A post in the primaries forum about the many flaws in the Guccifer hack claim.

[YouDig]

It's dropping over there, apparently people are into conspiracies rather than facts. In case anyone is interested.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511904033

[Her Sister]

1. Interesting!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[YouDig]

3. Thanks. Some people here have a very poor understanding of computer security.

They seem to think that a computer is either "vulnerable" or "secure" and if it is "vulnerable" than anyone can just run a port scanner and "hack in" and then access all the files on the computer.

The truth is that technical hacks exploiting vulnerabilities do happen, but they are rare. For example, when the US and Israel got the Stuxnet worm into computers Iran used to run its nuclear program, and managed to break a bunch of their centrifuges, that was some serious high-tech stuff. But almost all hacks exploit humans, not computers, either by guessing passwords, or convincing tech support people to reset them, or whatever.

[Cha]

2. Thankd YD

[lamp_shade]

4. Thanks.

[yallerdawg]

5. I think the rightwing groups and the FOIA...

have done all the 'hacking' we need.

Their greatest fear would be for those 'top secret' classified emails to be released and all of us to see how ridiculous those retroactive classifications really are.

Isn't it some kind of psychotic or sociopathic psychiatric classification to 'imply' that somehow public institution Federal systems are more secure?

Don't we know nothing is 'secure -' and the only real problem with that is if it has to do with Hillary?

"Cause it's Hillary, damn it!"

[Lucinda]

6. TY! That is the way with GDP, but we can try and keep it kicked for people to see!