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pcernie

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High school students hack CIA director's AOL account

You've Got Fail: high school students hack CIA director's AOL account | Technology | The Guardian
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Mon Oct 19, 2015 10:39 pm

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Re: High school students hack CIA director's AOL account

1) AOL is still a thing?!?
2) The Director of the CIA uses it for work?!?

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Mon Oct 19, 2015 10:48 pm

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	timark_uk wrote: 1) AOL is still a thing?!? 2) The Director of the CIA uses it for work?!?

My thoughts exactly!

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Tue Oct 20, 2015 7:06 am

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Re: High school students hack CIA director's AOL account

The Director of the CIA isn't actually a spy (given they are usually quite high profile people it would be kind of tricky). He'd probably use a residential internet provider at his home the same way anybody else would. if he wasn't using proper security protocols with the information he was handling then that's bad, but I actually kind of doubt he'd be routinely handling a lot of operational stuff. That's way below his pay grade.

Tom Clancy may have the Director of the CIA dodging bullets in Nicaragua or whatever, but the fact is he probably spends 99% of his time in meetings talking about policy.

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Re: High school students hack CIA director's AOL account

Someone's going to prison for a few decades.

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