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British teen: Accessing classified documents was 'kind of easy'
Arutz Sheva ^ | 20/1/18

Posted on 01/20/2018 2:39:10 PM PST by Eleutheria5

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To: Eleutheria5

WOW! Pretty aggressive little bag of puss. Happened on Obama’s watch, when when hacking US government agencies & businesses was welcomed.


21 posted on 01/20/2018 4:17:46 PM PST by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: Eleutheria5

Bookmark hack


22 posted on 01/20/2018 4:22:13 PM PST by ptsal ( Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. - M. Twain)
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To: Oldexpat
If a single teen did this,what have other countries done.

If foreign countries didn't do the same my first thought is it's because it never would have occurred to them that our senior officials were that freaking stupid.

23 posted on 01/20/2018 4:22:47 PM PST by TigersEye (#ReleaseTheMemo)
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To: TigersEye
The 0bama Administration, as ever, The Amateur Hour!

And THIS was supposed to have been Act Two???


24 posted on 01/20/2018 4:27:00 PM PST by COBOL2Java (Arguing with the left is like trying to reason with a crazy bum hearing voices)
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To: alloysteel

“This kid broke into any number of servers and bypassed their firewalls, all without making much noise at all, until something got triggered.”

I’ll bet he really ticked off the Russians, Chinese, Iranians, Norks, Brits, et al, when he got noticed.


25 posted on 01/20/2018 4:30:09 PM PST by VanShuyten ("...that all the donkeys were dead. I know nothing as to the fate of the less valuable animals.")
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To: All

Something to keep in mind, intel agencies would no doubt anticipate hackers and perhaps have files that can be hacked which bear no actual resemblance to the ones they keep secure. Then hackers will do more harm than good to whoever pays them to hack in. Or am I overthinking this?


26 posted on 01/20/2018 4:36:41 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (The president is a good man -- that's why they are out to get him -- where have we seen this before?)
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To: COBOL2Java

I’m afraid that Act would have been something much more sinister and bloody than Amateur Hour.


27 posted on 01/20/2018 4:46:08 PM PST by TigersEye (#ReleaseTheMemo)
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To: Old Yeller

Most employment is a process of adverse selection. Certain types of personalities are attracted and accepted as police officers, IT workers, etc.

President Reagan defined a split the explains government employment. Some people think government is the solution. Some people think that government is the problem.

My white abolitionist ancestors thought government was the problem. It was government that allowed and legitimized slavery. It was the government sheriff and US Marshall that enforced slavery.

The Black culture, even when Blacks were Republican, saw government as freeing the slaves. They mistakenly saw slavery as capitalism and not government.

The result is that Blacks want to work for the solution, the government. Whites do not want to work for the government, the problem.


28 posted on 01/20/2018 4:53:31 PM PST by spintreebob
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To: Eleutheria5

Hire him.


29 posted on 01/20/2018 4:55:58 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (SEDITION! Obama DOJ colluded to try overthrow the President!)
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To: Liberal Anti Venom
GECAS

Government
Employees
Crappy
Attitude
Syndrome

Definition:

I am paid a ridicules amount of The Peoples Tax Dollars. I get massive amounts of Paid Vacation Time and so many stupid “Holidays” (again PAID) that I cannot keep track of it all. Then I get to refuse all the assistance that American Citizens have paid for all the time they worked. I’m not responsible for much and get to Crap all over the Public.

The really fun part is I DON’T CARE !!!

30 posted on 01/20/2018 5:08:24 PM PST by mabarker1 (Progress- the opposite of congressl)
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To: mabarker1

Sounds about right. From my personal experience, it’s difficult for me to argue with any of that.


31 posted on 01/20/2018 5:57:26 PM PST by Liberal Anti Venom (Freedom exists not to do what you like, but having the right to do what you ought. ~John Paul II~)
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To: COBOL2Java

Is that a lump of phlegm she is mixing around from her one speech where she coughed it up into her water glass and then drank it?


32 posted on 01/20/2018 6:28:04 PM PST by Blue Highway
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To: alloysteel
This kid broke into any number of servers and bypassed their firewalls, all without making much noise at all, until something got triggered.

Gotta admire the initiative and skill demonstrated.

Actually, from the description of what he did, it was more likely that he was extremely skilled at "social engineering," which goes after the people around those whom you're attacking. Doing research on an individual using social media, then impersonating the person to get information. Most of what he did sounds like he was able to get passwords in one way or another, rather than "breaking through" either hardware or software protections.

Mark

33 posted on 01/20/2018 6:40:48 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: alloysteel
This kid broke into any number of servers and bypassed their firewalls, all without making much noise at all, until something got triggered.

Gotta admire the initiative and skill demonstrated.

Actually, from the description of what he did, it was more likely that he was extremely skilled at "social engineering," which goes after the people around those whom you're attacking. Doing research on an individual using social media, then impersonating the person to get information. Most of what he did sounds like he was able to get passwords in one way or another, rather than "breaking through" either hardware or software protections.

Mark

34 posted on 01/20/2018 6:40:49 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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Huh??? If this is true, I absolutely LOVE this kid

Yeah, it's all fun and games until someone dies.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/30/us/kansas-police-shooting-swatting/index.html

Police have arrested the caller and is charging him with manslaughter. You can hear the call at the CNN site, telling the dispatcher that he's holding people at gunpoint, and has poured gasoline inside the house and is getting ready to set it afire.

Mark

35 posted on 01/20/2018 6:48:32 PM PST by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: MarkL

Holdren is leftist, statist, global warming, eco-fascist

If he’s being harassed randomly by an armed wing of his beloved leftist nanny state, it’s pure poetic justice and a beautiful thing


36 posted on 01/20/2018 9:05:09 PM PST by PGR88
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To: Eleutheria5

I smell B.S.

This sounds like a cover story designed to be used to defend some evildoers. That their line of defense is they are incompetent should tell you how serious they think the charges against them will be.


37 posted on 01/20/2018 9:06:49 PM PST by BlueMondaySkipper (Involuntarily subsidizing the parasite class since 1981)
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To: vooch

Just apropos of nothing ... I went to the nearby Illinois DMV recently to get my new Drivers license. Fortunately for me, nothing had changed, so I only had to present my old license to get a new one, ( Otherwise some giant protocol ensued. )

My experience in these matters has ranged from bad to worse, in terms of wait times. But in this case I guess I was early and in a slow period as well, as there was hardly anybody there at all. Had to go through the protocol of checking in, and waiting to be called, which happened immediately. Stepped up, got my paper work and was referred to the photo area. Was immediately called there, got my photo, got my new ( temporary ) license and left.

Got home, and noticed I was missing my scarf. I decided I probably left it there when I took off my jacket for the new photo.

Maybe a long shot, but I went back down there ( 15-20 min. ), walked in and said I thought I left my scarf in the photo id area. The uniformed guard said “go look”. I walked back there ( just a few feet, ) and up to the counter, and said “I think I left my scarf here.”

The nice lady behind the counter immediately produced it, saying, “I didn’t turn it in because I thought you’d be back.”

Beautiful! Amazing! True, it was a very light day, but this is the last place in the world I would have looked for the thoughtful consideration that was given to me.


38 posted on 01/20/2018 10:15:41 PM PST by dr_lew
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To: Paladin2

Absolutely! Give him enough Vodka and he’ll start speaking Russian. And don’t give that he’s just fifteen. He’s a midget with low testosterone.


39 posted on 01/21/2018 1:07:18 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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