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It's well established that they got into Podesta's email when he fell for their spear-fishing and submitted his password on a fake site. But blaming the victim
by matt4077 10y ago
It's well established that they got into Podesta's email when he fell for their spear-fishing and submitted his password on a fake site.
But blaming the victim is just doing the aggressor's work. If russian agents broke into a power plant and blew it up, would you be writing about the need to fix the nation's fences.
I also disagree with your assessment that the DNC's security was "slightly below standards". They could have easily enabled two-factor authentication which would have foiled these hacking attempts – and the US agencies' agenda doesn't play into this story at all.
- jwtadvice2 10y agoInterestingly this report does not establish or claim that Russia had accessed Podesta's email.
- dv_dt 10y ago> They could have easily enabled two-factor authentication which would have foiled these hacking attempts But it wasn't enabled, and that's one specific reason for calling it below standard... of what was even available in commercial technologies..
- matt4077 10y agoOh, misunderstanding. I was arguing that they were not just slightly below standard but grossly negligent, and therefore far away from being impacted by any attempts to discourage security by the 3-letter agencies.