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Having damning material to blackmail a President would be a problem, even if the material comes from activity prior to time as a President. We do not want that.

The only problem with the damning material prior or not, is that it happened in the first place.

If a future president has something so damning they could use it for blackmail, we should all know and be thankful it was bought to public light.

Having damning material to blackmail a President would be a problem, even if the material comes from activity prior to time as a President. We do not want that.

Yes, I do not want a president. The fact that they can all be blackmailed is just one reason among countless.

The government buys IT services from the same companies that everyone else does: Google, Microsoft and Amazon. They all offer special government offerings with stricter security.

I guarantee Trump is getting hacked because he and his team refuse to listen to IT and won't let them turn on basic security features because they're a slight inconvenience.

I'm of the opinion that the alleged billionaire with his own cryptocurrency and publicly traded tech company should be able to afford a security guy.

Why not just hire cyber ninjas?

US government should offer secure IT services to campaigns

They already do. Part of the problem is that the candidates themselves don't want to comply, for fear of someone in the secret service leaking.

This goes back to Clinton sneaking around behind the back of his detail to get head and Cheney maintaining a secret vault of physical files to skirt rules on disclosure.

Having damning material to blackmail a President would be a problem

J. Edger Hoover would consider it extremely useful, particularly if he needed to tighten the leash.

Depending on who you believe, your bosses having Compromat on you is practically a prerequisite for climbing the ladder.

You can have the best cybersecurity team in the world and they still wouldn't be able to do anything about a dementia patient this stupid. His passwords are dumb shit like "MAGA2020" maybe with an exclamation mark.

This is not about the need for government support, this case is solely a case of gross incompetence in IT.

If one gets hacked, one makes dead sure that the hole where the attacker entered and all the holes the attacker created afterwards are thoroughly taken care of.

Might be able to do that by extending the responsibilities of the secret service for such things. Or having the NSA on top of that shit.

They actually offered leaks to US newspapers and they all refused to take it. They didn’t want to be attacked by Trump I guess.

Seems like a tactical error since in 2016 Russia just put up a website and dumped it there as well as giving it to Wikileaks.

His password is probably still MAGA2020

For like. Everything.

No way. Giuliani is head of Cyber.

It's disturbing how many gifs of him doing this at different times and places there are...

Might as well be

Man really did hack Trump’s Twitter account by guessing password, ‘maga2020!,’ Dutch prosecutors say

Nah, my understanding from past reading is that Iranian intelligence has generally sought to undermine Trump's campaign.

Remember that Trump knocked off the second-in-command guy in Iran a few years back and is generally more supportive of Israel, which is in active conflict with Hezbollah and Hamas, who are Iranian proxies.

Some stuff in the news about it recently, remember:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/iranian-hackers-stolen-trump-campaign-material-biden-campaign/story?id=113826314

Iranian hackers sent 'stolen' Trump campaign material to individuals associated with Biden campaign: FBI

The FBI said there is "no indication" those individuals replied.

Russian intelligence, on the other hand, has been supportive of Trump's campaign.

I think that the real takeaway here is that we seriously need to improve the state of information security on political campaigns. We've had repeated compromises so far. There are a number of countries out there with an interest either in who becomes the next leader of the US or in swiping private material on whichever that might be useful for blackmail purposes down the line. China, for example, might not try to swing the election, but I am confident that Chinese intelligence would be interested in having compromising information on an American president.

Definitely not. Remember the nuclear deal that Obama got with Iran? The one that lifted sanctions in return for allowing UN inspectors in to ensure compliance? President Convict unilaterally torpedoed it and reinstated sanctions. Iran would love to resume the deal, which may or may not happen with Harris, but absolutely would not happen if President Convict gets into the White House again.