They were so busy hunting for the rapists they completely forgot about passwords......or we've got some decent folks weaponizing "incompetence"

Apparently the word “don’t” can also be found redacted.

Because they did a regex for Don(.)T and didn’t bother to check

Seriously, wouldn't this be kind of huge news if we suddenly had access to the evidence they tried to hide? Too bad this is a news article and someone probably changed the password by now.

From what I remember, the guy said that not much was left and most of the emails were deleted

There's no news on it and I have to assume it's because if that is the full unredacted email there's probably a ton of CSAM. If so it's technically illegal to own and anyone who is downloading it might be opening themselves up to arrest or legal challenges, even if they're a journalist.

I would presume IF this is a full release of the Epstein GMail account, and IF it's not a honeypot op of some kind from CIA/IDF/SVR/whoever, and IF it's legit... then this is big. Nearly all American news orgs have been gutted though, and I doubt any billionaire that owns the news orgs would be ok with having their wealthy cohort exposed.

Whoever might be investigating this would almost certainly keep quiet until all of their ducks are in a row because the second they publish, they're going to be arrested for CSAM. Unless they're in a country with no extradition treaty with the US. And even then they'll be subject to extraordinary rendition cause Trump don't care about US law, why would the lack of an extradition treaty stop him?

All I can see is *******

they just assumed it was one of hunter biden's kids and waved it through

It's insane that you're one of the only comments actually responding to the post itself. I'm starting to think Lemmy is being taken over by bots even worse than Reddit.

Yeah, much of "hacking" is lamer than the movies show.

If you can read, you’re now a hacker. Which means a good percentage of Trump voters can’t hack.

Bro, I just hacked MYSELF

Somewhat, yeah. A lot of hacking is like that along with social engineering

Basically 80% of the "hacks" in the world find ez password get on lan create admin

I like that this is the important part, the thing that people are annoyed with. Pff, loser, did you even use the terminal? Fake ass bitch.

Multiple major dictionaries seem to define computer hacking as: "to gain unauthorized access to a computer network, system, etc." or something similar. So yeah, it seems that using a password you found somewhere to access an account that isn't yours would indeed be considered "hacking."

That's always been hacking lol.

It's hacking as soon as it's uncomfortable for someone with power.

Always has been.

Edit: wow, downvotes. Care to explain?

Legally speaking unfortunately.

Yes?

That's basically how most "hacking" works through social engineering and phishing.

Yes. It's also a series of felonies. Having a persons username and password does not give one permission to access the account anymore than having possession of someone's house key allows one to legally enter the home.

*******

Huh?

If they'd stop talking about Linux or posting furry porn for a minute they would.

/s