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Officials Say Russian Hackers Read Obama's Unclassified Emails

Posted by samzenpus on from the lets-have-a-look dept.

An anonymous reader points out that Russian hackers reportedly obtained some of President Obama’s emails when the White House’s unclassified computer system was hacked last year. Some of President Obama's email correspondence was swept up by Russian hackers last year in a breach of the White House's unclassified computer system that was far more intrusive and worrisome than has been publicly acknowledged, according to senior American officials briefed on the investigation. The hackers, who also got deeply into the State Department's unclassified system, do not appear to have penetrated closely guarded servers that control the message traffic from Mr. Obama's BlackBerry, which he or an aide carries constantly. But they obtained access to the email archives of people inside the White House, and perhaps some outside, with whom Mr. Obama regularly communicated. From those accounts, they reached emails that the president had sent and received, according to officials briefed on the investigation.

109 comments

  1. One email found by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Putin, I know you are snooping here. Give back the Superbowl ring and Crimea, you thief. And wave Hello to Mrs. Palin for me."

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    1. Re:One email found by florin · · Score: 5, Funny

      "Oh and good luck getting Hillary's email because no one here has it either."

    2. Re:One email found by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 1

      "Oh and good luck getting Hillary's email because no one here has it either."

      Oh, what sad times have befallen Slashdot, when no one knows Hillary's email address!

      C'mon Slashdotters! Do that "my niece's boyfriend delivers newspapers to someone who used to live next door to Hillary Clinton once . . . "

      We can stretch it . . . a bit . . . !

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    3. Re:One email found by g0bshiTe · · Score: 1

      I bought a hamster that supposedly had one of it's sibling hamsters purchased by the Clintons neighbor.

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  2. Snowden is a hero by kwoff · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Oh no, these Russians didn't have a warrant? It's okay that Americans working at government agencies can unconstitutionally access my stuff, but now I should be concerned? Who the propaganda cares?

    1. Re:Snowden is a hero by approachingZero+ · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Good point. What's good for the goose is good for the goose stepping.

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    2. Re:Snowden is a hero by lucm · · Score: 4, Funny

      Don't you find it interesting that this incident occurred while Snowden was in Russia? Maybe he gave them the White House wifi password in exchange for his 1-year visa.

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    3. Re:Snowden is a hero by garyisabusyguy · · Score: 0

      Putin and Snowden are the new heroes of the gop and fox news

      I think that Obama derangement syndrome has taken a serious toll on the American right wing's sanity

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    4. Re:Snowden is a hero by PPH · · Score: 4, Funny

      the White House wifi password

      'admin'.

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    5. Re:Snowden is a hero by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Oh no, these Russians didn't have a warrant? It's okay that Americans working at government agencies can unconstitutionally access my stuff, but now I should be concerned? Who the propaganda cares?

      I wonder how many millions of Putin's emails they have on the NSA servers?

      Oh, wait, but it's "ok for us", but horribly evil if they do the *exact same thing*. Got it. Pot meet kettle.

    6. Re:Snowden is a hero by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      The GOP is rather divided on the NSA/Snowden stuff. Only two candidates thus far have said anything negative about the NSA while two others have spoken up strongly in favor of domestic spying. The silence on the part of other candidates can likely be taken as tacit endorsement of NSA spying (otherwise they'd choose to make it into an election issue).

    7. Re:Snowden is a hero by rtb61 · · Score: 2

      Rather pointless for the Russians to hack the Whitehouse, the puppet house, nothing there but implied instructions from their corporate campaign donors. Want to know what the actual American government is doing, Russia needs to hack the boardrooms and homes of the US's dominate corporate leaders to find out what is actually going on and to be able to get actionable data. This to bring them down or to force better behaviour, lots of dirt there and of course even more in the tax havens positive gold mine of US and western government corruption.

      Want to know what is going on don't watch the puppet show, just mock it's subservience and incompetence (good people are more likely to be loyal to their fellow citizens then corrupt corporations), pay attention to the psychopaths pulling the campaign strings. Shine a light in those shadows and watch the cockroaches scatter no matter how rich they are and how much power they 'think' they have.

