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Clinton’s campaign used security word ‘password’ allowing hackers to change course of election
The Sun ^ | January 4, 2017 | Hannah Crouch

Posted on 01/04/2017 9:57:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange made the shocking revelation and said a 14-year-old could have hacked into John Podesta’s computer.

Assange also claimed Clinton made “almost no attempt” to secure her private emails

Speaking to Fox News, Mr Assange, said: “We published several…emails which show Podesta responding to a phishing email.

“Podesta gave out that his password was the word ‘password’.

“His own staff said this email that you’ve received, this is totally legitimate.

“So this is something….a 14-year-old kids could have hacked Podesta that way.”

Mr Assange also claimed Clinton made “almost no attempt” to keep her private emails secure which featured in more than 50,000 leaked documents published by Wikileaks....

(Excerpt) Read more at thesun.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Politics
KEYWORDS: darwinaward; hillary; podesta; trump; wikileaks
FULL TITLE: PASSWORD FOR DUMMIES Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman used security word ‘password’ allowing pro-Donald Trump hackers to change the course of US election
1 posted on 01/04/2017 9:57:57 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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2 posted on 01/04/2017 10:06:26 PM PST by delete306
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I thought he used ‘p@ssword’. In any case, it wouldn’t have mattered what the password he used since he actually gave it away in a phishing email.


3 posted on 01/04/2017 10:06:45 PM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hackers did not change the course of the election, Clinton did.

She made a relatively few public appearances and they were poorly attended, instead focusing on $30,000 per plate fund raisers.

She paid for violence.

She called tens of millions of voters “deplorable”.

She blamed everyone but herself for her e-mail problems.

She has no one to blame but herself.


4 posted on 01/04/2017 10:10:41 PM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah right. If not for that screw-up Hillary would have won. These dims have been drinking from cups.


5 posted on 01/04/2017 10:14:12 PM PST by semaj (Audentes fortuna juvat: Fortune favors the bold. Be Bold FRiends.)
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Informing voters untruthful information that changes the outcome of an election is unethical, however informing voters the truth about a candidate is not unethical regardless if it effect the way people vote!

Illegal hacking is a separate crime altogether , if obama wants to get tough, he should have started with the Chinese for hacking 20 million government workers personal files, and also Hilary for disobeying security rules and using a private server, where the Chinese and every hostile government could read , therefore the manipulation of language about selective outrage of so call adversely effecting the election is just BS

6 posted on 01/04/2017 10:36:01 PM PST by seastay
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To: semaj

Gods own hands screwed with their knobs.

I believe he has again blessed the US.


7 posted on 01/04/2017 10:39:50 PM PST by Texas Fossil ((Texas is not where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind & Attitude!))
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The arrogance of The Elite.


8 posted on 01/04/2017 10:47:35 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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Well, I guess that puts the media spin that evil hackers hacked into DNC password protected files in a new light.


9 posted on 01/04/2017 10:55:41 PM PST by rdcbn (.... when Poets buy guns, tourist season is over ......d)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hackers did NOT change the course of the election. Incredibly stupid and arrogant Democrats threw away the election. Well, maybe not. . .maybe we wanted a leader for a change.


10 posted on 01/04/2017 10:56:28 PM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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To: Ray76

I think she made few public appearances because she was worried about collapsing and falling off a stage.


11 posted on 01/05/2017 12:03:53 AM PST by doug from upland (Are we dreaming or is Hillary finally really gone?)
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If the Rats lost the election because of “hacking”, they did it to themselves by stealing the primary for Hillary (colluding with the media and the DNC itself using superdelegates to override the ‘popular vote’ Hillary voters feel is so sacred).


12 posted on 01/05/2017 12:29:42 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: gspurlock

Brexit and upheaval in Germany and other elections are all being blamed on “fake news” and “collusion/interference”.

The damned globalists can’t stand letting the people have a say in their future.


13 posted on 01/05/2017 12:31:13 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: doug from upland

She’s an ailing psychotic criminal.


14 posted on 01/05/2017 12:34:38 AM PST by Ray76 (DRAIN THE SWAMP)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Reminds me of that joke.

“I change my password frequently, and I haven’t been hacked ever! But boy is my dog sure confused!”

Oh - some of the crap on the net is used to try to figure out your passwords. Those quiz things that even show up on FR sometimes, like “What kind of music are you?, etc.”

What is your favorite color?
What town were you born in?
Etc.


15 posted on 01/05/2017 12:43:40 AM PST by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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“Hackers did not change the course of the election...”

It is truly amazing that the lie that the leaks changed the election has become the Big Lie that some conservative commentators are beginning to repeat.

I just happened to turn on the radio just in time to hear a Rush sub, Buck Sexton, condemn Assange for being a Russian operative.

Last night, the local NBC affiliate in their ten o’clock news cast was promoting that idea, and how suspicious it was that Trump was not believing it. They even ran a clip of Senator Linda Graham saying how pathetic it was that Trump was criticizing the patriots in the Obama intelligence community.


16 posted on 01/05/2017 2:44:21 AM PST by odawg
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To: semaj

Well at least Hillary will get a front row seat to watch someone else get her job.


17 posted on 01/05/2017 2:56:17 AM PST by ballplayer (hvexx NKK c bmytit II iyijjhihhiyyiyiyi it iyiiy II i hi jiihi ty yhiiyihiijhijjyjiyjiiijyuiiijihyii)
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To: Texas Fossil

It sure appears that way.


18 posted on 01/05/2017 3:07:54 AM PST by CommieCutter ("Trump is god emperor and he will win." -- some hacker)
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