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Related story: The leak of John Podesta's (Hillary Clinton's campaign manager) emails was caused by their IT support person replying that a phishing email was '
by saboot 10y ago
Related story: The leak of John Podesta's (Hillary Clinton's campaign manager) emails was caused by their IT support person replying that a phishing email was 'legitimate' when intending to type 'illegitimate', a very serious typo!
- dredmorbius 10y agoIt was also caused by: 1. Google not providing end-to-end, two-factor, encryption of email. Meaning access to the password was access to the entire corpus. ProtonMail and a few other startups (I've recently created a PM account, otherwise no affiliation) are offering at least E2E email crypto. 2. Google's identity protections failed to detect the phishing attempt and illicit access. This for an exceptionally high-profile account. Data are liability. "Who are you?" is the most expensive question in information technology. No matter how you get it wrong, you, or rather, we all, are fucked.
- lawnchair_larry 10y agoSo they claim. I don't think he would have used illegitimate in that context. He probably just said it was a typo to save face.
- kafkaesq 10y agoOh, I can totally believe it was a typo. People who work on campaigns are constantly overworked and sleep-deprived like you wouldn't believe. So they make screw-ups like this all the time.
- ronilan 10y agoIt depends upon what the meaning of the word "was" was. https://youtu.be/j4XT-l-_3y0 https://youtu.be/j4XT-l-_3y0