      The new cold war is US Corporations VS the People of The World.

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    8. Re:Snowden is a hero by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You need a new user name Garyisastupidguy.

    9. Re:Snowden is a hero by TigerPlish · · Score: 1

      Don't you find it interesting that this incident occurred while Snowden was in Russia? Maybe he gave them the White House wifi password in exchange for his 1-year visa.

      Oh come *on!* It's not too hard to guess, it's the same one in 10 Downing St!

      Scr3w7h3pr0le5

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    10. Re:Snowden is a hero by garyisabusyguy · · Score: 1

      Pretty funny coming from an AC

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    11. Re:Snowden is a hero by garyisabusyguy · · Score: 1

      Just before the whole snowden thing went greenwald, the gop was getting destroyed in the polls because everybody under thirty was voting for the dems

      The spring of generated scandals was effective, not in turning these people into republicans, but getting them to become disgusted enough with their government to not show up at the polls on election day

      The gopers do not have to publicly support snowden to benefit from his revelations because everybody who votes for the gop lived through the cold war and pretty much expects that stuff is going on, or supports it openly

      The 2014 elections, with a spectacularly low turnout in voters under thirty and clear gop wins, demonstrates just how effective the snowden gambit has been

      fwi, it is not the firs time that the gop has sold national security down the river for wins at the polls

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    12. Re:Snowden is a hero by Runaway1956 · · Score: 1

      I thought it was '123456'. Maybe they have TWO WIFI routers?

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    13. Re:Snowden is a hero by cold+fjord · · Score: 0

      Thanks kind of funny since the Russian army stil uses the goose step, and the US military never has. Interesting symbolism.

      Kind of fits in with Russia invading Ukraine to steal Crimea (and was willing to use nuclear weapons to do it). Now Russia is sending troops into Ukraine's border regions to try to steal that away. Russia just openly threatened Denmark with nuclear weapons. Russia is also threatening Moldova, and the Baltic nations. Finland is concerned. Poland considers itself under threat. Russia has been sending bombers and naval vessels, and submarines to probe Sweden, the UK, and US.

      And certainly Snowden is a hero in Russia for making millions of Top Secret documents on US intelligence systems available to Russia.

      Wouldn't it be a pity if someday the goose stepping is outside your window? Maybe that will be sauce for the goose as well.

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    14. Re:Snowden is a hero by cold+fjord · · Score: 0

      You seem to be drunk-blogging. Can I ask what your beverage of choice is?

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    15. Re:Snowden is a hero by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Snowden is a hero

      He is, yes. Your continued attempts at smearing him are boring.

    16. Re:Snowden is a hero by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You gotta take the bad with the good. Snowden screwed the West. You can stop the misplaced hero worship any time.

    17. Re:Snowden is a hero by garyisabusyguy · · Score: 1

      Hi cold
      Not drinking anything harder than gatorade, but you certainly have to consider this side of it:

      The righties were terrified after the 2012 election when the millenials all went dem
      Even young republicans were being interviewed and saying that they saw nothing interesting in the gop
      The common wisdom was that if people voted for the same party in their first two elections, then they would stick with that party for life
      Next thing you know the gop opens up with every imaginable scandal, IRS blocking teaparty pacs, NSA tracking down capitol hill leakers... and then snowden... BAMMO

      They got a hit on that one,maybe it was pure luck, maybe they drew it up from the start, but it is hard to deny that it was exactly what they needed to scare people off of voting. At least the newbies. Don't know about you, but I've seen a lot of this agitprop before

      Have a nice evening

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    18. Re:Snowden is a hero by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Obviously you both have no clue about top level security concerns in such matters. Its actually eight letters:
      12345678

    19. Re:Snowden is a hero by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Oops, they are smart. They just changed it to 00000000, hey, if it's safe enough for nukes why not for wifi router?

