GMail, like Apple, has specific enhanced security programs available for Politically Exposed Persons:

https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/

The fact the Director of the FBI did not avail himself of this just reiterates how incompetent he is, in addition to being corrupt as heck.

Read the article he wasn't the director of the FBI: "The stolen emails appear to date from around 2011 to 2022"

He's had over a year to enable it.

Was that landing page written by Google India team !

Not sure what difference the nationality of the copywriters makes…

It's possible it was breached in 2022 and they've held on to it until now.

It would be poetic justice to get the unredacted Epstein files via Iran...

Gone are the days of the strong silent type running the roles of high power in the government. He is a real embarrassment and I feel sorry for his mother.

> Gone are the days of the strong silent type running the roles of high power in the government

What, like J.Edgar?

> I feel sorry for his mother.

In all likelihood his upbringing is what made him this way.

You think so? Peers, in my experience, have an even greater impact, especially between the ages of 10 and 25.

Gone only because current leadership kicked them all to the curb and told them to get out of Washington. Only loyal talking heads are wanted there now.

The strong silent types were all fired for being "woke". We collectively decided that incompetence should be the top qualification for all positions of power, and the results are obvious.

I feel like sending phishing emails for penis enlargement pills would take down half the current administration.

I know someone who will be interested in bigger hands--big beautiful hands.

I must say, i'd prefer if my hands remained the same size they are now. I dont want to lose my dexterity. Slightly offtopic

worth a try

Link if you want to look: https://bsky.app/profile/ddosecrets.org/post/3mi2iokglyn2w

Interesting comment: "if Iran ends up responsible for regime change in the US, i will be overjoyed as i die from irony"

Anybody dug through it yet?

Is it legal to download something like this?

Legal or illegal doesn't really matter. If the regime wants to come for you they will.

Legality matters now least of all to either side.

You can't prove you didn't (and the fuzz will produce evidence you did).

I dont know. I think downloading it with Tor would make it almost impossible to find out you downloaded this stuff anyway.

I'm sure it will be embarrassing for him personally, but not a breach of U.S. government systems.

Kudos to CNN for publishing a balanced take on it.

These are a group that used outside signal chats to discuss war plans. What odds do you have that he didn't use a personal email to avoid future accountability?

That’s depressingly common with politicians the world over because Signal supports disappearing messages.

So I wouldn’t expect someone who uses Signal to automatically be the kind of person to use personal email for work.

You're assuming that he didn't use personal email for his FBI "work".

The leak is from 2011-2022. He wasn't in the government then!!!!

per Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai

> In some cases, Patel appears to have sent emails from his former Justice Department email address in 2014 to his Gmail account. TechCrunch found that the emails sent from Patel’s DOJ account also appeared to be authentic.

Are you kidding? He had extremely sensitive roles as Devin Nunes' House committee aide from 2017–2019 in the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, National Security Council aide and deputy director of national intelligence (2019–2020), and then Chief of staff to the secretary of defense (2020–2021).

I wonder how much of 2021. Two FBI agents reported that he was the bag man for payments to alter Jan 6 cases.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/us/politics/house-weaponi...

Maybe something fun about his book. https://www.amazon.com/Plot-Against-King-Kash-Patel/dp/19555...

What a weird looking book. The cover shows Trump as the king, lol Anyways, if i were a parent, i'd certainly try to do everything to prevent my kids (under 10) from getting into politics. Let them live as normal kids should.

The US media has a clear understanding that their reporting on the war needs to be filtered and biased. This is not some coming-to-their-senses against sensationalism, but a nothingburger they know they can't sensationalize without great risk.

As is the case in any administration; let alone with an admin as vindictive as Trump's.

This "balanced take" warrants kudos?

We're not even pretending to lift the bar off the ground when it comes to mainstream media, are we?

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.

>“This isn’t an FBI compromise — it’s someone’s personal junk drawer,” he said.

Eh, with how many people in the current administration seem to use out of band channels to communicate very important things who knows what else they located.

This isn’t a written by a human — it's a AI-accelerated piece.

As if this is the first time this has ever happened.

How many former officials used personal accounts about government business?

How many corporate executives communicate business via personal accounts to avoid legal discovery?

How many individuals communicate outside their main email accounts to avoid scrutiny or attribution?

Point is, nobody should feel superior or shocked that such things like this happen. I understand some enjoy the privacy of their perceived enemies being exposed, but IMHO, nobody should be happy about invasion of anyone's privacy.

Most incompetent administration in the modern era.

I dont know why your comment got grayed out but it made me smile.

[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47543167

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.

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

> 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

> Why would anyone bother to attack us now?

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

How am I only finding out about this now... my sides

I’m surprised no group has hacked the Epstein files, given the extreme interest.

I mean, yes? You can give whatever weight you want to the whole thing, but the core issue with Hillary Clinton and the emails was that she was storing material on a private server rather than in official infrastructure.

If Patel didn't do such thing here, the breach should only expose personal stuff, if he did, then it's much more of a problem, but either way this is a really clear example of why concern was raised back at the time.

Is that the latest spin to defend the pedophile class?

I see you updated your comment, but in a way that doesn't make any sense. Of course the pedophiles in the files will say it's a hoax.

The DOJ acknowledges that over 100,000 files are still withheld.

He absolutely uses his personal email for all sorts of sensitive stuff. I guarantee it. It seems to be a constant with this administration, just a slow decline into incompetence.

>just a slow decline into incompetence.

Give them some credit, it’s been quite rapid.

when were they anything other than incompetent?

For those who decried Hillary's E-Mail server but fail to apply the same standards to the current administration, it was never a real issue to begin with. Just performative nonsense.

And it's not a coincidence that they're also the ones who shout about "meritocracy" the loudest.