Comment by fmajid
1 day ago
GMail, like Apple, has specific enhanced security programs available for Politically Exposed Persons:
https://landing.google.com/intl/en_in/advancedprotection/
The fact the Director of the FBI did not avail himself of this just reiterates how incompetent he is, in addition to being corrupt as heck.
Read the article he wasn't the director of the FBI: "The stolen emails appear to date from around 2011 to 2022"
Are you suggesting that he was targeted before he became the director of the FBI? That seems unlikely. Once he became an obvious target surely the FBI should have secured his past, present and future communications. But I have no idea what protocols there are for such things, I'm just going off common sense, a notoriously sketchy starting point in the crazy world of the current US administration.
He was well known in the first Trump admin.
He's had over a year to enable it.
woah but even I haven't heard about that gmail feature...?
maybe google doesn't advertise about this much?
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Why would he, when he wasn't director of the FBI then?
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It's possible it was breached in 2022 and they've held on to it until now.
He held very important positions in the US government before 2022, including in the SecDef’s office and DNI in 2020-2021.
This is just a sad story of a partisan hack who failed upwards into one of the most sensitive and powerful offices in the nation, simply for being a loyal sycophant, not merit.
From the article, he wasn't the director of the FBI for the time period the emails are from: "The stolen emails appear to date from around 2011 to 2022"
It's also possible that he maintained security by not putting anything worth hacking on gmail.
It is also possible he is an idiot. There are few valuable sentences that begin with "it is possible..."
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Security in depth. Even if you think you don't have anything particularly valuable in there, you still protect it as if you did.
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> The fact the Director of the FBI did not avail himself of this
well even I haven't seen/heard about this...
maybe google should advertise more?
(or... maybe I don't look important to google :( ?)
Was that landing page written by Google India team !
Uh yeah, the locale in the link is specifically an Indian locale. If you find it it disorienting you can change en_in to en_us:
https://landing.google.com/intl/en_us/advancedprotection/
The confusing thing is that googling "google advanced protection program" takes you to the en_in locale, even if you are in the US. An American has no clue what a crore is, so it is just an SEO failure on Google's part, which is funny. I didn't know there was an en_us equivalent to the page when I googled the topic.
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Not sure what difference the nationality of the copywriters makes…
It doesn’t really tell you where the copywriters were from but you notice that the locale of the page is Indian because the numbers are given in crore.
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"Gmail blocks over 10 crore phishing attempts every day."
Petty racism, probably linked to the FBI director's ethnicity.
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Well, it was written to target Indian English. You can find the American version of the page at https://landing.google.com/intl/en_us/advancedprotection/ .
It would be poetic justice to get the unredacted Epstein files via Iran...