    20. Re:Snowden is a hero by cold+fjord · · Score: 1

      Hi Gary....,

      Interesting theory, but it leaves some ground uncovered:
      2014 was an off year election and turnout for them is pretty much always lower.
      There were many democrats that were more than a little disenchanted with the Obama admin.
      Obamacare was already starting to give people sticker shock, and it will get worse.
      With the Republicans back in control of the House they could engage in meaninful oversight, especially on things that were "uninteresting " to the Dems. The IRS scandal is one of those. (I consider that one far more dangerous to the Republic than the NSA stuff.)
      2014 was far enough along that Obama began to own his administrations record - no more Bush!!

      Hard to say how 2016 will turn out. I can't believe the Democratic party will really run Hillary. New scandals emerge daily - Clinton Foundations funding, fudged tax records, foreign doners, Uranium for Russia, more to come .....

      Have a nice evening

      Thanks, you too.
      That Gatorade is great stuff.
      Cheers

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    21. Re:Snowden is a hero by SgtAaron · · Score: 1

      Oops, they are smart. They just changed it to 00000000, hey, if it's safe enough for nukes why not for wifi router?

      The Football's password has to be "NoMoreJayCutler", though I might be wrong about the capitilization. My other guess is "CubsWillWinWorldSeries".

      Just a guess ;-)

    22. Re: Snowden is a hero by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Keep fucking that chicken, champ.

    23. Re:Snowden is a hero by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      First, Snowden got a 3-5 year residence permit (or something) last year. Second, your question should be: "how can they prove these were Russians, let alone Russian government"?

    24. Re: Snowden is a hero by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You, your friend, and your chicken should get a room. Nobody here wants to hear it.

    25. Re:Snowden is a hero by cavreader · · Score: 1

      Foreign Intelligence agencies do not need warrants or any other legalistic justification when spying on foreign countries. The only rule is don't get caught. While you may hear speculation about the Chinese or Russian espionage attempts you never hear them announcing they have caught the US running around in their high security systems and I seriously doubt they are so secure that they are invulnerable to outside attacks. While the world decried the US phone intercepts of foreign leaders at the same time someone released an intercepted phone call originating from the US embassy discussing the situation in the Ukraine. The origin and release of those recorded diplomatic telephone calls were questioned by no one.

    26. Re:Snowden is a hero by FMtRIS · · Score: 1

      You are right on and that is the actual voting demographic. It doesn't matter anymore about taking sides because there is one side then the other side and then there is the REAL story which we will probably never hear about.

    27. Re:Snowden is a hero by bhiestand · · Score: 1

      Thanks kind of funny since the Russian army stil uses the goose step, and the US military never has. Interesting symbolism.

      To be fair, the US military does have a duck walk. Similar animal, just as goofy.

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    28. Re:Snowden is a hero by cold+fjord · · Score: 1

      Not really.

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    29. Re: Snowden is a hero by cold+fjord · · Score: 1

      You seem to be suffering from delusions. You should get help.

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    30. Re:Snowden is a hero by bhiestand · · Score: 1

      I can't tell if you are denying the similarity between ducks and geese, have not seen a duckwalk in open ranks, or just have some sort of humor aversion.

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  3. Re:Windows 10 Will Free Your Desktop by lucm · · Score: 1

    I was with you until the "high quality development tools" part.

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  4. Scapegoat by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    The chinese and russians (cyber-hordes) are coming!

  5. I'm sure they were important emails by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    From: barryo@whitehouse.gov
    To: bidenator@whitehouse.gov
    Subject: lincoln bedroom

    Hey Joe where da white wimmin at?!?
    Get us some bitches 4 the weekend!

    1. Re:I'm sure they were important emails by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

      wow, sexist and racist is apparently the way to get +4 these days....

    2. Re:I'm sure they were important emails by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wow, apparently pretending to be a perpetual victim and offended by every comment is the way to get -1 these days...

  6. Unclassified security by bug1 · · Score: 2

    I heard one of Obama's unclassified speeches, it was on TV, does that make me a hax0r ?

