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Clinton Campaign Breached By Hackers

An anonymous reader writes: Hillary Clinton's campaign network was breached by hackers targeting several large Democratic organizations, Reuters reports. Clinton's campaign spokesperson Nick Merrill confirmed the hack in a statement. 'An analytics data program maintained by the DNC, and used by our campaign and a number of other entities, was accessed as part of the DNC hack. Our campaign computer system has been under review by outside security experts. To date, they have found no evidence that our internal systems have been compromised,' he said.

The hack follows on the heels of breaches at the Democratic National Committee and at the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee earlier this year. More than 19,000 emails from DNC officials were published on WikiLeaks just prior to the Democratic National Convention, casting a shadow over the proceedings. Some security experts and U.S. officials have attributed the breaches to Russian operatives, although the origin of the email leak is less certain.

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  1. Love it and stay by Okian+Warrior · · Score: 5, Insightful

    America is a liberal country - Love it or leave it.

    Point 1: America is 38% conservative and 24% Liberal. (source).

    Point 2: "Love it or leave it" is effectively "shut up and sit down". It calls for a suppression of free speech typical of tyrannical, abusive dictatorship. Turkey can say "love it or leave it" with some justification. America cannot.

    That criminal witch is untouchable [...]

    Insults are the domain of the Democrats, have some couth. Republicans don't generally use insult as a substitute for rational thinking, that's a Democratic play.

    We could easily build stories about Hillary being Marie Antoinette ("let them eat cake"), or Lucrecia Borgia (for all Clinton's opponents who have died under mysterious circumstances), or even Lilith ("Mother of demons"). Some of them would even have a rational basis. It would be a counterpoint to Trump being Hilter, Stalin, or Cthulhu.

    But we don't, because we believe the head rules the heart. We have smart people here at Slashdot, we don't have to descend to common name calling.

    "Heart rules the head", IOW emotional thinking, is what Democrats do.

    We don't *need* to spout lies or insults.

    Don't descend to their level.

    (And if you're a Democrat reading this and are angered: take the challenge. Post a reason why Hillary would be better than Trump as president, without outright lying, insulting, or wishful fantasy. In other words, cite their stated positions instead of "he'll do *this*" or "she'll do *that*. I don't think anyone can, but if anyone can, they'd be here on Slashdot.)

  2. Re:Good by tripleevenfall · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Remember everyone, the DNC can be hacked and the Clinton campaign can be hacked, but there's NO WAY IN THE WORLD that Hillary's homebrew email server was hacked. Nope. Not possible. Pure as the driven snow.

  3. Re:Untouchable criminal by ogdenk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Hateful speech is not a crime. This is not the EU. You can be a NeoNazi and drape your house in swastikas if you want. It's only a hate crime once you start gassing people or telling other people to do so.

  4. Re:Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Who cares if her server was hacked? It never stored any classified information, and if hacked, all they would get is her yoga routines & wedding plans for her daughter.

    We have the assurances of the Clinton herself to validate that truth with.

  5. Re:Untouchable criminal by Mashiki · · Score: 5, Informative

    You mean besides the part where the Benghazi embassy requested extra security and she along with her underlings said there wasn't any money for it? But they could come up with the money for electric car chargers for the embassies in Europe?

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    Om, nomnomnom...
  6. Re:Good by AlphaBro · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, who cares if one of the most powerful people in the world violated federal law and put national security at risk. Stop obsessing about it.

  7. Re:Oh No! All those Yoga Routines Stolen! by AlphaBro · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Let's ignore the emails about rigging the election and instead focus on how these hackers are trying to rig the election.

  8. Re:Good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Oh, laws were violated. They just were excused. Comey is on record saying that anyone else Hillary caught doing what Hillary did with the same evidence, would be prosecuted. How does that sit with you? I guess it sits pretty good as long as some ass official says it's ok for one but not for anyone else. Try getting past your cognitive dissonance. You're failed logic is the pillar of corruption.