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Assange reveals Podesta’s password was ‘password’
American Thinker ^ | January 4, 2017 | Thomas Lifson

Posted on 01/04/2017 7:41:11 AM PST by detective

Julian Assange summed up the shakiness of the claim that Russia “hacked the election” when he told Sean Hannity, “A 14-year-old kid could have hacked Podesta that way.”

Not only is it pithy, but it relates to things everyone experiences: our personal vulnerabilities to people other than Russian intelligence and the constant hectoring we all receive to change our passwords frequently and use special characters and numbers in long nonsense sequences.

The “intelligence community” seems to be staking its reputation on Podesta’s email becoming public being the work of super-hackers in Moscow.  C’mon – that nerdy, maladjusted kid down the block could have done it. 

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; Russia
KEYWORDS: assange; assangeinterview; emails; podesta; podestaemails; russia; wikileaks
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The media and so called "intelligence officials" have said that the Russians hacked both the DNC and the RNC but only released info on DNC. They also said the hacking skills required were so sophisticated that only the Russians could have possibly done it.

Republicans said the RNC was never hacked and that they can prove it.

That exposes one lie.

Podesta said he lost his phone about the time of the so called "hacking". Podesta also set his password as password.

This exposes another lie.

And Assange has repeatedly said from the beginning that the Russians were not involved.

1 posted on 01/04/2017 7:41:11 AM PST by detective
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To: detective

How is it that Podesta is receiving no backlash from hilLIARy for her loss.

They need him to keep supplying ‘pizza’? With yummy ‘sauce’?


2 posted on 01/04/2017 7:45:06 AM PST by Mr. K ( Trump kicked her ass 2-to-1 if you remove all the voter fraud.)
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To: detective
Translates to ПАРОЛЬ in Russian.
3 posted on 01/04/2017 7:45:42 AM PST by Rebelbase (ABC/NBC/CBS/MSNBC/PBS/CNN/FOX are THE LEGACY MEDIA)
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To: detective

4 posted on 01/04/2017 7:46:02 AM PST by patro
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I can't believe this! Liberals are always the most intelligent among us...after all, that's what they always tell us!

Hillary - the smartest woman in the world.
Obama - the smartest person ever to be President of the US.

Obama is SO smart, that they have to hide his academic records, because us mere mortals can't handle seeing that level of intelligence.

5 posted on 01/04/2017 7:46:05 AM PST by Cowboy Bob
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To: detective

Actually, I think it was p@ssword. Not that it’s much better. And according to his emails in wikileaks his brother said he is a crypto hobbyist. Not a very good one.


6 posted on 01/04/2017 7:49:18 AM PST by Vic S
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But, but, but...they are so much smarter than the rest of us. They are the only ones that can bring us to a utopia, because we are too stupid to figure out what is good for us.

Yeah, right.

Well, they’re galactic-level stupidity and arrogance cost them the election. G-d works in mysterious ways, but this is one of His old tricks - hubris.


7 posted on 01/04/2017 7:49:35 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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“Assange reveals Podesta’s password was password”

LMAO. I can’t believe that Obama expelled 35 Russian diplomats over this crap.


8 posted on 01/04/2017 7:50:20 AM PST by Helicondelta (Deplorable)
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To: detective
...and the password is


9 posted on 01/04/2017 7:50:22 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Ancesthntr; detective

“they’re” should be “their”

I guess that I need more coffee - but at least “they’re” and “their” are not my passwords.


10 posted on 01/04/2017 7:50:52 AM PST by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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Wow, thought he would use something more sophisticated like letmein.


11 posted on 01/04/2017 8:03:48 AM PST by AU72
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That was my first thought. “It’s like the combination some idiot would have on his luggage.”


12 posted on 01/04/2017 8:04:18 AM PST by MGG
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It is a simple password, but in Podesta’s case wasn’t the hack the result of Pedestal actually giving the hackers his password through a phishing email?


13 posted on 01/04/2017 8:08:41 AM PST by posterchild
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To: detective

“That’s the kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!” ~Dark Helmet


14 posted on 01/04/2017 8:14:04 AM PST by Heavyrunner (Socialize this.)
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HRC Clinton ‘lost’ around 13 mobile devices while SOS, according to the FBI.

‘Lost’ may be a euphemism for she took a hammer to them.

But maybe some of them genuinely were ‘lost’. How exactly would that happen - she is never alone, always has a driver and security detail. How would a device get lost?

Perhaps one of her sycophants stole a device or two from her. Heck, maybe the Weiner computer was one such device - taken for anti-Arkancide purposes.

Anyway, this clown posse had the worst possible cyber security known to man. It didn’t take Borris and Natasha to crack their code.

And there’s this from Chelsea Clinton (via wikileaks):

“– that Ilya physically saw/caught Justin a couple of days ago reading his bberry and loading the same spyware onto his computer that he loaded onto Bari’s computer” - translation: somebody caught aid Justin Cooper putting spyware on Bubba’s Blackberry.

When you operate in a pit of vipers, everybody spies on everybody else.


15 posted on 01/04/2017 8:14:11 AM PST by lacrew
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jpodesta
p@ssw0rd

https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/22335


16 posted on 01/04/2017 8:14:47 AM PST by VitacoreVision
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To: Cowboy Bob
Obama is SO smart, that they have to hide his academic records,
because us mere mortals can't handle seeing that level of intelligence.

LOL....good one.

17 posted on 01/04/2017 8:15:57 AM PST by Liz (The Clintons' embracing humanitarian relief is like the Sopranos' embracing waste mgmt.)
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Haha...proving once again how innately ignorant Democrats are. Wasn’t Hillary’s equally dumb?


18 posted on 01/04/2017 8:16:54 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: Vic S
I think it was p@ssword.

by accident probably. He meant to put in the a.

19 posted on 01/04/2017 8:19:16 AM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie
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“password”? Let me guess. It was case sensitive, so he figured nobody would ever think to type the “P” in lowercase? Regular mastermind.


20 posted on 01/04/2017 8:26:10 AM PST by Eleutheria5 (“If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism.)
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