    1. Re:Unclassified security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      You're not doing it right! You're supposed to be SCAAAARREED!!! Hackers.Hacking. Computers. Scary. YOUR PRESIDENT! RUSSIANS! HACKERS!!!!

      Aren't you FRIGHTENED?!?!

      THEY'RE FOREIGN! We called them *hackers*! Scared yet?

      Damn. Guess we have to find another way to make out this is a problem and you need to be frightened.

      Fuck.

    2. Re:Unclassified security by garyisabusyguy · · Score: 1

      They call pretty much anybody that can run a script a hacker these days

      In the old days we used to call then spies

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    3. Re:Unclassified security by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Pretty shit spies if they're targeting an unclassified email server.

      Maybe they like reading emails from under-educated citizens complaining about attempts to give them health care?

  7. White House Email "Security" by pipingguy · · Score: 1

    "What difference, at this point, does it make?"

  8. Sorry, but isn't all email to and from by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    the president that is not classified, public record by law?

  9. So fucking what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    nobody cares what any foreign "hackers" (supposedly) do, when your own government is actively attacking networks of every other country.

    1. Re:So fucking what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Because they're not doing the exact same thing. The US is the only country doing it.

      YOU FILTHY PINKO!

  10. Karma by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Spy on the world and the world will spy on you.

    1. Re:Karma by Camel+Pilot · · Score: 0

      The clueless naivety of some slash posters can be hilarious.

    2. Re:Karma by MachineShedFred · · Score: 1

      Oh noes, don't read my unclassified email that is likely to be public record after a FOIA request!

      These are either the shittiest spies ever, or someone is trying to drum up nationalistic sentiment. I'll get worried when they're reading secure diplomatic cables that haven't already been posted to Wikileaks.

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  11. Re:Windows 10 Will Free Your Desktop by drinkypoo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I was with you until the "high quality development tools" part.

    Last I heard, Microsoft's IDE was still broadly considered to be one of the best in the business, if not the best. Granted, their revision control system is one of the worst, so they're not all winners.

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  12. Re:Windows 10 Will Free Your Desktop by lucm · · Score: 0

    *cough* Webmatrix

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  13. Re: Windows 10 Will Free Your Desktop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Hilarious, Windows 10 will be free cause the govt prolly secretly subsidized MS to get it onto as many PCs as possible. With backdoored apps like Onedrive, Skype, and Defender embedded in the OS being disable-only and non-removable it's apparent.

  14. Re:Windows 10 Will Free Your Desktop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm damn sick of these vermin libtard SJWs

  15. A Blackberry? by VAXcat · · Score: 2

    What is this, the 20th century?

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    1. Re:A Blackberry? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I have a theory that the use of Blackberries will become an Opsec concern before too long since the gov and contractors will be he only ones left carying them. Spot the fed at Defcon will get a little easier. Last I checked their were STIGS for iPhones and some use within the government but good luck purchasing a TAA (made out side China) compliant Apple product.

    2. Re:A Blackberry? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      HAHAH!! How about that airline food? It's terrible!! AMIRIGHT?

  16. Goose/Gander by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    In the words of the great James Baldwin:

    The world has never lacked for horrifying examples; but I do not believe that these examples are meant to be used as justification for our own crimes.

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    1. Re:Goose/Gander by PopeRatzo · · Score: 1

      I left off the most important part of the Baldwin quote, the second half:

      This perpetual justification empties the heart of all human feeling. The emptier our hearts become, the greater will be our crimes.

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    2. Re:Goose/Gander by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Which Baldwin brother, you say?

  17. Spies are just spying by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    What'd you expect them to do? They're just doing their jobs and keeping the country safe.

    Oh, wait, they're spying on us? Well then HOW DARE THEY.

  18. My question by randalware · · Score: 1

    Did those russian hackers read Hillary Clinton's email ?
    And did they save a copy ?

