• john_lemmy@slrpnk.net
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    8 hours ago

    Weak sauce.

    I can understand cheering for this to be released as we can imagine that these fascists would suffer some sort of consequence or comeuppance.

    But let’s not kid ourselves, they control the media and they’re immune to the sort of legal consequences that could come from any sort of exposé. He’s already a fascist doing fascist things!

    I just wished that we realized that if we want them to suffer the consequences of being fascists, we have to do it ourselves and not by staying behind a screen.

  • Optional@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Jesus does trump just shoot blood out of his eyes now? For fucks sake man, invest in some visine.

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    10 hours ago

    There is basically nothing that could be contained within such emails that would change almost anyone’s mind about Trump that hasn’t already come to some kind of conclusion about him. The only thing is might do it reveal some kind of technical non-moral weak spot.

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    10 hours ago

    While Iran isn’t considered one of the most sophisticated cyber actors in the world (Israel, for instance, is considered to be much more formidable), the group that allegedly hacked the Trump campaign is said to employ fairly tricky tactics.

    It’s the Trump administration. You could probably just send them an email saying, “We believe you’re the victim of a cyber attack. Forward your emails to this address so we can scan them and remove the malware.”

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      10 hours ago

      any group is vulnerable to a hack if security isnt babysitting those that fall for the simplest phishing attempts

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        9 hours ago

        any group is vulnerable to a hack

        You can stop there and be pretty accurate. The best we have is air-gapping private systems and trying really hard to secure private networks device to endpoint. As long as there are zero day exploits and well funded nation-states, there will always be back-doors in silicon.

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      10 hours ago

      I mean, what exactly would an email dump accomplish? Hard to embarrass these guys in any way that matters. They just keep plugging on, doing crimes and ruining lives, while sending their goon squads to rough up any news reporter who asks a difficult question at a press briefing.

      The fact that this is “Iran” implicated in the data dump only gives the bigger media outlets one more excuse to ignore the release and freeze out anyone involved in its distribution.

    • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      10 hours ago

      If they had anything worth a damn they’d have already released them. The threats to do so are a joke.

      It would already be somewhere like DDOSecrets.