Posted on 12/14/2016 5:51:29 AM PST by Izzy Dunne
[...] Last March, Podesta received an email purportedly from Google saying hackers had tried to infiltrate his Gmail account. When an aide emailed the campaign’s IT staff to ask if the notice was real, Clinton campaign aide Charles Delavan replied that it was “a legitimate email" and that Podesta should “change his password immediately.”
Instead of telling the aide that the email was a threat and that a good response would be to change his password directly through Google’s website, he had inadvertently told the aide to click on the fraudulent email and give the attackers access to the account. [ ]
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More fake news. The story in September was that Podesta’s password was essentially “password”.
It seems doubtful that one could accidentally change “an illegitimate email” into “a legitimate email” by a slip of the fingers, though I suppose if he’s using speech-recognition, it’s more likely.
Get a stooge to take the blame.
OMG!!! If this is true that’s INSANELY stupid!!!
And if post 2 is correct, that this didn’t happen and his password was password, :), that’s even more stupid!!
...not to self...change password..
All hackers can do if they break into my accounts is pay off my debt lol
Sounds like the punchline to the old joke about repressed anger in a marriage:
“I meant to say, ‘Honey, please pass the rolls,’ but what came out of my mouth was ‘You fat ugly bitch, you’re ruining my life.’”
It’s like they didn’t even know what the words “phishing” or “spam” or anything like that. And they wanted to be in control of the world.
The story could be true. The Russian connection could be a complete phony as I believe it is.
I hope that IT guy continues to work for the Democrats.
Maybe. it does seem extraordinarily unlikely.
Still, why put this out now and take the heat off the big, bad Russians?
And you want to be my latex salesman.
Thank you. I thought exactly that when I read the article a little while ago. B.S.
I believe it IS phony.
Assange has denied the Russians were the source.
Some UK Ambassador has claimed that he knew the guy who sent the stuff to Wikileaks and that it was a DNC insider, not Russians.
Putin won't deny it any stronger because it's fun for him to watch the U.S. squirm.
Perhaps the reason that the DNC got hacked and the RNC did not is because no one at the RNC was stupid enough to fall for a phishing email.
Seems like the Russians were a pretty good scapegoat.
I'll bet if you polled 1000 Americans on "who hacked the DNC", you'd get 900 "Russians' answers.
ABCNNBCBS made sure of THAT.
jpodesta
p@ssw0rd
“Though CAP is still having issues with my email and computer, yours is good to go.”
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22335
I bet the big Senate investigation never happens.
It will only serve to illustrate how the entire DNC chain of command were a bunch of morons.
THREE MORE INCHES GUARANTEED!!!
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