Street Thug President
Posted on 11/05/2008 8:15:04 AM PST by tomnbeverly
The computer systems of both the Obama and McCain campaigns were victims of a sophisticated cyberattack by an unknown "foreign entity," prompting a federal investigation, NEWSWEEK reports today.
At the Obama headquarters in midsummer, technology experts detected what they initially thought was a computer virus—a case of "phishing," a form of hacking often employed to steal passwords or credit-card numbers. But by the next day, both the FBI and the Secret Service came to the campaign with an ominous warning: "You have a problem way bigger than what you understand," an agent told Obama's team. "You have been compromised, and a serious amount of files have been loaded off your system." The following day, Obama campaign chief David Plouffe heard from White House chief of staff Josh Bolten, to the same effect: "You have a real problem ... and you have to deal with it." The Feds told Obama's aides in late August that the McCain campaign's computer system had been similarly compromised. A top McCain official confirmed to NEWSWEEK that the campaign's computer system had been hacked and that the FBI had become involved.
Officials at the FBI and the White House told the Obama campaign that they believed a foreign entity or organization sought to gather information on the evolution of both camps' policy positions—information that might be useful in negotiations with a future administration. The Feds assured the Obama team that it had not been hacked by its political opponents. (Obama technical experts later speculated that the hackers were Russian or Chinese.) A security firm retained by the Obama campaign took steps to secure its computer system and end the intrusion. White House and FBI officials had no comment earlier this week.
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Street Thug President
A moment of panic, followed by a great feeling of relief, I'm certain.
cyberwar bump for later.........
Do not defame Andy Granatelli or Standard Temperature and Pressure!
Ya, at least they can keep the info in the Communist family.
hacked by an unknown “foreign entity,
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Interesting. There are not foreign entities out there who know more about Bambi than the idiots that elected him.
Wonder if they got to see his birth certificate.
OTOH, maybe O hacked himself via Kenyan friends just before or after he hacked McCain. Meanwhild both his and McCain’s ‘off loaded’ files are safe and secure elsewhere at another Obama site. O is a more sophisticated contemporary Tawana Brawley.
You must not be a conservative to misuse a copyrighted symbol of a great American company.
Do you have permission from the owners of this copyrighted material.
Admin mod I think this copyright infringement should be removed.
Wow, some one is a little testy this morning.
Um, no.
That would be “fair use” in a parody, and not copyright infringement.
Doesn’t make it “right” or “good” -— just not copyright problems.
I used to pour that stuff into my modified 283 Chevy motor in the 60’s. I wonder if it was useful or harmful.
I am NOT testy!
Yo’obama.
I very much approve of using lower case to start his name. In the future it may be the only protest we have.
I’m surprised it hasn’t happened yet, but what better way for Obama to hide all those illegal donations he got! Especially those from overseas.
He can have one of his Kenyan buddies hack into his campaign donation files and remove or edit the damaging stuff. Then Obama can claim that his files were hacked and all his records have been destroyed.
Crimes...what crimes!
Do you have permission from the owners of this copyrighted material.
No. And neither do 99.9% of the people who post AP images, FNC/MSNBC screenshots, Drudge Report images and stills from YouTube. Consider me spanked. Keep up the great work as FR Image Cop.
They probably have some good extortion data for future negotiations
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