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Officials Say Russian Hackers Read Obama's Unclassified Emails
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.
"Putin, I know you are snooping here. Give back the Superbowl ring and Crimea, you thief. And wave Hello to Mrs. Palin for me."
Table-ized A.I.
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 was with you until the "high quality development tools" part.
lucm, indeed.
I heard one of Obama's unclassified speeches, it was on TV, does that make me a hax0r ?
"What difference, at this point, does it make?"
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.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
What is this, the 20th century?
There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet.
In the words of the great James Baldwin:
You are welcome on my lawn.
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.
Did those russian hackers read Hillary Clinton's email ?
And did they save a copy ?
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... 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.
I've decided to stop wasting my time responding to AC trolls/sockpuppets... so if you want a response from me... login.
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?
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.
No condescending comments from Barack Obama about how the 80s called and wants their foreign policy back?
LK
"Hi. This is my friend, Jack Shit, and you don't know him." - Lord Kano
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.
Good thing Hillary's email wasn't in the State Department's servers and safety sequestered away on her home server.
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?
I am Bennett Haselton! I am Bennett Haselton!
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.
Slashdot still doesnâ(TM)t support Unicode after it was added to the HTML standard in 1997.
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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If he's got nothing to hide, he's got nothing to fear.
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....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.