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4Chan Hackers Claim To Have Remotely Wiped John Podesta's iPhone and iPad (gizmodo.com)

An anonymous reader writes from a report via Gizmodo: For the past several days, WikiLeaks has been publishing thousands of emails belonging to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta -- and the leaks are starting to cause some serious damage. Gizmodo reports: "Many of the leaked emails contained contact info, cell phone numbers, and account data, none of which was redacted by Wikileaks before being posted. With this information accessible to anyone with the time and energy to read through it all, users on 4chan's /pol/ (politically incorrect) board were able to gain access to Podesta's Twitter account, tweeting a message in support of Trump. Imageboard posters also stumbled on an email containing Podesta's Apple ID -- and appear to have exploited it. 'iPad/iPhone info and data wiped out,' a post on Endchan claimed, show screenshots of what seems to be the hacker gaining access to Find My iPhone using Podesta's credentials. If Podesta's Apple ID was compromised, it stands to reason that his iCloud account was similarly vulnerable. And sure enough, Redditor's on r/The_Donald claim Podesta's iCloud data was downloaded. A hacker known as CyberZeist also appears to have uncovered the passwords to dozens of senators' email addresses, as well as social security numbers and credit card info for many Democrats including Vice President Joe Biden, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and acting Chair of the DNC Donna Brazile. The information was posted to pastebin.

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  1. uncuck urself by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    man up and tell her to stop doing stupid shit, rather than whining about it on slashdot like a beta faggot, u cuck

  2. Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by dcollins117 · · Score: -1, Troll

    His statement was

    I'm automatically attracted to beautiful [women] - I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything ... Grab them by the pussy. You can do anything.

    That's him bragging about sexual assault and saying he gets away with it because he believes himself to be above the law. Nixon was impeached for thinking the same thing.

    Given at various times Trump has made disparaging remarks about blacks, hispanics, muslims, immigrants, women, war veterans, reality show contestants, beauty pageant winners, and said he'd like to bang his own daughter who is going to vote for him? White male dumbfucks is the only demographic he hasn't yet insulted.

    Even top level Republicans are saying they'd rather vote for Hillary Clinton. Anyone who thinks Donald Trump has a chance of being elected is entirely delusional.

  3. Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by MightyMartian · · Score: 1, Troll

    He doesn't have a chance. There is literally no precedent in the modern era of a candidate coming from as far behind as Trump is less than a month out. He's done, finished, kaput, and he seems to know it, as he transforms his campaign into some sort of bizarre attack machine lashing out at everybody and everything.

    The reality is he never had a chance, and I doubt he ever believed he did. But a lot of rather angry people and some pretty incompetent competition during the Primaries handed probably the most unsuitable big ticket candidate in half a century the nomination.

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  4. Re: Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by MightyMartian · · Score: -1, Troll

    You mean "alleged victims", and since Bill Clinton isnnotnon the ballot this is little more than a red herring. Even if it were true, that wouldn't make Trump's statements correct.

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  5. Re:Has Wikileaks jumped the shark? by quantaman · · Score: -1, Troll

    In California, the night before the primary election, there was an announcement on the news that Clinton had won. Guess what, turnout of Democratic electors was lower than expected. And the claim that Clinton had already won: false. Was that false claim an accident? I don't think so.

    Why not? The primary was already over, the only possibility of Sanders being the nominee was an external force (scandal or health) forcing Clinton to step down, even if Sanders did great people would just assume it was because Clinton voters had prematurely assumed it was over, and she would still have a huge lead in pledged delegates to win the primary.

    You really think the Clinton team is going to risk a campaign ending scandal over a meaningless primary?

    Frankly that's why people don't take you seriously. You're convinced you see a conspiracy in every possible place even when some basic reasoning demonstrates that a conspiracy makes absolutely no sense.

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