Security through luck?

The reality is that officials are targetted by various states looking to get some leverage, so not properly securing an email account is a serious failing unless it's part of a wider honeypot scheme. Personally, I'm not convinced that the current U.S. administration is competent enough to plan ahead and implement honeypots.

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leereeves 5 hours ago | parent [-]

No point in going round and round with personal opinions and general speculation. The debate is easily settled: just point to some actual harm done by this hack.

	▲	ndsipa_pomu 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I don't think you really understand how blackmail works. If the information is public, then that's a failed blackmail attempt. Also, the U.S. administration is unlikely to provide public information on how top officials have been compromised. It's not really much of a debate as it's widely acknowledged that letting enemy states get access to the email accounts of officials is a really bad idea.