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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."
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.
Oh dear, it appears that someone's privacy has been violated without a warrant. Hey, Bush family, join the club!
Just don't try the same trick with Obama. He has no problem drone bombing US citizens.
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.
not our fault that sunni and shia hate each other. wonder how the hazara are doing in afghanistan? everyone hates them.
No one has issue with Afghanistan. The OP is more than likely talking about Iraq. Whom we were literally lied to and told they had ties to al-qaida, and then oops we misunderstood the report - but they have "weapons of mass-destruction1!!!!!" oops, we misread that one too, "but sadam is torturing his people!!", oops, turns out they weren't asking for help.. "ohhh.... okay well then I guess we need to stick around to clean up. "
can you imagine having died and learned that was the reason? That there wasn't one, never was, but now more need to die because of the mess we created by being there wrongfully in the first place? Can you imagine that the vast majority of our current debt is because of the massive amount being pumped into the war in iraq? And you're going to defend it?
And you believe that justifies the senseless carnage your war brought?
Never mind those local conflicts were never any of your business to begin with.
You people will never get it. You will never understand accountability or responsibility for your actions. Where mature adults would feel ashamed and penitent for what their country had done, America is obviously governed and populated by grown-up children who defiantly think they can have their way and never suffer consequences.
...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.
Palin's account was hacked by guessing the "lost password" secret security question, such as "what was your mother's maiden name?"
I'm guessing something similar happened here.
It depends ... it is pretty easy to hack a common person's e-mail. Look them up on FaceBook (if they have an account there).
Did they leave their e-mail address publicly available? Now you have their e-mail address, all you need is a password.
Look over their profile, noting the names of pets, significant others, family members as well as any publicly mentioned interests, celebrities, whatever.
Use variations of those names of pets, family members, etc as a password, if the account the e-mail is on requires numbers, toss 123 or the age of family member at the end. If the person was a fan of a particular car, try the model and year, etc. You get the idea.
The above will fail more often than not, but sometimes you* get lucky.
*I say you, but of course neither you nor I would be so malicious as to go breaking into an e-mail account.
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That's actually a pretty ridiculous assertion. The administration is going to say what they are going to say, and if they lie to us, precisely what intelligence assets to we have to prove them wrong?
Were you paying attention in 2003? It was clear then that most of their intelligence was fabricated. Opposition to the Iraq war produced some of the largest protests ever. Lots of people figured out that they were being lied to.
In the end, we only found out that there were intelligence problems because we went there and had a look around ourselves, which is to say, the army did and they found nothing. We wouldn't have gotten that sort of information any other way.
Bullshit. We could have waited for Hans Blix to finish. But Bush&Co knew that he wouldn't find anything that would support an invasion. Therefore he couldn't be allowed to finish.
Let's remember, the fact that Saddam did not have WMDs would actually have been less surprising if we didn't already know he had them at one point and used them on the Iranians and the Kurds.
The fact that Saddam did not have WMDs was not surprising at all.
In retrospect, I don't see why you think it would have been obvious to the American public that Saddam wouldn't have had weapons that he clearly demonstrated possessing and using in the past
Because there was no physical evidence, only fear mongering.
The fact that he did not have them is something that would not have been immediately apparent to the man on the street.
The man on the street should be able to recognize fear mongering when he sees it. When you hear things like "We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud", you KNOW you are being manipulated. It was blatantly obvious in 2003.
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At what cost? Over the past 10 years we lost about 3000 people in Afghanistan. In the 10 years before that, we lost about 3000 people in terrorist attacks. This is a draw at best. And that's if and only if you expect a 9/11 attack every 10 years, which is not historically the case.
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Slashdot is so hypocritical sometimes.
I hear ya, man, it's almost as if there was more than one of us.
"If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear." - Every fascist, ever
We certainly could have went in with WWII style annihilation and occupied what was left of the country afterwards
And kill hundreds of thousands of innocent people, rather than just thousands of them? And this is a mistake in your eyes?
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I am also not sure why you also think that a country that was actually attacked by terrorists only two years previously was going to be particularly skeptical about fear mongering either.
Because after a crisis is when people are most susceptible to fear mongering. Is this not obvious? Look at what happened after Sandy Hook, a shit load of fear mongering over guns, people crying "something must be done!", when violent crime is at historical lows.
Politicians use crises as cover for power grabs. That is how fear mongering works. Whenever there is a national tragedy, you will find politicians celebrating the opportunity to ram through bad laws and bad policy. It happens every time, so there's no excuse for being ignorant.
I knew from the moment I saw the planes hit the towers on 9/11/2001 that our overreaction would hurt us far more than the attack did, and I was right. I don't see how anyone could possibly expect anything else. If the way this has played out wasn't obvious from day one, you simply have no clue how the world works.
And being right or wrong in the absence of your own ability to verify makes you ignorant, but it doesn't make you culpable.
If you distort evidence to bolster your reasoning, that absolutely makes you culpable. Being honestly wrong is OK. But the Bush administration was never honest in the run up to Iraq, it was blatantly dishonest, and that was obvious to anyone who paid attention at the time.
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Last month a drone strike killed 24 civilians, with zero enemy combatants present. Bush would get blamed for this kind of thing outright, yet nobody blames obama.
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Note to FBI annd SS: The above poster should be suspect #1
Lets not kid ourselves, he is guilty of something so let the investigation commence.
"His name was James Damore."
And you don't think that spending a shitload of time, resources and effort on a war with zero return benefit might have had something to do with the recession?
Money is just numbers in a bank, the war pissed away a lot of lives and real resources that can't be recreated by adding more zeros to MIC bank accounts.
I'm guessing that wasn't on their radar screen...
What is this revisionist crap? Powell threw away his political career (and fell on a sword for Bush) because he told obvious lies to the UN about WMD and nobody in the room believed him. Blair etc pretended to believe to get a fake justification for their actions. The WMD stuff came from a fucking PR company FFS!
You are deliberately misleading the kiddies again with another very stupid lie. The links are far more unlikely than that between the Taliban and Kevin Bacon.
Think about it people - a secular government that see religeous extremists as it's biggest threat and has tortured and killed thousands of them teaming up with a bunch of the people they usually round up and shoot?