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Password: 0sbP@ss

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emptywheel
If we're going to make fun of John Podesta for keeping passwords in his email account, we should also note CIA's own hackers had some passwords lying around their server.

Open Thread: Don't Forget Poland!

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Rayne
In which we take a look at some modern Polish baroque gothic art and some non-arts stuff. This is an open thread.
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The Friday Afternoon Massacre: Who Is Overseeing the Trump Investigation?

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emptywheel
Did Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente, who is currently overseeing the investigation into Trump's aides, just resign to himself?

Or Maybe America Post-9/11 Inspires More Disillusionment?

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emptywheel
Maybe the problem is not -- as Michael Hayden would like to believe -- that Millennials aren't as loyal as his generation. Maybe the problem is, instead, that America's actions don't inspire the same loyalty anymore?

No More Secrets: Vault 7

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emptywheel
When Wikileaks released its Vault 7 leak the other day, it didn't release the code. That may mean it is sitting on two sets of US Intelligence Community hacking tools.
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CIA Did Not Have Multi-Factor Authentication Controls for All Users as Recently as August 2016

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emptywheel
CIA is whining that Wikileaks published the hacking tools it didn't secure. It has not, however, apologized for leaving those tools insecure.
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International Women's Day 2017: #DayWithoutAWoman

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Rayne
It's been 105 years since the first International Women's Day. Women's socio-economic power has not reached parity in 2-3 lifetimes since 1911.

Wikileaks Dumps CIA's Hacking Tools

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emptywheel
Wikileaks just dumped the first of what it claims will be a series, exposing the CIA's hacking tools.
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The Feedback Loop in Christopher Steele's Dossier

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emptywheel
The newly revealed discussions between the FBI and Christoper Steele raise new questions about what kind of feedback loop his later reporting responded to.
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How Trump's Tantrum May Lead Trump Transition Official Devin Nunes to Delegitimize the Investigation

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emptywheel
In the day and a half since Trump went on an epic Twitter rant, he has recruited Trump transition official Devin Nunes to delegitimize any surveillance of Trump campaign officials who might have been collaborating with Russians.
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The Conspiratorial Game of Telephone in Bannon's Rag that Made Left, Right, and POTUS Go Crazy

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emptywheel
After Trump went on a tirade about Jeff Sessions recusing from the investigation into his close associates, Donald Trump then got misinformed on Breitbart, causing a tizzy on both sides of the aisle.
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Jeff Sessions' Narrow Recusal

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emptywheel
Jeff Sessions only recused himself from investigations about the election. That leaves a number of other areas of concern that he should recuse on.

Who Cooked Adam Smith's Dinner?

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Ed Walker
Smith's Mom cooked his dinner. Funny he didn't mention her work in his big book of life. Or
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Five Data Points on the Sessions News

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emptywheel
Jeff Sessions is almost certainly not going to be prosecuted for perjury. But that doesn't mean the exposure of his non-disclosure of Russian ties isn't important.
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The Border Invasion Trump Didn't Mention

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emptywheel
In half of Obama's State of the Union addresses, President Obama emphasized the importance of cybersecurity. That's one border invasion Trump was silent on last night.

Democrats Need to Respond to Trump's Narrative about Solving American Disinvestment

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emptywheel
I didn't like it and I realize that it was packed full of hatred and lies. But I'm among those who believes that President Trump's speech last night (I've put the transcript below) was effective. I say that for several reasons. First,…
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If Amazon Web Services Goes Down, Do the Cloud Services AWS Provides the Intelligence Community Too?

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emptywheel
Amazon Web Services is experiencing a bad outage in its NoVa located servers today. If that outage extends to the cloud services it provides the CIA, it might affect some very interesting data.

Devin Nunes Doesn't Think Donald Trump Should be Subject To the Kind of "Witch Hunt" He Conducted with Edward Snowden

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emptywheel
Devin Nunes suggests he can't do a "witch hunt" into the Trump Administration. Which is funny, because he's applying a dramatically different standard on allegations of Edward Snowden ties with Russia than he is with Trump Administration ties with Russia.

White House Confident No Fire to Russian Smoke because Investigation Has Lasted Six Months

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emptywheel
The White House claims to be confident the Russian scandal will amount to nothing because it hasn't yet after six months of investigation.
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Reuters Confirms Krebs' Supposition on Russian Treason Charges

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emptywheel
Reuters confirms what Brian Krebs had already supposed: the treason charges against some FSB officers and a Kaspersky employee stem (in part) from an old grudge from the spam marketing days.
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