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E-Mail Hack Exposes Bush Family Pictures, Correspondence
New submitter rHBa sends this article about another high-profile email account breach:
"The apparent hack of several e-mail accounts has exposed personal photos and sensitive correspondence from members of the Bush family, including both former U.S. presidents. The posted photos and e-mails contain a watermark with the hacker's online alias, 'Guccifer.' ... Included in the hacked material is a confidential October 2012 list of home addresses, cell phone numbers, and e-mails for dozens of Bush family members, including both former presidents, their siblings, and their children. ... Correspondence obtained by the hacker indicates that at least six separate e-mail accounts have been compromised, including the AOL account of Dorothy Bush Koch, daughter of George H.W. Bush and sister of George W. Bush. Other breached accounts belong to Willard Heminway, 79, an old friend of the 41st president who lives in Greenwich, Connecticut; CBS sportscaster Jim Nantz, a longtime Bush family friend; former first lady Barbara Bush’s brother; and George H.W. Bush’s sister-in-law. "
G "dubya" Bush's shower self portrait.
"If any question why we died, Tell them because our fathers lied."
That lead to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians, I suppose this was the least our great nation could do.
The kid gloves are off. They're handing out actual jail time for people hacking phones/email for nude pics of Scarlett Johansson. If they find him/her, this dude's going to end up in gitmo over some addresses and phone numbers.
"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
Clearly you haven't been reading your Huff-Po this morning.
I saw this news 8 hours ago on the front page of yahoo. Can we stick to obscure news, or post widespread news in a timely manner?
Sorry for ranting, mod me a troll if you wish.
Some people die at 25 and aren't buried until 75. -Benjamin Franklin
Just don't try the same trick with Obama. He has no problem drone bombing US citizens.
crimes against humanity - frist post - hahahaha but bac to reality - arrest him for his crimes against humanity and treason against the USians and violation of his OATH of OFFICE to protect the Constitution against and from ALL ENEMIES, both foreign and DOMESTIC. Bush and Obama are the ULTIMATE ENEMIES of the CONSTITUTION, and the PEOPLE.
This isn't going to end well for the "hacker".
http://michaelsmith.id.au
Dorothy BUSH COCK!
Huhu huh.
...guess I've been out of the hacking biz for too many decades, but how are these mailboxes being compromised? I mean, it seems a rather long and arduous task to brute force passwords, especially if there are timeouts/captchas/whatever after so many missed passwords. Are these inside jobs?
I know I get emails daily from friends who have had their email accounts hacked...I simply can't believe that someone is sitting in front of their computer or even automatically generating passwords to hack these accounts.
If you enter my house at take my photo album, that's theft regardless of whether the door was locked or unlocked. How is this any different? There is a reasonable expectation to privacy for an email account.
Unless you're Aaron Swartz and those albums are full of academic papers. Then he can do what he wants.
Slashdot is so hypocritical sometimes.
There's an object lesson here: there's no such thing as privacy on the Internet.
All the world's an analog stage, and digital circuits play only bit parts.
Really?
And isn't it "privacy is dead", right? Yet people didn't demand Eric's head and sending to GITMO for saying it and invading our privacy.
So why is it so damn violent here?
Some dickwad got hosed.
If he'd been a burger flipper at McD's, no bugger would care. But because he's the dickhead who killed thousands, you want fucking DRONE STRIKES????
Nobody wants to see pictures of the Bushes!
I can't help but wonder what's in these pics, our company blocks the link for "adult themes."
Here's a picture of daddy drunk again...
Here's a picture of daddy throwing up again...
And here's a picture of mommy at *her* house...
AOL? No wonder Republicans are losing the technology war to Dems...
Please please tell me the shoe really did find its target!
Table-ized A.I.
unless there's a shoe-mark on his "southern end".
Table-ized A.I.
WTF took so long, anyway?
They're now private citizens, and deserve some regard for their personal privacy. IMHO, they should be left alone and this guy is a dick.
Please do not read this sig. Thank you.
I can almost hear the armada of drones heading to Anonymous's house.
Really - even if they were still in office, this is a dick move. Private emails are private emails. I care less about the hacking than the release, to be honest. If there's some actual funny business (like using personal email to avoid public disclosure statutes), then maybe the relevant text, but just releasing a bunch of personal, day to day emails (and all of the petty squabbling that everyone does) is unnecessary. I don't care what names they called each other or what they said "in private" about anyone.
Is it just my observation, or are there way too many stupid people in the world?
...has absolutely nothing better to do?
