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Hillary Gets Guccifered
The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 6, 2016 | Kimberly Strassel

Posted on 05/06/2016 7:18:00 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion

The Chinese are bright - even brighter than Romanian taxi drivers. They employ hackers whose only job is to infiltrate the U.S. government. Those hackers have supercomputers at their service. They have lists upon lists of relatives and friends and aides of powerful people. When they break into accounts, they don’t publicize it.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: clintongate; guccifer; hacker; hillary2016; hillaryemails
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Like other sensitive government agencies the State Department was frequently target and increasingly sophisticated phishing attempts. When we first arrived at State, these attempts were similar to the fraudulent emails many Americans experience at home on their personal computers. The often sloppy early attempts to penetrate our secure systems were easy to spot. But by 2012, the sophistication and fluency had advanced considerably, with the attackers impersonating State Department officials in an attempt to dupe their colleagues into opening legitimate looking attachments.

When we traveled to sensitive places like Russia, we often received warnings from the Department security officials to leave our BlackBerries, laptops—anything that communicated with the outside world—on the plane, with their batteries removed to prevent foreign intelligence services from compromising them. Even in friendly settings we conducted business under strict security precautions, taking care where and how we read secret material and used our technology. One means of protecting material was to read it inside an opaque tent in a hotel room. In less well equipped settings we were told to improvise by reading sensitive material with a blanket over our head. I felt like I was 10 years old again, reading covertly by flashlight under the covers after bedtime. On more than one occasion I was cautioned not to speak freely in my own hotel room.

And it wasn't just US government agencies and officials who were targets. American companies were also in the crosshairs. I fielded calls from frustrated CEOs complaining about aggressive theft of an intellectual property and trade secrets, even breaches of their home computers. To better focus our efforts against this increasingly serious threat, I appointed the Department’s first Coordinator for Cyber Issues in February 2011. - From Hard Choices, by Hillary Rodham Clinton (Apr 28, 2015).


1 posted on 05/06/2016 7:18:00 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

Wow. Good find.


2 posted on 05/06/2016 7:29:34 AM PDT by doug from upland
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
The Norks are also in action....here they are with the only NK computer on the internet hacking into some Humma/Hillary videos in Hilliary’s server.
3 posted on 05/06/2016 7:30:56 AM PDT by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion
But even with all that "knowledge", she still insisted that all her official State Department email go through he home email server. So she knowingly put her country's security at risk just to be able to destroy any evidence if people started to ask any probing questions. She could cackle and feign ignorance (like with a cloth?) but in that excerpt she admits knowledge that her computer would be the target of the intelligence agencies of many countries.

Imagine if she insisted that all official State Department email be left in an unlocked mail box in front of her New York house and how easy it would be to steal top secret information from it.

4 posted on 05/06/2016 7:31:46 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (An orange jumpsuit is the new black pantsuit.)
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

An IT manager at General Dynamics, where we worked, told me; we get hit about 30,000 times a day. I asked if it was the Chinese. He said, no, mostly from California universities.

The only security failures I am aware of were caused by individual users who violated policies by sending their personal emails to work so they could read them there. They’d introduce viruses that in at least one case, caused IT to shut down the entire multi-divisional intranet. I have no idea what was lost, if anything. The point is that serious breaches can be caused by low level employees not following the rules. I’ve seen people fired for plugging their USB phone charger into their PC.

Imagine what Hillary’s escapade exposed the government to. A black guy asked me enthusiastically what I thought of Hillary. Probably because I was paying him for a job and we were in transit he sat quietly through my half hour response.


5 posted on 05/06/2016 7:33:03 AM PDT by Gen.Blather
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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-gets-guccifered-1462487970


6 posted on 05/06/2016 7:35:38 AM PDT by Art in Idaho (Conservatism is the only Hope for Western Civilization.)
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To: spokeshave

Man, those hats are small. You would think they could make them larger, so they don’t look so odd. /s


7 posted on 05/06/2016 7:40:35 AM PDT by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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To: spokeshave

I get the note-taking Nork officers (generals?). That’s standard behavior in North Korea. But using binoculars while at the computer is a new one.


8 posted on 05/06/2016 7:46:49 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: HombreSecreto

In most Communist systems, military hats are very large.


9 posted on 05/06/2016 7:49:18 AM PDT by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali soli o feccia.)
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To: hanamizu

It always interests me on how many rows of ribbons they have. Here’s some 60-year old general, with fifteen rows and you just have to wonder....how often do you get a medal in NK, for doing nothing?


10 posted on 05/06/2016 7:53:35 AM PDT by pepsionice
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To: hanamizu
But using binoculars while at the computer is a new one

Maybe he is short sighted....

11 posted on 05/06/2016 7:57:04 AM PDT by spokeshave (Somewhere there is a ceiling for Trump.....Yeah, it's called The Oval Office)
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To: pepsionice

“It always interests me on how many rows of ribbons they have. Here’s some 60-year old general, with fifteen rows and you just have to wonder....how often do you get a medal in NK, for doing nothing?”


If you have lived to be a 60-year general in the NK military, you deserve every medal you got.

Each of them is the “Not Getting a Bullet in the Back of the Head” ribbon of the year.


12 posted on 05/06/2016 7:59:25 AM PDT by freedomlover
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To: hanamizu

I’d like to have the fruit salad and gold star concessions


13 posted on 05/06/2016 7:59:47 AM PDT by meatloaf
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...how often do you get a medal in NK, for doing nothing?

You probably get at least one medal for every purge you survive. Over the course of a career that's a lot of medals.

14 posted on 05/06/2016 8:00:55 AM PDT by Leaning Right (Why am I holding this lantern? I am looking for the next Reagan.)
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To: doug from upland

Be back b


15 posted on 05/06/2016 8:01:47 AM PDT by thinden
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To: HombreSecreto

i love freepers..... lol


16 posted on 05/06/2016 8:08:07 AM PDT by sdpatriot ("Thank you very much, sdpatriot!! Smooch!" - from JR - send him a buck!!!!)
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To: spokeshave

Don’t make short jokes about Glorius Leader!


17 posted on 05/06/2016 8:27:54 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: LucyT; null and void; Nachum

PING


18 posted on 05/06/2016 8:43:09 AM PDT by bitt (If Obama is really worried about the children, he should be bombing planned parenthood.)
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To: pepsionice

You get a ribbon for every year you survive without being executed by the Kims ;)


19 posted on 05/06/2016 9:43:55 AM PDT by Boogieman
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So in the age of technology, the Dems run a candidate who puts sensitive material on an unsecured server and claims total ignorance about matters of modern technology?


20 posted on 05/06/2016 10:43:40 AM PDT by Maverick68
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