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Re:U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote by pdabbadabba on Saturday December 24, 2016 @11:23PM (#13252911)
I'd say each of your three points are seriously exaggerated, but that's really neither here nor there. Why can't we be worried by the content of the emails and the fact that a foreign government hacked them and leaked them strategically to influence our election?

It strikes me as profoundly foolish to not react here just because you happen to be happy that this particular set of information was released. (As well as, by the way, reams of email with no value to the public whatsoever.)

And of course nobody is suggesting we fight a nuclear war. There's clearly plenty of space between GP's suggestion that we do more than tell them to 'cut it out' and nuclear warfare.

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Re:U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote by williamle8300 on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:41AM (#13253123)
It's called whistleblowing. By definition, you have to step outside of protocol... or hack. Choose whatever verbiage that suits you.

I don't know what country you're from, but our laws in America are supposed to protect whistleblowers––not prosecute them.

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Re:U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote by rhcom2 on Sunday December 25, 2016 @01:30AM (#13253235)
A foreign government breaking into a computer system and releasing documents wholesale is not whistleblowing.
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Re:U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote by exstudent2 on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:10AM (#13253035)
Whoever released the emails did the American public a huge service. They pulled back the curtain and we got to see how the sausage is made. It doesn't matter who they are or why they did it. The end result was important whistle blowing. We should hope that information like this is leaked out as it helps balance the power between the public and corrupt politicians/media in a way nothing else can.
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Re:U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote by simonw on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:38AM (#13253118)
How do you feel about the fact that they appear to have hacked the RNC too but deliberately chose not to release those emails, in order to favor one candidate over the other. Still think that's a huge public service?

Not to mention that the emails they kept might be used for blackmail in the future.

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Re:U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote by makomk on Sunday December 25, 2016 @04:57AM (#13253589)
If I remember correctly, that was walked back to a claim that they'd hacked "RNC actors" but not the RNC themselves - and we already knew that because e-mails from Republicans were released fairly early on. This is a problem with a lot of the scary claims going around in general; they simply don't actually seem to be true.
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Re:U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote by exstudent2 on Sunday December 25, 2016 @09:43AM (#13254231)
Yes they did 1/2 have of the work they could but I'm not complaining about getting more information. Someone else should leak the RNC. Or possibly it didn't contain as many bombshells? Either way, I'm happy to get more information than I had before.
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Re:U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote by williamle8300 on Sunday December 25, 2016 @12:43AM (#13253126)
Maybe because RNC emails are mundane and don't have scandalous material?
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Re:U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote by cariaso on Sunday December 25, 2016 @01:00AM (#13253158)
The majority of the Podesta leaks were extremely mundane. This suggests the RNC leaks were held to a different standard.
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Re:U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote by mythrwy on Sunday December 25, 2016 @02:18AM (#13253342)
The majority, yes. However some were "interesting".
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Re:U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote by 3131s on Sunday December 25, 2016 @02:31AM (#13253364)
Of course the majority were mundane. The majority of Chapo Guzman's private communications would be mundane too. The contents of the DNC emails suggest nothing about the contents of the RNC emails, though I have no doubt that republicans are equally crooked.
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Re:U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote by chillwaves on Sunday December 25, 2016 @04:21AM (#13253532)
And what does the one-sidedness of the attacks and releases suggest?
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Re:U.S. Election Agency Breached by Hackers After November Vote by 3131s on Sunday December 25, 2016 @06:08AM (#13253724)
The one-sidedness of the attacks? From whom? If you're referring to recent CIA claims that the RNC was hacked as well, then my answer is that I don't trust the CIA. It may have happened, but you have no real proof about Russian involvement at all. Unlike other posters in this thread and Clinton herself, I am not keen on starting a physical war with Russia over conjecture about a virtual attack.
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