When the hacker expressed disgust at the child abuse images on the server and threatened to report them to the FBI, agents had to get into a video chat with the hacker to convince him they WERE the FBI.
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When the hacker expressed disgust at the child abuse images on the server and threatened to report them to the FBI, agents had to get into a video chat with the hacker to convince him they WERE the FBI.
We continue to live in the stupidest possible timeline.
@evacide
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When the hacker expressed disgust at the child abuse images on the server and threatened to report them to the FBI, agents had to get into a video chat with the hacker to convince him they WERE the FBI.
We continue to live in the stupidest possible timeline.
I am reminded of a story of a British burglar during WW2 who realized the house he was robbing was occupied by a German spy. He promptly reported the spy, and thereby himself, to the police. “I may be a burglar” here told them, “but I am a patriotic British burglar”. @evacide
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When the hacker expressed disgust at the child abuse images on the server and threatened to report them to the FBI, agents had to get into a video chat with the hacker to convince him they WERE the FBI.
We continue to live in the stupidest possible timeline.
@evacide
Some people walk through the world carrying the unbearable weight of reality, yet they can never reveal it. -
@evacide does the hacker have the filea unblackened
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When the hacker expressed disgust at the child abuse images on the server and threatened to report them to the FBI, agents had to get into a video chat with the hacker to convince him they WERE the FBI.
We continue to live in the stupidest possible timeline.
@evacide "The hack occurred after a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI’s New York Field Office was inadvertently left vulnerable by Special Agent Aaron Spivack, who was trying to navigate the bureau’s complex procedures for handling digital evidence, according to the source and the documents."
Okay. I'm not sure what this means, exactly, but it reads like someone is trying to be incredibly charitable to this agent, the bureau, or both. It comes across as, well, bullshit.
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When the hacker expressed disgust at the child abuse images on the server and threatened to report them to the FBI, agents had to get into a video chat with the hacker to convince him they WERE the FBI.
We continue to live in the stupidest possible timeline.
@evacide why would FBI agents care if a hacker believes they are FBI agents, I would think they'd want the opposite
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@evacide "The hack occurred after a server at the Child Exploitation Forensic Lab in the FBI’s New York Field Office was inadvertently left vulnerable by Special Agent Aaron Spivack, who was trying to navigate the bureau’s complex procedures for handling digital evidence, according to the source and the documents."
Okay. I'm not sure what this means, exactly, but it reads like someone is trying to be incredibly charitable to this agent, the bureau, or both. It comes across as, well, bullshit.
How does someone who should have some level of end user access leave an entire server vulnerable?
Only someone with a high level admin kind of access rights could, or at least should be able to do that.
And anyone with that level of access sure as hell should know better.Someone screwed up royally.
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When the hacker expressed disgust at the child abuse images on the server and threatened to report them to the FBI, agents had to get into a video chat with the hacker to convince him they WERE the FBI.
We continue to live in the stupidest possible timeline.
When a random hacker has more integrity than the president...
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I am reminded of a story of a British burglar during WW2 who realized the house he was robbing was occupied by a German spy. He promptly reported the spy, and thereby himself, to the police. “I may be a burglar” here told them, “but I am a patriotic British burglar”. @evacide
@BenAveling And the spy probably was turned by MI5 anyway. German espionage in WWII was famously unsuccessful in the UK.
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@BenAveling And the spy probably was turned by MI5 anyway. German espionage in WWII was famously unsuccessful in the UK.
@masek yup. 50/50 on being turned or executed.
Took a while, but they managed to completely clear the uk of German spies. Pity about the Russian spies that replaced them.
