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A 15-Year-Old Convinced Verizon He Was the Head of the CIA (newsweek.com)
schwit1 shares an interesting story. Newsweek reports:
A British teenager managed to obtain access to sensitive U.S. plans about intelligence operations in different Middle East countries by acting as former CIA Director John Brennan, a court heard on Friday. Kane Gamble, 18, researched Brennan and used the information he gathered to speak to an internet company and persuade call handlers to give him access to the spy chief's email inbox in 2015. He pretended to be both a Verizon employee and Brennan to access Brennan's internet account.
Astonishingly, Gamble managed to gain access to Brennan's emails and his addressbook, as well as his iCloud storage. He even managed to remotely access the iPad of Brennan's wife... Gamble, aged 15 at the time, also persuaded a helpdesk at the FBI that he was the then deputy director Mark Giuliano... In October 2017, Gamble pleaded guilty to 10 charges, including eight charges of "performing a function with intent to secure unauthorized access" to the computers and two of "unauthorized modification of computer material."
Astonishingly, Gamble managed to gain access to Brennan's emails and his addressbook, as well as his iCloud storage. He even managed to remotely access the iPad of Brennan's wife... Gamble, aged 15 at the time, also persuaded a helpdesk at the FBI that he was the then deputy director Mark Giuliano... In October 2017, Gamble pleaded guilty to 10 charges, including eight charges of "performing a function with intent to secure unauthorized access" to the computers and two of "unauthorized modification of computer material."
Not only I.T. but most categories.
Government workers are often chosen due to aspects unrelated to ability.
We shouldn't expect much from them.
Unlike private businesses, where employees are chosen purely on merit.
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You are welcome on my lawn.
Wow, that's a really long post for insisting you believe in magical invisible pink unicorns. What, you don't believe in magical invisible pink unicorns? But you have to! You can't prove they don't exist!
Waste of talent in prison
Hopefully Verizon, et alia, will learn something from this.
Is this implying that the CIA director keeps secret information on things like ipads and non-secure cloud storage????
....and whom do you represent please?
Yes, they will accord little to no serious air time to this story. Instead, they will promote the so called [Russian] "collusion", something I have never bought.
Of course, why wouldn't they? One issue will have an effect on a tiny group of people over their lifetimes while the other issue has the potential to impact just about every person on the planet. Also, even if you don't believe it, you should see this how the president does, "think of the ratings!"
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
If this: "military operations and intelligence operations in Afghanistan and Iran" ...is the kind of thing that John Brennen keeps on an ISPs servers, instead of secured government systems, then he needs the cell right next to Hillary.
Oh, right. They are our betters. Laws don't apply to them.
Enjoy life! This is not a dress rehearsal.
The question is, is any organization actually competent with IT?
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And he likes to call them all, "Donald".
You are welcome on my lawn.
The USA government types are incompetent with IT.
Isn't this about Verizon failing, not the gov?
The Slashdot reader types are incompetent with reading.
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The easy answer is yes.
I yesterday had a mandatory 'internet security' training.
The trainer is a 'high guy' in the security department/IT department.
He claimed, a 'reply-to' tag/field is added to an received email when 'the mail server' recognizes that the real adress from where the email came is not the same as in the 'from field'.
And then again, if 'from' and 'reply-to' does not match, the mail is flagged as spam or suspicious.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Yes, they will accord little to no serious air time to this story
Good job denying reality. It's on literally every main stream media site.
SJW n. One who posts facts.
"Isn't this about Verizon failing, not the gov?"
Largely. However in a perfect world Brennan's Verizon accounts would contain nothing but emails to his family and friends, ecommerce orders and confirmations, and the usual spam. All his government traffic would be from his .gov account and even that would only contain unclassified material. Classified stuff goes by other means.
Got all that?
Think it works?
You can't see ANYTHING from a car, You've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk...Edward Abbey