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Most successful "hacking" these days is social hacking

eg, pretending to be your bank...calling you saying there's a problem, and would like to get your SS# and password so they can fix it type stuff. So no, Assange was not a computer genius taking advantage of software techniques to get into a system. he had an insider in the idiot Manning who probably had access to the info himself.

Same with the OPM hacking a few years back they allowed a contractor in w/no clearances. The head of OPM at the time, the idiot and venal Archuleta should be in prison for her lack of concern.

[Post edited by `lag at 04/13/2019 10:37AM]

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Posted: 04/13/2019 at 10:03AM

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