The kid gloves are off. They're handing out actual jail time for people hacking phones/email for nude pics of Scarlett Johansson. If they find him/her, this dude's going to end up in gitmo over some addresses and phone numbers.
Are you sure we are on the same page?
I thought there was a kickstarter for nude pictures of certain celebrities?
.......no comment
in the death count? Why should humans be so special? I'm sure its at least into the quadrillions or quintillions if you do an accurate re-count.
Now if I only had mod points. What amazes me is how far people will go to justify their stupidity than just admit they were fooled (i doubt hardly anybody would admit they were stupid or fools... especially Americans; who are #1 on confidence and not much else.)
Have you ever noticed that people who chose to attack others that value their privacy never actually use their real names?
I have been an AC here since user 77xxx was registered, as some of them were my classmates. It was the wisdom of slashdot at the time to not even use a handle, as just one slip and it is as good as giving away your name, along with massive amounts of information that can be gleaned by any clever individual. Now in these times of real surveillance and data mining of civilians, many chose to attack people on the basis of anonymity. I would like to pretend it is the influx of readers that are not the most hard core of IT and development doing this, but it is clear the common culture of the internet has changed. When once anonymity was thought of as wise prudence is now thought of as a coward's shield.
For a lie to be a lie it has to be [1] wrong info and [2] the presenter must know it is false at the time he presents it
First, What Bush said (as opposed to what morons imagine he said) in the speech to congress was in fact true ... Bush did not say Saddam had WMDs, he said that we had reports from the intelligence service of an ally that Saddam was trying to get yellowcake uranium in Africa for his WMD program. This was in fact true. We did have intel from an ally's intel agency to that effect. It's also true that Saddam had a WMD program (though once we took over in Iraq we were able to see that it was not very active at the time) Saddam did HAVE a WMD program which had previously been VERY active and had used chem weapons to massacre Kurdish civilians. That program had also previously obtained yellowcake uranium for a nuclear program, and in fact the US and Canada conducted a joint effort to remove tons of yellowcake uranium from Iraq post-Saddam.
Second, to say that we found no nuclear, chemical, or bio weapons there after we took over and therefore Bush lied is also dishonest. What we found after we had boots on the ground has nothing to do with what we KNEW (not what some dissenting analyst without boots on the ground FELT) before the war. Technically though, even on this point Bush was still not wrong if you presume he said Saddam had WMDs since we did find, disarm, and remove a large number of artillery shells which Iraq had and which were loaded with Mustard Gas (a chem weapon, therefore technically a WMD, which most are not so scared of today but Mustard Gas was an appalling weapon when used in Europe in WWI).
The snarky "Lied us into war" line might get you an approving nod among the stupid (people who get their news from late night comedians) but it only highlights your ignorance to those of us who actually READ (and read the details, not just the headlines)
There's something really twisted in the fevered brains of left-wingers; they're not satisfied attacking the public actions of individuals they oppose and seem willing to commit various crimes to go for any personal "dirt" they can get on the subjects of their hatred. It was not enough when Sarah Palin's government e-mail accounts were dumped out for all to see (and nothing bad was found) so a lefty broke into her private e-mail account and leaked it to the world and lefty newspapers encouraged their readers to help crowd-source the investigation for dirt (they did not find anything). Now a jerk has illegally gone into the Bush family e-mail and dumped it to the world (now we can see dubya's toes in the tub). Can anybody name a single Democrat who's private e-mail account has been illegally accessed (and the contents dumped-out for the world to see) by some right-wing activist? anybody?
One major reason politics has become so toxic is that the left no longer plays by any rules. So far, the right has been holding to some of the old rules... but that's going to change if this crap keeps happening... and people on the left won't like the results. We already know the left could not withstand even a normal, legal and proper investigation into their e-mail (else why would so many in the Obama administration be using phony names on illegal, non-government, e-mail accounts?) There are plenty of right-wingers who are very good with the ones and zeros, but we tend to be busy on stuff that's much more difficult and much more important... if even a few decided it was time to take up a hobby we'd see some balance restored.
But this president things the government can mess with everyone.
And they're armed.
But nothing about wanting their safety from government protected by hellfire summary judgement through the whitehouse window.
there's something seriously wrong here with you people wanting death for fucking reading someone's email yet going "Well, I'm annoyed and going to complain" when warrantless email search (and theft within 100 miles of the border!) is done by the government.
Shrub et al shouldn't be doing secret service detail work on their google email account.
And without that information being at risk, this is a non-event.
Apparently, it's only wrong to hack someone's email if they're popular politically. I can only imagine that the response would be dramatically different if it was Bill and Hilary Clinton email instead of the Bush family.