[HN Gopher] DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal emai...
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DOJ confirms FBI Director Kash Patel's personal email was hacked
Author : sebastian_z
Score : 57 points
Date : 2026-03-27 21:41 UTC (1 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (arstechnica.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (arstechnica.com)
| trhway wrote:
| Hegseth - Signal app
|
| Noem - habeas corpus definition she gave at the Congress hearing
|
| Kennedy Jr - vaccines and the rest of his view on medicine
|
| Now Patel's unhackable FBI.
|
| I think the world has changed, and i really need to update my
| expectations of what is new normal. It is like in tech when
| paradigm shift happens, and you're either go with the new
| paradigm or get irrelevant.
| ToucanLoucan wrote:
| "Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate
| talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots
| and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still
| the best guarantee of their loyalty." ~Hannah Arendt
| trhway wrote:
| i'm from USSR, so pretty familiar with it. The issue here is
| whether it is a fluke, or the world is really going into new
| phase where totalitarianism and authoritarianism are going to
| become dominating state of affairs.
|
| For example many attribute rise of totalitarianism back then
| in 20th century to the power of broadcasting radio and
| "formation of mass society". We have a similarly
| transformative factor now - social media. And with the new
| tech power - propaganda (sounds dated, today it is more like
| mind control) through social media and total surveillance
| plus AI "minority report" - we can get a hyper-
| totalitarianism orders of magnitude more totalitarian than
| those of the 20th century. And may be we're witnessing the
| birth of such a new world order.
| add-sub-mul-div wrote:
| I don't think people appreciate enough how much it mattered
| that Trump was a celebrity buffoon/reality show personality for
| decades before "politics". Stupid people eat that up. Other
| Trumpy candidates have not been able to reproduce his success.
| Let's not assume this is the new normal.
| conductr wrote:
| If Idiocracy was made today, I wonder how far in the future
| they'd place it. In 2006, they thought 500 years which seems
| optimistic now.
| chao- wrote:
| From the administration that brought us "We are currently clean
| on OPSEC", I can't claim surprise. Disappointment, but not
| surprise.
|
| Nor, however, can I take the statements of malicious actors at
| face value. They hacked a personal email address, but that does
| not mean "the FBI's security was nothing more than a joke".
| unparagoned wrote:
| It's all fine since he didn't use it for official business right,
| right...
| justonceokay wrote:
| Or more likely unofficial business
| pnw wrote:
| Based on the links in the articles, it's personal photographs
| and a resume from an old Gmail account. The resume dates from
| 2017.
| noosphr wrote:
| Imagine a world where gpg encryption was the norm instead of
| something that only works reliably in Emacs.
| jonathanstrange wrote:
| This wouldn't have happened if Kash Patel used Emacs, that's
| right.
| k310 wrote:
| A great many experts in the military, medicine, disaster relief,
| and cybersecurity { the list goes on } were fired.
|
| It's almost as if the nation were weakened on purpose.
|
| Don't get mad, get Vlad. Or just prepare for the long-desired
| Rapture.[0] and which politicians seem to be working very hard to
| being about (the Apocalypse part, anyway)
|
| [0] https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/29/us/iran-israel-
| evangelicals-p...
|
| > Prophecy, not politics, may also shape America's clash with
| Iran
|
| So, is prophecy OK in a pitch deck? Asking for a friend.
| sv123 wrote:
| Clowns, all the way down.
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