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    1. Re:My question by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's a fair question. The OPSEC of Hillary's email server is quite in doubt. She had closely-trusted consultants managing it, not government-trained information security specialists.

      While there is no evidence to suggest that there was an intrusion, the fact that such a high profile government official allowed apparent amateurs to manage the system means we may truly never know.

    2. Re:My question by Sarius64 · · Score: 1

      and you know this "evidence" from what source? Is this the same as her telling you she screened all her e-mails to only turn in the work related?

    3. Re:My question by rickb928 · · Score: 2

      Ya think?

      As if Hillary's server was any more secure than the White House UNclassified system?

      If you think Hillary's server wasn't compromised by any government, corporation, or force that cared to, you are naive. It was surely pwned over and over. It was also probably so pwned that it was a good place to study the various attacks.

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    4. Re:My question by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      http://politics.slashdot.org/s...

      Because Qualys, one of the top security scans out there, said her server security was awful?

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    5. Re:My question by MachineShedFred · · Score: 1

      It may also mean that it was more secure than what the "government-trained information security specialists" would have done.

      Isn't baseless speculation fun?

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  19. The irony... remember when he took office... by Karmashock · · Score: 2

    ... and his team laughed at the existing tech infrastructure? Maybe the previous administration got hacked as well or maybe the Russians weren't trying as hard then... but I find it ironic that these people that came in saying they were superior at everything keep proving themselves to be incompetent.

    Fuck the politics. Just remember back to when they were dissing the old email server/old it department and look at how much better the new people ran things... aka worse apparently. That's just funny.

    On purely nerd principles you have to have a bit of a laugh at the administration's expense. So much hubris.

    how many of the tech people obama brought along do you think knew how to defend against state sponsored hacking? I'm guessing zero.

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    1. Re:The irony... remember when he took office... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      They can be superior at everything and still be incompetent. The bar was set that low.

    2. Re:The irony... remember when he took office... by Runaway1956 · · Score: 0

      I'm sitting here, trying to think of one single liberal politico who was competent at anything. All that comes to mind, is Chapaquidik Ted's rum-running dad. Was the old man a liberal?

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    3. Re:The irony... remember when he took office... by Karmashock · · Score: 1

      In this case, I don't think so... I can't speak to every situation but on the case of the email... sounds like they were inferior.

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    4. Re:The irony... remember when he took office... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hey, these guys were good enough to find out they were hacked.

      Previous administration didn't even get that far.

      <\tongue in check>

    5. Re:The irony... remember when he took office... by Karmashock · · Score: 1

      You're joking but someone is actually is going to be shameless enough to make that argument.

      And my eyes shall roll like slot machine tumblers.

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    6. Re:The irony... remember when he took office... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's bad enough that we still have some partisan hacks sobbing "B-b-b-b-b-b-b-but B-b-b-bush!" in pitiful attempts at diverting criticism of Obama but bringing up Chappaquiddick (over 45 years after the incident) and Ted Kennedy (who died over 5 years ago and was never even president) almost makes it seem like blaming Bush for Obama's shortcomings sound rational.

      JFK and RFK were assassinated. Was Ted Kennedy deemed too drunk to be a threat to anyone smart enough not to get in the car with him?

    7. Re:The irony... remember when he took office... by Karmashock · · Score: 1

      You still have people trying to claim Ted Kennedy was the greatest statesman to have ever lived. No joke. I always get a headache when I hear that.

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  20. Transparency by edibobb · · Score: 2

    In Obama's transparent government, much touted 8 years ago, shouldn't unclassified email be public in the first place? Surely they didn't change the rules, did they?

    1. Re:Transparency by Coren22 · · Score: 1

      I am still unsure that Obama knows what transparent means.

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  21. Attribution by manu0601 · · Score: 2

    How can they know the attackers are Russian? I understand it would be nice for US government because it could help justifying the policy against Russia, but that will not make a proof.

    1. Re:Attribution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

      Please stop trying to reason about what the government tells the public about cybersecurity, it's just a ridiculous prospect.

