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Teen stoner says he hacked CIA director’s AOL account
NY Post ^ | 10-18-15 | Philip Messing, Jamie Schram and Bruce Golding

Posted on 10/19/2015 10:23:24 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email scandal didn’t stop the head of the CIA from using his own personal AOL account to stash work-related documents, according to a stoner high school student who claims to have hacked into them.

CIA Director John Brennan’s private account held sensitive files — including his 47-page application for top-secret security clearance — until he recently learned that it had been infiltrated, the hacker told The Post.

Other emails stored in Brennan’s non-government account contained the Social Security numbers and personal information of more than a dozen top American intelligence officials, as well as a government letter about the use of “harsh interrogation techniques” on terrorism suspects, according to the hacker.

The FBI and other federal agencies are now investigating the hacker, with one source saying criminal charges are possible, law enforcement sources said.

“I think they’ll want to make an example out of him to deter people from doing this in the future,” said a source who described the situation as “just wild” and “crazy.”

“I can’t believe he did this to the head of the CIA,’’ the source added. “[The] problem with these older-generation guys is that they don’t know anything about cybersecurity, and as you can see, it can be problematic.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 201510; aol; bleedingheartattack; brennan; cia; cybersecurity; detainees; emails; gwot; hacked; hacking; harsginterrogation; harshginterrogation; interrogation; johnbrennan; nongovemail; oops; privateemails; securitybreaches; securityclearance; technology; topsecret; torture
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The head of the CIA,,, uses AOL. I think im understanding how 9/11 those clues may have been missed.


21 posted on 10/19/2015 10:46:21 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Who still uses AOL?


22 posted on 10/19/2015 10:46:40 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: afraidfortherepublic

“The FBI and other federal agencies are now investigating the hacker, with one source saying criminal charges are possible, law enforcement sources said.

“I think they’ll want to make an example out of him to deter people from doing this in the future,” said a source who described the situation as “just wild” and “crazy.” “

A stoner hacks into the CIA directors AOL accounts where he has secret documents. And the kid is the one in trouble. Welcome to the totalitarian government. America was really fun, wasn’t it?


23 posted on 10/19/2015 10:49:05 AM PDT by DesertRhino ("I want those feeble minded asses overthrown,,,")
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To: afraidfortherepublic
“I can’t believe he did this to the head of the CIA,’’ the source added. “[The] problem with these older-generation guys is that they don’t know anything about cyber security, and as you can see, it can be problematic.”

After all - It's not as if they could employ the very brightest and best security experts with their overt and covert black budgets that for all practical purposes have just about unlimited funds.

Or is it?


24 posted on 10/19/2015 10:50:18 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Vaquero
See # 11

It's a classic!
25 posted on 10/19/2015 10:54:40 AM PDT by needmorePaine
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To: afraidfortherepublic; ntnychik; potlatch; Alamo-Girl
Deutch had 17,000 files on a disk, logged onto Russian sites at home. During Deutch's tenure Colby took a moonlight canoe ride for having been too frank with Congress re the Family Jewels.

Brennan head of Riyadh station 1996-9, likely convert, stipulated jihad a legitimate religious tenet, donated to Obama in 2008 when Brennan's The Analysis Corp. accessed Obama's passport file.

So now they bust a citizen for watching back.


26 posted on 10/19/2015 10:54:50 AM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Fakistan)
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To: Vermont Lt

AOL Keyword: Lamont you big dummy!


27 posted on 10/19/2015 10:54:53 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: afraidfortherepublic

PW was 007 or perhaps “bond,james bond”?


28 posted on 10/19/2015 10:55:09 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: thorvaldr

Well, you do not want your family sending fart jokes to you at the CIA.gov account.

But no one under the age of 70 still has an AOL account. It demonstrates a complete inability to keep up.


29 posted on 10/19/2015 10:55:48 AM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: afraidfortherepublic
“I think they’ll want to make an example out of him to deter people from doing this in the future,”

The kid should be a hero for exposing the vulnerability. But instead it's ...

THen again, this is the CIA, it might be...

Then again it's the gay adminstration, so it might just get "ridiculous!"


30 posted on 10/19/2015 10:57:11 AM PDT by DannyTN
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To: afraidfortherepublic

John Brennan is as of today, Hillary’s scape goat


31 posted on 10/19/2015 10:57:41 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ....carson is the kinder gentler trump)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

AOHell. The bad old days of internet access. Sends a shiver down my spine just thinking back.


32 posted on 10/19/2015 10:58:16 AM PDT by Moltke
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To: afraidfortherepublic
Hillary Rodham Clinton’s email scandal didn’t stop the head of the CIA from using his own personal AOL account to stash work-related documents, according to a stoner high school student who claims to have hacked into them.

That's because there have not been ANY negative consequences for Hillary Rodham Clinton as a result of the "email scandal". No one seems to give a rip.
33 posted on 10/19/2015 11:08:14 AM PDT by Sopater (Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? - Matthew 20:15a)
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To: maggief

Bkmrk.


34 posted on 10/19/2015 11:09:16 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (I'm fed up.)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Make an example out of him?
Dang! Hire this kid and put him to work doing something useful for the country beside exposing the CIA director for the d#ckhead he is!


35 posted on 10/19/2015 11:13:02 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: proxy_user

His password was:

Allah#1

or

IloveObama


36 posted on 10/19/2015 11:16:49 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Pass the popcorn, set back/watch, Russia destroy Isis in Syria and Iran doing the same in Iraq)
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To: afraidfortherepublic
The hacker’s Twitter page includes the Muslim Shahada creed, which translates as, “There is no god but Allah, Muhammad is the messenger of Allah.”

I wouldn't read too much in to this fact. Typing the Shahada might have been a homework assignment for school...

37 posted on 10/19/2015 11:18:39 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

The thing I find most shocking about this article is that some people still have AOL accounts...


38 posted on 10/19/2015 11:19:52 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: dfwgator

“Who still uses AOL?”

Losers like this clown.


39 posted on 10/19/2015 11:20:07 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Pass the popcorn, set back/watch, Russia destroy Isis in Syria and Iran doing the same in Iraq)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

That reads like the plot of a bad 90’s teen movie.


40 posted on 10/19/2015 11:20:24 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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