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Posted by m-hodges 2 days ago

Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email(www.reuters.com)
https://ddosecrets.org/article/kash-patel-emails

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/03/doj-confirms-fbi...

447 points | 527 commentspage 3
sv123 2 days ago|
Clowns, all the way down.
mikkupikku 2 days ago||
Unfair to clowns, a noble profession.
jjtheblunt 2 days ago|||
counterexample is serial killer John Wayne Gacy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy#/media/File:Jo...

xeonmc 2 days ago|||
Prefer the title “jesters”
roysting 2 days ago|||
That’s arguably even more objectionable of a term. Jester’s role was often a critical one in the court system, serving as deliverer of uncomfortable messages in light hearted ways and often also confidant to the monarch.

These rather evil and cruel bumbling fools are an insult to clowns and jesters alike. Maybe “fool” is the applicable term.

bryanrasmussen 2 days ago|||
the sensible middle of the road between clowns on the left and the jokers on the right.
seemaze 2 days ago||||
Its hard to keep this smile off my face
mixmastamyk 2 days ago|||
…here I am stuck in the middle with you… ♪
kstrauser 2 days ago||
flicks open a straight razor
Jordanpomeroy 2 days ago|||
When the clown moves into the palace it doesn’t make him the king, the palace becomes a circus
themafia 2 days ago|||
It always will be. The FBI is scandal prone and a stranger to success. I'm not entirely sure a large federal apparatus is needed anymore. It maybe made sense when local police were poorly trained and psychics were seen as credible investigative tools, but, I think we're well past that. I think it should be chopped into 50 pieces and handed over to the states to operate. A small coordinating office is all that should be left.
kjellsbells 2 days ago||
Username checks out, I guess!

Seriously though I'm not so sanguine about local forces. Assuming the local PD is well trained seems like a big if, to say nothing of the risk of localized pressure or corruption. Eg would the local sheriff of a county with a very large employer be able to effectively investigate and bring charges against it? Being able to bring in federal LE brings a certain impartiality to those sorts of cases.

themafia 2 days ago||
With FOIA and Body Worn Cameras I think we're in far better position to demand accountability from local police and sheriffs. Two tools the FBI are not compelled to comply with or deploy and which many state police agencies also resist using.

In any case I think you'd want to remove their enforcement mandate and instead refocus them on information gathering and rapid secure distribution, tailored forensic investigations, and on creating, monitoring and refining police best practices and training programs.

jameson 2 days ago|||
I wonder how many others are hacked but remain undiscovered
longislandguido 2 days ago||
Considering 95% of spam that hits my inbox originates from compromised Gmail accounts, I'd say it's a few.

Because Google is too big to fail, all Gmail traffic is essentially whitelisted and they can't be bothered to do anything about it.

detourdog 2 days ago|||
Almost all phishing attempts at my domain are from google. Many Norton subscription bills for around $350. I report every single one to google. I can’t believe they aren’t using there AI to figure this out.
mcmcmc 2 days ago||
> I can’t believe they aren’t using there AI to figure this out.

Why would they burn compute on it when they have zero incentive to fix the problem?

themafia 2 days ago||||
Meanwhile have a complaint volume of more than 0.1% and they'll consider you extremely suspicious and start actively interfering with your deliveries.

Then you get into the forgotten early 2000s era google "postmaster tools" to try to poke through the chicken entrails to divine the nature of your issue.

gzread 2 days ago|||
Google was banned from Usenet once, so there's hope. Every single provider was so fed up with spam they just blocked the whole network.
maximilianburke 2 days ago|||
More than clowns, they’re all fools.
roysting 2 days ago||
Not just that, clowns and jesters played critical and culturally significant roles.

“Fools” is not only not an insult to clowns and jesters, but it’s far more accurate.

I would even say without any necessary religious perspective, these people are like the origins of the term and concept of “demons”, entities representing the most heinous and nefarious instincts and impulses of humanity so vile and repulsive that they had to be emanations of hell. How would you even makes sense of such evil behavior back then. They didn’t know what the dark triad of personality flaws was, narcissism, psychopathy, and machiavellianism (yes, I understand it’s an erroneous label, but it’s the one used).

longislandguido 2 days ago||
Did you write the software that allowed him to get hacked in the first place?
ck2 2 days ago||
I'm sorry but nothing can ever be more embarrassing for that man who wrote this book to get that job

https://www.amazon.com/Plot-Against-King-Kash-Patel/dp/19555...

What an absolute clown

But far more seriously, imagine the danger he has put this country into by firing so many critical people, some specifically and uniquely for Iran and Middle-East defense

Let's hope we don't get another 9/11 in the next 1000 days because they are completely unprepared and won't ever see it coming, maybe even on purpose

autoexec 2 days ago||
> Let's hope we don't get another 9/11 in the next 1000 days because they are completely unprepared and won't ever see it coming, maybe even on purpose

Why would anyone bother to attack us now? This entire administration has done more to make The US weak and vulnerable than any outside attacker could have hoped to accomplish. They can just sit back and watch rome burn

gverrilla 2 days ago||
> Why would anyone bother to attack us now?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...

autoexec 2 days ago||
We've given a lot of people a lot of reasons to hate us sure, but no matter how much you hate someone, if you see them kicking their own ass it just makes sense to let them finish before you jump in.
Oarch 2 days ago||
How am I only finding out about this now... my sides
Ms-J 2 days ago||
This is great.

It couldn't happen to a more corrupt person and organization!

The Handala group has promised even more.

Get it while it's hot!

throwawaysoxjje 2 days ago||
But his emails!
basisword 2 days ago||
How the heck is the buried down to page 4 after one hour?? The head of the FBI having his email hacked is a pretty big tech story.
rationalist 2 days ago||
Lots of personal opinions and low-effort jabs in this thread.
nickburns 2 days ago||
Negative voting.
caaqil 2 days ago|||
If you read the news with enough cynicism, you'll realize that rules like formality, password strength or cybersecurity hygiene are for the average Joes, not the morons/perverts who run the world.
Razengan 2 days ago||
Oh a while ago everything bad that happened to or in the US was the fault of Russians, now I guess it's gonna be Iranians.
morkalork 2 days ago||
No worries. As long as rigorous due diligence was followed when vetting him as a candidate, there will surely be nothing embarrassing or harmful found in his personal emails.
chao- 2 days ago||
From the administration that brought us "We are currently clean on OPSEC", I can't claim surprise. Disappointment, but not surprise.

Nor, however, can I take the statements of malicious actors at face value. They hacked a personal email address, but that does not mean "the FBI’s security was nothing more than a joke".

calvinmorrison 2 days ago|
These government officials are idiots. Jeffery Epstein, idiot. Why do even rich and powerful use easily hackable stuff?

Lest us not forget bObama@yahoo.com or the IT guy who worked for the Clinton foundation who posted about bleachbit on recdit

tomjakubowski 2 days ago|||
Obama's old personal email was at defunct ISP ameritech.net, not Yahoo. I only remember because that's the ISP I grew up with.

Trump using yourefired as his Twitter password well into his 2016 campaign was amazing, too.

lostlogin 2 days ago|||
I'm surprised he put the 'e' on 'you're'.
dhosek 2 days ago||||
Ameritech.net was backed by yahoo’s mail and IIRC, joefish@ameritech.net and joefish@yahoo.com would be the same mailbox.
calvinmorrison 2 days ago|||
Idiots
gzread 2 days ago|||
Because they are experts in acquiring riches and power, not experts in computer security.
mjmsmith 2 days ago|
"Iran, if you're listening..."
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