    2. Re:Attribution by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      How can they know the attackers are Russian? I understand it would be nice for US government because it could help justifying the policy against Russia, but that will not make a proof.

      1. It is obvious, attack came from Russian proxy server....:)
      2. attacker said Hello in russisan: Zdrsatwuicie
      3. Eveybody alse already hacked that email long time ago.
      4. Atacker left races of russian accent in his emails.
      5. Don't question goverment, they never lie.

    3. Re:Attribution by AnatolySokolov · · Score: 1

      How can they know the attackers are Russian? I understand it would be nice for US government because it could help justifying the policy against Russia, but that will not make a proof.

      Nowadays All is Russia's Fault :-D

    4. Re:Attribution by manu0601 · · Score: 2

      Not Russia's fault, but Putin's fault. It is always better to blame a leader than a nation, as you can gab markets in the later once you manager to throw away the former.

  22. So... by Lord+Kano · · Score: 1

    No condescending comments from Barack Obama about how the 80s called and wants their foreign policy back?

    LK

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  23. Hillary is too smart for the Russians by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Dumb fucking Russians won't get access to the ex-Secretary of State's emails, I'll bet. She's looking like a genius now.

    And, let's be honest - would you want to risk hacking the Clinton's servers and finding homemade porn of Bill and Hillary? There's not enough mind bleach in the world to erase that shit, and you'll be scarred for life. She's one wiley old bitch.

  24. -1 (Humor impaired) by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    nt

  25. Re:Windows 10 Will Free Your Desktop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You haven't seen his wife. NOBODY fucks her. African warlords offered her to their troops, and NOBODY touched her. Would YOU walk up between two walls of blubber, and try to stick your tool into an abyss? Hell, some fool fell in back in 1929, and was never heard from again!

  26. in soviet russia by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    dem haxed emails read you!!!

  27. Russian hackers hack White House .. by DougPaulson · · Score: 1

    I realize the US establishment has a bur in its ass about Russian/Chinese/North Korean cyber terrorists, but would slashdot kindly not repeat such cyber BS on a technical forum.

  28. When we see e-mails about 9/11... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ... exposing the American government, then I'll start believing that people are hacking into government officials' e-mails...

  29. Good thing... by ai4px · · Score: 2

    Good thing Hillary's email wasn't in the State Department's servers and safety sequestered away on her home server.

  30. Hire them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    so that we can read Hillary's emails!

  31. Man bites dog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Considering the most likely US mail software supplier,
    it would be news if the Russians were not able to get in.

    Perhaps one should ask the Russians for the unpublished Clinton E-mails.

  32. Re:Windows 10 Will Free Your Desktop by g0bshiTe · · Score: 1

    Hrrmm Linux open source free as in air... vs Windows 10 free amnesty with the possibility of one day logging in to find I have to now pay a monthly subscription...

    Remind me which is the cult again?

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  33. Re:Windows 10 Will Free Your Desktop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This is /. - his wife looks amazing. Unfortunately, she kept her maiden name of jpeg ...

  34. That email from Nigeria? They opened it. by billstewart · · Score: 1

    That's the problem with being in the White House or State Department. Sometimes you really *do* want to read email from the corrupt ex-dictator of Nigeria.

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    Bill Stewart
    New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
  35. Re:Windows 10 Will Free Your Desktop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Um, Studio integrates with git. I know git is controversial and all, but it's not that bad...

  36. Somebody has to read them. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Honestly, Obama's unclassified emails:
    - Legalize it! 8%
    - Thanks Obama! 14%
    - 3nhance Y0ur Tr()Uzer Sn@ke etc. 78%

    That's your unclassified emails.

  37. No problem! by penguinoid · · Score: 2

    If he's got nothing to hide, he's got nothing to fear.

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    Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
  38. A private email server... by MoarSauce123 · · Score: 1

    ....would potentially be the better choice here. Haven't heard anything that those were breached. They read unclassified emails, not great, but unclassified means that the messages contained info that could have been obtained otherwise as well.