibility is that he either clicked on something dumb and gave access through phishing(really bad) or had a really weak password without 2fa(also really bad).

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pkilgore 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

are you suggesting the former is not a demonstration of a shocking lack of competency?

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upheaval7276 17 hours ago | parent [-]

I'm suggesting we don't know how the account was hacked, which is true. could be due to incompetence or not. i don't know, nor do you

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jeroenvlek 17 hours ago | parent [-]

True, but don't you think the FBI director should be held to higher standards of security hygiene than average people? Because I'm interpreting your tone as "it could happen to anyone". At some point the doubt is gone and there's no more benefit to give...

	▲	alexandre_m 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Comments in this thread mostly reflect people’s own biases, that is a shallow projection based on the headline.

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drfloyd51 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Did the director have his email on a vulnerable server? Yes. Yes he did.

He should have known better.

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jimbob45 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Operational security doesn’t apply to personal accounts, no? Otherwise, they wouldn’t be personal.