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Re "If they are behind the leaks of the DNC emails that showed Sanders was never going to be allowed to run that's something every registered Democrat had a right to know."
That was an insider walking out like with the Pentagon papers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.... Another nations ability to get in, stay in and move vast amounts of data undetected is really a bit too much of a cyber fantasy. The ability to find evidence and then tell the waiting media of another nations methods, ip range, code fragments and efforts within hours and days is the fiction.
If the well understood and easy to find method can be detected in hours, how and why was it allowed to move all the data out in real time?
The US gov should have done a secret investigation, leaked a few hints to tame media sites about how the super skilled method was been tracked and the nation of origin over a much longer time frame.
That would have been a better cover story. To have a Bear name waiting and have national media push out method, results and the fact it is well understood kind of showed a hasty, sloppy cover story for an unexpected insider walk out.

Re "despite the fact he denied having any knowledge of her private emails"
Other nations setting up a private email computer and ensuring US political leaders and their staff use it would need a team of trusted long term spies in the centre of US policy creation. Been able to enter such a server at will, move vast amounts of data out would not go undetected by the US/UK gov/mil from any nation of origin or domestic staging server.
"If Russian Intelligence Did Hack the DNC, the NSA Would Know, Snowden Says" (July 27 2016)
https://theintercept.com/2016/...
The rushed out Russian cover story seems to fail at covering the trusted insider issue and the amount of insiders with total access now willing to just walk data out.
Another option is the CIA/MI6 or NSA/GCHQ was playing real time honey pot with real US data sets again and needed another US network left wide open again as bait. Adding or altering the plain text data as needed within real data.
Another "Cyber Breach of Office of Personnel Management Was Avoidable: Congress" ( Sep 7, 2016)
http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/...
The insider saw the internal network as wide open for some reason and just walked the data out.

Well, taxis have their own horror stories, including at least one serial killer.

Sexual assault is only a click away (googled "taxi driver assault" and skipped the advertisement)

Grabbing the breasts is only ONE of the things this taxi driver did...

kidnap and rape

But I understand your rebuttal of somebody saying they've never heard of a ride gone bad with Uber. Personally, I think the important part would be rate at which things go wrong(and horribly wrong).

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Fare cards, gift cards, credit and debit cards used at Target, etc.,.etc,. etc...

When are we going to make our erzatz money secure?

The big screw up on his side was putting it in non-gas approved containers, but the charge was actually hoarding supplies.

No...

http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Two-Arrested-for-Gasoline-Hoarding-177184891.html

"Both men were issued a misdemeanor summons for violation of regulation concerning flammable or combustible liquids."

Please read this article, look at the picture, and tell me you think the cop was wrong. The charge was violating the law on the handling of gasoline. This moron poured 150 gallons of gasoline into regular Home Depot buckets. By the time he was arrested, the tops of the covers were bulging. Yeah, that's dangerous because gasoline burns ... and gasoline vapors EXPLODE.

You are definitely correct about the nature of the charge.

All the same, don't you think that perhaps during a crisis/emergency people may have their reasons to take their chances? You would never, ever take a higher risk in order to provide something essential to yourself, your family, and your neighbors and community? Never ever? Honestly, if I could, I would. I'd manage the increased risk as well as possible (store it away from people, etc) but sometimes you do what you have to do, even if you don't really want to. I wish I had neighbors like him, who would think of other people and try to provide for them even if that means taking a legal risk.

Understand, if he did this during a normal time of no crises at all, I would agree that he was a moron and I would agree that he should be punished. But this was a crisis and he was looking out for other people as well as himself. I believe he weighed the options and made his choices accordingly. Sometimes adverse circumstances alter what you would normally do. If you have never before been in a serious situation where the shit was really hitting the fan, then you don't know what it's like. Sometimes you are forced to do what is expedient and sometimes we as Americans go so long without ever really knowing what this is all about that we feel too comfortable making armchair judgments about the intelligence of those who have been there.

There was no real intent here to violate a law. The man was merely using what he had available. If he had had flawless, approved containers for that much gasoline, do you not think he would have used them? Laws made during times of plenty should be reconsidered when people become desperate, with the only caveat being that no force or fraud was involved in this "crime".

Gasoline vapors are dangerous as hell, but they don't explode without a source of ignition. While I agree that there are better and safer ways to store and transfer gasoline, what was the alternative? No fuel at all during a time when it's cold and grid power is down? Should he have told his neighbors "well as much as I would like to share lots of gasoline with you, I lack an approved container, so all of you are screwed, tough luck?" What would you do?

Ever seen the movie Alive? Are you suggesting the survivors should all have been charged with incorrect handling of a dead human body? Because that is against the law, you know. Do you want a total law-and-order society that a computer could implement? Or could we perhaps consider basic survival as a form of coercion that quite legitimately makes people take options they would not normally consider? I have no problem with that, so long as no force or fraud is used to victimize another person (there is never an excuse for that, ever). That was the case here.

Please read this article, look at the picture, and tell me you think the cop was wrong. The charge was violating the law on the handling of gasoline. This moron poured 150 gallons of gasoline into regular Home Depot buckets. By the time he was arrested, the tops of the covers were bulging. Yeah, that's dangerous because gasoline burns ... and gasoline vapors EXPLODE.

No, the actual charge was putting 150 gallons of gasoline into buckets, whose covers were bulging from vapor build up when he was arrested. Seriously, this was dangerous, and he was lucky he didn't blow himself up. Look at the pictures.

Behavioral profiling is effective.

Considering that TSA can't even weed out criminals during the hiring process I don't have much faith that TSA agents will prove much more adept at picking out terrorists in a 30 second interview prior to boarding an airplane.

Closely followed by a big splash.