2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHillary Gets Guccifered, If a taxi driver from Romania knew about Hillary’s server, so did China
"Maybe it should be a verb: To be Guccifered. Though maybe, in Hillary Clintons case, it would be better phrased as a crime. As in: They got her on a Guccifer.
Guccifer is the nom de Internet of the Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar. Few people realize it, but the Eastern European anti-hero is why the world knows that Hillary Clinton maintained a private email server while secretary of state. This week he may have made Mrs. Clintons road to the White House a lot rougher.
Its a case study in why governments have rules about online security. Guccifers specialty was hacking top officials and their relativeswith an eye toward mayhem and humiliation. He hacked the account of Dorothy Bush Koch and circulated photos of her father, former President George H.W. Bush, in the hospital. He hacked years of Colin Powells correspondence, including personal financial information. He went after FBI and Secret Service agents, senators and the wealthy....
The bigger point is that an unemployed taxi driver in Romania, using nothing more than a desktop computer, was able to infiltrate Mr. Blumenthals account and discover that a woman privy to Americas closest-held secrets was using a home-brew server.
The Chinese are brighteven brighter than Romanian taxi drivers. They employ hackers whose only job is to infiltrate the U.S. government. Those hackers have supercomputers at their service. They have lists upon lists of relatives and friends and aides of powerful people. When they break into accounts, they dont publicize it.
And yet we are to believe that the Chinese never found their way to clintonemail.com? That they couldnt even keep up with a freelance hacker? For me, it was easy . . . easy for me, easy for everybody, Guccifer told Fox News this week. How easy was it also for those foreign hackers to get to the webmail or home-brew accounts of Clinton aides like Huma Abedin, who took her bosss lead and operated off the government grid?"
http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-gets-guccifered-1462487970
This article makes some good points
grasswire
(50,130 posts)Cirque du So-What
(26,026 posts)Guccify?
msongs
(67,496 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)TM99
(8,352 posts)are more credible don't you know?
silvershadow
(10,336 posts)NWCorona
(8,541 posts)mooseprime
(474 posts)get flogged to death from every which angle (mostly except the ones that matter) and so infused with vagueries and incorrect info that before you know it you're completely numb and sick to death of it. which surely is the intention. you read enough of these stories and the only thing you know is that the SoS uses email, and you're not even certain of that. are we so naive? how about if we just adopt a law that says IOKIYAC so we won't waste any more time or brain-space. sort of like a pre-approved credit card. whatever the good senator does is inherently OK. sheesh.
just because you get away with murder doesn't mean you're not guilty of it.