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Wikileaks leaked John Podesta's emails, including such criminal activity as his recipe for risotto.
by QuesnayJr 6y ago
Wikileaks leaked John Podesta's emails, including such criminal activity as his recipe for risotto.
- whatshisface 6y agoIt's generally a good idea for leakers to be selective about their releases (Snowden did a better job than Manning in that area IMO). I guess Wikileaks is between a rock and a hard place, because if they started editorializing then that would lead to political bias.
- diegocg 6y agoPolitical bias? Like when Wikileaks supported researching the Pizzagate conspiracy during the 2016 US election and posted links to /r/The_Donald "investigation" threads?
- BlueTemplar 6y agoThey sided against the US government (and with Russia) years ago.
- whatshisface 6y agoHas anyone leaked something about Russia that was then denied by Wikileaks? It could be that the US has a more active community of investigative journalists.
- QuesnayJr 6y agoApparently, yes: https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-leaks-on-russian-government-during-u-s-presidential-campaign/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/08/17/wikileaks-turned-down-l...
- 0xy 6y agoExcept the over 70,000 documents and leaks about the Russian government on Wikileaks right now. This argument is absolute nonsense given that fact.
- BlueTemplar 6y agoWell, since it was years ago, it's possible that they have reversed course since then. They disappointed me a lot, and I didn't keep up with them after that...
- UncleMeat 6y agoAnd that was widely criticized as improper behavior. Parler is not good, but stealing and publishing this information is also not traditionally ethical.
- Veen 6y agoAt this point, we've become so polarized that good and bad as abstract principles are irrelevant. What's good is what's bad for the "other side".
- eli 6y agoBoth widely criticized and widely lauded. Similar to what's happening here.
- binaryblitz 6y agoIf the data was public, is it stealing? (Not 100% sure if private data was released.)
- UncleMeat 6y agoCFAA doesn't care about that. There's problems with that law, but I really wouldn't want to push on it here.
- da_big_ghey 6y agoThe point is that finding a vuln and investigating it to the extent required to prove it works is security researcher behavior. Actually exploiting it and dumping all of a site's user data is malicious. If he had leaked stuff relevant to the capitol riots or something, maybe understandable, though using the vuln to do so would still have been wrong.
- binaryblitz 6y agoJust as a friendly heads up, @donk_enby used she/her pronouns.
- binaryblitz 6y agoWow. Downvoted to negative for politely correcting pronoun usage. Not sure what I should've expected given the average user of HN.
- skinkestek 6y agoFWIW my guess is there probably wouldn't be any downvotes if you just wrote "is a girl/woman". Personally I don't care about the difference but just mentioning "pronouns" seems to be enough to trigger the downvote reflex - "pronouns" has been abused to create so much drama the last few years that I can kind of see why people react even if I don't do.
- THE_PUN_STOPS 6y agoHere's the recipe for risotto: https://thetab.com/us/bucknell/2016/10/18/john-podestas-creamy-risotto-638 https://thetab.com/us/bucknell/2016/10/18/john-podestas-crea...