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Hackers Are Threatening to Release Emails Stolen from Trump’s Aides, Roger Stone, and Stormy Daniels (gizmodo.com)

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[–] 100@fedia.io 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 5 points 3 days 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.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 1 points 3 days ago

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