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He's had over a year to enable it.

by hughw 7mo ago

DaSHacka 7mo ago
Why would he, when he wasn't director of the FBI then?
- hughw 7mo ago
  Agree only a smart person would the sense in it.
  - buzzerbetrayed 7mo ago
    [flagged]
  - DaSHacka 7mo ago
    fittingly ironic typo
- thephyber 7mo ago
  You’re right. He was merely [checks notes]: - Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Defense (2020-2021) - Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (2020) Not a big deal. No need for OpSec in those positions.
sysguest 7mo ago
woah but even I haven't heard about that gmail feature...? maybe google doesn't advertise about this much?
- dessimus 7mo ago
  If only the Director of the FBI had access to some sort of investigative team, maybe more than one, maybe even enough that they use a collective term for it, something like, I don't know: bureau?
- saulapremium 7mo ago
  "Even you"? Are you someone who would be inclined to look into something like that?
  - sysguest 7mo ago
    no but I've been interested in cryptography/anonimity stuff, so I see a lot of suggestions/advertisements related to those: signal, telegram, proton-mail, etc
- thephyber 7mo ago
  They absolutely advertised it when it was released and every journalist knows about it. Kashmir Patel went out of his way to bypass security protocols for onboarding his political hires (for the US’s premiere domestic intelligence service!). If he wanted to be secure, all he had to do was not get in the way of the FBI’s natural processes. Also, this wouldn’t have happened if POTUS had hired someone with relevant FBI experience instead of a political hack.
  - sysguest 7mo ago
    > POTUS had hired someone with relevant FBI experience instead of a political hack. well what percentage of highly-rated FBI people have actually enabled that feature? did FBI had some internal recommendation to enable that feature? FBI isn't NSA people...
    - dessimus 7mo ago
      What are you talking about? There's literally a Cyber Crimes[0] division of the FBI, and they run the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF). They probably know a thing or two about cyber security for high-ranked governmental officials. [0] https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber
      - sysguest 7mo ago
        well by that logic, you can argue every top gov officials who didn't sign up for https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/ https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/ is incompetent, BECAUSE NSA IS part of the government ? dude at least you should have brought an internal recommendation memo targeted all fbi people, not "but fbi has this and this division..." lets say your college have astrophysics and other big departments. Are you really expert on those areas? Can you expect all highly-regarded professors to know most things from other departments? Do all 'competent' art professors know about astrophysics?
        dessimus 7mo ago

He's had over a year to enable it.

by hughw 7mo ago

He's had over a year to enable it.

DaSHacka 7mo ago

Why would he, when he wasn't director of the FBI then?

hughw 7mo ago
Agree only a smart person would the sense in it.
- buzzerbetrayed 7mo ago
  [flagged]
- DaSHacka 7mo ago
  fittingly ironic typo
thephyber 7mo ago
You’re right. He was merely [checks notes]: - Chief of Staff to the United States Secretary of Defense (2020-2021) - Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence (2020) Not a big deal. No need for OpSec in those positions.

sysguest 7mo ago

woah but even I haven't heard about that gmail feature...? maybe google doesn't advertise about this much?

dessimus 7mo ago
If only the Director of the FBI had access to some sort of investigative team, maybe more than one, maybe even enough that they use a collective term for it, something like, I don't know: bureau?
saulapremium 7mo ago
"Even you"? Are you someone who would be inclined to look into something like that?
- sysguest 7mo ago
  no but I've been interested in cryptography/anonimity stuff, so I see a lot of suggestions/advertisements related to those: signal, telegram, proton-mail, etc
thephyber 7mo ago
They absolutely advertised it when it was released and every journalist knows about it. Kashmir Patel went out of his way to bypass security protocols for onboarding his political hires (for the US’s premiere domestic intelligence service!). If he wanted to be secure, all he had to do was not get in the way of the FBI’s natural processes. Also, this wouldn’t have happened if POTUS had hired someone with relevant FBI experience instead of a political hack.
- sysguest 7mo ago
  > POTUS had hired someone with relevant FBI experience instead of a political hack. well what percentage of highly-rated FBI people have actually enabled that feature? did FBI had some internal recommendation to enable that feature? FBI isn't NSA people...
  - dessimus 7mo ago
    What are you talking about? There's literally a Cyber Crimes[0] division of the FBI, and they run the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF). They probably know a thing or two about cyber security for high-ranked governmental officials. [0] https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/cyber
    - sysguest 7mo ago
      well by that logic, you can argue every top gov officials who didn't sign up for https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/ https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/ is incompetent, BECAUSE NSA IS part of the government ? dude at least you should have brought an internal recommendation memo targeted all fbi people, not "but fbi has this and this division..." lets say your college have astrophysics and other big departments. Are you really expert on those areas? Can you expect all highly-regarded professors to know most things from other departments? Do all 'competent' art professors know about astrophysics?
      - dessimus 7mo ago