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[–] [email protected] 20 points 9 hours ago

Weak sauce.

I can understand cheering for this to be released as we can imagine that these fascists would suffer some sort of consequence or comeuppance.

But let's not kid ourselves, they control the media and they're immune to the sort of legal consequences that could come from any sort of exposé. He's already a fascist doing fascist things!

I just wished that we realized that if we want them to suffer the consequences of being fascists, we have to do it ourselves and not by staying behind a screen.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 12 hours ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 hours ago

If they had anything worth a damn they'd have already released them. The threats to do so are a joke.

It would already be somewhere like DDOSecrets.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, what exactly would an email dump accomplish? Hard to embarrass these guys in any way that matters. They just keep plugging on, doing crimes and ruining lives, while sending their goon squads to rough up any news reporter who asks a difficult question at a press briefing.

The fact that this is "Iran" implicated in the data dump only gives the bigger media outlets one more excuse to ignore the release and freeze out anyone involved in its distribution.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (1 children)

It's one step. It's incremental. He does have a cult of personality, which complicates things.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Tell it to Julian Assange and Edward Snowden.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago

Assange is aware, he helped Trump after all.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Okay, I don't know if they'll get my message.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Wouldn't matter if they did. His followers wouldn't care, if they ever find out.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

While Iran isn’t considered one of the most sophisticated cyber actors in the world (Israel, for instance, is considered to be much more formidable), the group that allegedly hacked the Trump campaign is said to employ fairly tricky tactics.

It's the Trump administration. You could probably just send them an email saying, "We believe you're the victim of a cyber attack. Forward your emails to this address so we can scan them and remove the malware."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

any group is vulnerable to a hack if security isnt babysitting those that fall for the simplest phishing attempts

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 hours ago

any group is vulnerable to a hack

You can stop there and be pretty accurate. The best we have is air-gapping private systems and trying really hard to secure private networks device to endpoint. As long as there are zero day exploits and well funded nation-states, there will always be back-doors in silicon.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 hours ago

Confidence games are the oldest trick in the book. Layering technology on top of them doesn't make it "hacking."

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 hours ago

Are you guys here? Do it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

There is basically nothing that could be contained within such emails that would change almost anyone's mind about Trump that hasn't already come to some kind of conclusion about him. The only thing is might do it reveal some kind of technical non-moral weak spot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 hours ago

Dumpy looks high AF in that image.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 hours ago

So? It's not like it would change anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Jesus does trump just shoot blood out of his eyes now? For fucks sake man, invest in some visine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Can any of it be used to start a court case somewhere he doesn't own? That's the only thing that matters now. Indict him or shut up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

This should be fun.