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Wikileaks Releases 20,000 DNC Email Archive

posted by martyb on Saturday July 23 2016, @08:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the because-information-wants-to-be-freed dept.

hemocyanin writes:

DNC [Democratic National Committee] top dogs can't seem to wrap their brains around GPG encryption, and so now we have the chance to peruse their emails. Which is nice, but still sort of shocking that the people who want to run the country can't secure their communications. It will probably take a while before anything of great interest is found in the archive because it was just released , but if you want to help in the search, have fun.

Here is one amusing excerpt:

NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you have received it in error, please advise the sender by reply email and immediately delete the message and any attachments without copying or disclosing the contents. Thank you.

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by Justin Case on Saturday July 23 2016, @08:35PM

    by Justin Case (4239) on Saturday July 23 2016, @08:35PM (#379158) Journal

    Vote Democrat, the party of the guy that invented the Internet but doesn't know how to secure their own stuff.

    That's OK, they'll be too busy legislating what the rest of us must and must not do with our computers, because they understand this stuff better than we do.

    And no, I don't expect the Repubs to be any smarter.

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  • (Score: 2) by fnj on Saturday July 23 2016, @10:56PM

    by fnj (1654) on Saturday July 23 2016, @10:56PM (#379201)

    "War is too important a matter to be left to the military." -- Clemenceau

    I like how you can reverse that observation, and it is still every bit as cogent. "War is too important a matter to be left to politicians".

    EVERYTHING is better handled by ANYONE BUT politicians.

    • (Score: 2) by Thexalon on Sunday July 24 2016, @12:48PM

      by Thexalon (636) on Sunday July 24 2016, @12:48PM (#379384)

      I like how you can reverse that observation, and it is still every bit as cogent. "War is too important a matter to be left to politicians".

      I think it's worth putting that one in context: "He said war was too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he might have been right. But today, war is too important to be left to politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought." - General Jack D Ripper

      This from a fictional character who was in the process of starting a global nuclear war.

      --
      The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.