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I thought the Podesta emails (at least the ones in the Wikileaks archive that Wikileaks keep tweeting urls to searches of) were from someone sending Podesta a f
by WillyOnWheels 10y ago
I thought the Podesta emails (at least the ones in the Wikileaks archive that Wikileaks keep tweeting urls to searches of) were from someone sending Podesta a fake gmail password reset email?
I don't think a disgruntled washington insider did that! I could be confused and there's another set of emails that you're referring to. It's impossible to keep up on everything lately.
- mschuster91 10y ago> I don't think a disgruntled washington insider did that! Quite the contrary: If I definitely know that my target is too incompetent to check what he clicks on, or that he forgets his password every week, it's waaay easier for me to achieve my goal.
- WillyOnWheels 10y agoCreating a plausible site that looks like a Google password reset workflow may be a few minutes work for hackernews reading front end wizards, but it's not really the domain of disgruntled washington bureaucrats.
- Nadya 10y agoDisgruntled Washington bureaucrats have money. Money can buy you black hat devs. A few minutes work for a chance at $[x-xx],000? Done and done. Payment upon successful phish. There are plenty of people that value money over morals.
- WillyOnWheels 10y agoI think it's still easier to blame a group run by a well funded nation state.
- Sunset 10y agoIt certainly would be more politically expedient.
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