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Wikileaks Releases Nearly 20,000 Hacked DNC Emails

poweRob said:
You'd think wrong. I think it's a good thing. Except for the revealing of personal info like social security numbers and the like.
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Yeah, that's crossing the line for me as well.
 
Nilly said:
Most of the emails are between gmail and DNC.org domains. Other than using specifically encrypted mail (and not putting SSN's in emails) the main thing that the DNC can be held accountable to here is their email security. However, I wouldn't be surprised if they use the same protocols as most private companies and govt organizations.

Really, the DNC are a victim in this whole affair, and we should take this as a warning across our govt (and private companies) that IT security isn't a joke. It's the absolute easiest way that people can attack us, and instead of spending x billion on F-35's there are a lot of things closer to home that we should be looking to remedy.

Of course, as these emails begin to get parsed, we'll see if anything nefarious comes up, at which point the DNC should be held accountable. Until then, again, they're the victim in a crime.
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This would be the Cyber Watergate
 
apdst said:
I've donated to the RNC and have never been asked for my SSN.
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There are probably people donating to the DNC that don't even have a social security number. :lamo
 
poweRob said:
You see... I'm consistent. I like crooks exposed where ever they are. I know you probably wouldn't want to see the crooks that definitely exist in your party but I like a clean house. Not the the DNC is my house by any means but it's a lot closer than the RNC is.
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Right!...lol
 
poweRob said:
You see... I'm consistent. I like crooks exposed where ever they are. I know you probably wouldn't want to see the crooks that definitely exist in your party but I like a clean house. Not the the DNC is my house by any means but it's a lot closer than the RNC is.
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1000 times this. Party loyalty has lead to the tolerance of corruption.
 
apdst said:
Right!...lol
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I'm sorry you seem so unaccustomed to talking to an actual person with principles.

Now... You can address the topic but you instead wish to make it about me. Care to address the topic now?
 
Steve Hayes said on Fox that some of what he saw in the leaked emails looked like the heavy hand of Wasserman Schultz steering the primary activities and schedule in favor of Hillary.
Yes, she'd been accused already but this would be, ya know, like, evidence.

hmmmm ... Has anyone ever retracted their endorsement before?
 
apdst said:
The democrats prove that.
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Both parties have been corrupt for decades, the fact the right looks ever so slightly less so right now does not change that. They have certainly been worse at times.
 
shagg said:
Both parties have been corrupt for decades, the fact the right looks ever so slightly less so right now does not change that. They have certainly been worse at times.
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Right! The Left circled the wagons around clinto quicker than you can flick flies off of ****.
 
bubbabgone said:
Steve Hayes said on Fox that some of what he saw in the leaked emails looked like the heavy hand of Wasserman Schultz steering the primary activities and schedule in favor of Hillary.
Yes, she'd been accused already but this would be, ya know, like, evidence.

hmmmm ... Has anyone ever retracted their endorsement before?
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Regarding the primary activities and scheduling...perhaps the DNC had to co-ordinate schedules with Hillary's campaign because she was the only candidate that was actively fund raising for the party.
 
apdst said:
Right! The Left circled the wagons around Clinton quicker than you can flick flies off of ****.
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It didn't take the Right very long to circle the wagons around Trump, either. Although, I suspect a lot of them were bullied into it by other party loyalists.
 
Moot said:
Regarding the primary activities and scheduling...perhaps the DNC had to co-ordinate schedules with Hillary's campaign because she was the only candidate that was actively fund raising for the party.
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Sanders wasn't fund raising?
 
Moot said:
It didn't take the Right very long to circle the wagons around Trump, either. Although, I suspect a lot of them were bullied into it by other party loyalists.
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I'm sorry, was Trump under a criminal investigation by the FBI?
 
Nilly said:
1. This has nothing to do with Hillary's private server
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Then why did you bring it up?

2. This really calls into question the integrity of wikileaks, not that this is the first time they have published the names of innocents with wild abandon. At the end of the day, they are a foreign organization.
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Seems to me like it's keeping in line with wikileaks normal procedures. Should they have refrained simply because it was Democrats?

3. This massively highlights just how vulnerable we are as a country to attacks of a cyber nature. We are probably the country with the most in the world to lose from bad IT security practices, yet our govt insists on backdoors and ways in which they can spy on American citizens to 'keep us safe'.
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This is your best point. Not only does their back doors make us less safe but the government has no authority to tell someone how they have to make whatever product as long as it's not a direct threat to someone's safety (i.e. it's a poorly constructed product).
 
Fishking said:
Then why did you bring it up?
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Pre-empting the inevitability of people bringing Hillary up.

Fishking said:
Seems to me like it's keeping in line with wikileaks normal procedures. Should they have refrained simply because it was Democrats?
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They should refrain from publishing sensitive information about average joe, no matter where the info is hacked from. DNC, RNC, Target, wherever.

Fishking said:
This is your best point. Not only does their back doors make us less safe but the government has no authority to tell someone how they have to make whatever product as long as it's not a direct threat to someone's safety (i.e. it's a poorly constructed product).
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Agree, but I also feel that it's the point that will (unfortunately) interest the fewest people here. The general public (including the majority of this website) don't really seem to get how important cyber security is.
 
Chillfolks said:
The SSN is way too far. But the names and addresses seems like the same stuff groups do to gun owners and receive praise for.

This election cycle it seems the DNC has been extra sneaky in screwing over its supporters chasing the money.
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Huh. Really, you think they've been sneaky about it?
 
Nilly said:
Pre-empting the inevitability of people bringing Hillary up.
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Good call.

They should refrain from publishing sensitive information about average joe, no matter where the info is hacked from. DNC, RNC, Target, wherever.
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Agreed. Stick with taking down the corrupt organizations.

Agree, but I also feel that it's the point that will (unfortunately) interest the fewest people here. The general public (including the majority of this website) don't really seem to get how important cyber security is.
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And how little regard for the 4th Amendment the government has. It is, however, important that they did go after the corruption of the DNC.

Wikileaks Proves Primary Was Rigged: DNC Undermined Democracy | Observer
 
Moot said:
For his campaign, yes...but not for the party or down ballot candidates....whereas Hillary has.


Clinton, Sanders differ on down-ballot Democrats | MSNBC

Sanders: 'We'll See' If I Will Fundraise For Down-Ballot Democrats (VIDEO)
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Thats a Debbie Wasserman/Schultz DNC induced bald faced lie.


The DNC and Debbie were busy stabbing Bernie in the back nonstop and at the same time crying and whining about how the Sanders campaign wasn't raising money FOR he ****ing DNC.

Let's hope this down-ballot Sanders fundraising pulls a MASSIVE upset.

 
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