Hillary Gets Guccifered, If a taxi driver from Romania knew about Hillary’s server, so did China

[NWCorona]

"Maybe it should be a verb: To be Guccifered. Though maybe, in Hillary Clinton’s case, it would be better phrased as a crime. As in: “They got her on a Guccifer.”

Guccifer is the nom de Internet of the Romanian hacker Marcel Lehel Lazar. Few people realize it, but the Eastern European anti-hero is why the world knows that Hillary Clinton maintained a private email server while secretary of state. This week he may have made Mrs. Clinton’s road to the White House a lot rougher.

It’s a case study in why governments have rules about online security. Guccifer’s specialty was hacking top officials and their relatives—with an eye toward mayhem and humiliation. He hacked the account of Dorothy Bush Koch and circulated photos of her father, former President George H.W. Bush, in the hospital. He hacked years of Colin Powell’s correspondence, including personal financial information. He went after FBI and Secret Service agents, senators and the wealthy....


The bigger point is that an unemployed taxi driver in Romania, using nothing more than a desktop computer, was able to infiltrate Mr. Blumenthal’s account and discover that a woman privy to America’s closest-held secrets was using a home-brew server.

The Chinese are bright—even brighter than Romanian taxi drivers. They employ hackers whose only job is to infiltrate the U.S. government. Those hackers have supercomputers at their service. They have lists upon lists of relatives and friends and aides of powerful people. When they break into accounts, they don’t publicize it.

And yet we are to believe that the Chinese never found their way to clintonemail.com? That they couldn’t even keep up with a freelance hacker? “For me, it was easy . . . easy for me, easy for everybody,” Guccifer told Fox News this week. How easy was it also for those foreign hackers to get to the webmail or home-brew accounts of Clinton aides like Huma Abedin, who took her boss’s lead and operated off the government grid?"

http://www.wsj.com/articles/hillary-gets-guccifered-1462487970

This article makes some good points

[grasswire]

1. damn paywall nt

[Cirque du So-What]

8. Guccifer it!

Guccify?

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2. you keep on posting stuff that has no basis in fact now, ok? nt

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3. It is WSJ. nt

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5. WaPo's unnamed sources

are more credible don't you know?

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6. Apparently. nt

[NWCorona]

4. I think that's what you want to believe. nt

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7. this issue (and the pay-to-play foundation donations, and the other important events)

get flogged to death from every which angle (mostly except the ones that matter) and so infused with vagueries and incorrect info that before you know it you're completely numb and sick to death of it. which surely is the intention. you read enough of these stories and the only thing you know is that the SoS uses email, and you're not even certain of that. are we so naive? how about if we just adopt a law that says IOKIYAC so we won't waste any more time or brain-space. sort of like a pre-approved credit card. whatever the good senator does is inherently OK. sheesh.

just because you get away with murder doesn't mean you're not guilty of it.

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9. Of course this is huge.

[NWCorona]

10. And it's why it wasn't dropped last month when NBC first did the interview.

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11. Big Media baddies. They control so much. They created trump.