“Unauthorized users appear to have accessed Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta’s various accounts after an email containing his Apple ID and password was found within the recent WikiLeaks email release,” Charlie Nash reports for Breitbart.
“One user is alleged to have remotely erased Podesta’s iPhone after accessing his Apple account, which contained Podesta’s phone number, address, and various email accounts,” Nash reports. “Another user tagged WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange in a Twitter post along with various screenshots of Podesta’s Apple account and the comment: ‘“You are going to be getting some interesting information shortly.'”
“WikiLeaks have released numerous batches of emails sent from and to Podesta,” Nash reports, “and the leaked emails have since revealed the Clinton Campaign’s coziness to mainstream media reporters, distaste for Catholics, disregard for shootings that could not further their gun control agenda, and Podesta’s very own obsession with extraterrestrials.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Once again, too many people use one password for multiple services and weak passwords at that. Once hackers get it or guess it, they then have access to all sorts of things: cloud storage, bank accounts, Facebook, Twitter, email, etc.
You want to use unique, strong passwords. Use two-step verification for Apple ID to keep your personal information as secure as possible. More info here.
As we’ve written umpteen times: Use Apple’s Keychain Access and iCloud Keychain to create and manage them. When used properly, this system works like a dream.
SEE ALSO:
7 password experts explain how to lock down your online security – May 5, 2016
Why a strong password doesn’t help as much as a unique one – July 22, 2015
Major zero-day security flaws in both iOS and OS X allow theft of Keychain, app passwords – June 17, 2015
Many passwords are so bad they don’t even need to be hacked – January 20, 2015
The secret life of passwords – November 22, 2014
Apple’s iCloud is secure; weak passwords and gullible users are not – September 2, 2014
pssst…it’s “jpodesta@icloud.com,” password: “treason2016”
Jokes aside, it has to be noted that Wikileaks has checked that the credentials were already changed by Podesta before the publication of leaks.
With 69.5 million members, the Catholic Church is the largest religious body in the United States, comprising 22% of the population as of 2015. And they vote.
For too many Dem/Lib/Progs, one pet issue supersedes all of the other issues (for Cook, it’s H-1B visas so he can get cheap labor – see below). So, even though Cook agrees more with Republicans than Democrats on corporate taxation and other issues, he cuts off his nose to spite his face.
Tim, it’d be cheaper to pay American workers a fair wage and get a sound corporate tax policy than it would be to continue importing cheap foreign labor on H-1B visas and be stuck with Democrats who love to overtax and tax the wrong things which stifles the economy overall (hurting the business of selling consumer goods, including electronics, by the way).
American companies and their shareholders, in general, want skilled labor as CHEAPLY as possible. That’s a main reason why Tim Cook, Apple and other tech firms are not supporting Trump – they want unlimited H-1Bs, so they can pay Ajeet from India half what they’d have to pay Tom from Tulsa who can’t find a job after graduating from college and has to live in his parents basement because Apple got Ajeet from India to do it on the CHEAP.
H1-B visas for skilled workers DO NOT EQUAL uneducated illegal aliens streaming across the southern border intent on cashing in on American taxpayer’s largesse while setting up shop in the domestic drug trade and/or other crimes (gangs, rape, robbery, etc.).
Trump is for upholding the laws already on the books designed to protect our borders.
I am going to be civil and polite, but here goes:
Not all Democrats are Liberals or Progressives.
Not all Progressives are Liberals or Democrats.
Not all Liberals are Democrats or Progressives.
The Progressive movement started in the Republican Party and should never be equated with Liberalism in the American vernacular. The Democratic Party for most of it’s history has been a fairly conservative party.
Ms Clinton is a NeoLiberal- not a Liberal in the American sense.
Ms Clinton is NOT a Progressive. She staunchly defended DOMA, gave Dubya a blank check, opposes Wall Street Reform, encourages light touch regulation of Financial Services, thinks Ed Snowden is a criminal, is a great fan of the National Security State and is on the record behind closed doors as favoring an open market for labor and capital throughout the Western Hemisphere, cutting Social Security and opposes Tuition Free Higher Public Universities.
That is hardly a Liberal or a Progressive. That is actually y pretty classic mainstream Republican.
Maybe you didn’t know that, maybe you do not care. Either way, Goldwater Girl Hillary is far closer to the GOP’s traditions than FDR, JFK or LBJ.
An impressive list of political labels you’ve amassed in your post, however, you’ve omitted the one that is true:
Hillary Merkel is a globalist, a traitor to American sovereignty.
“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.”
Winston Churchill
“…Hillary is far closer to the GOP’s traditions than FDR, JFK or LBJ.”
Or Trump, for that matter…
You smoke too much weed, man. You blather on more than Donald Trump. What I do like is your ability to make shit up on the fly. That’s an art.
BTW- Trump is losing, badly. That puts you in a bind. Ytour moniker will have no meaning when the Repbulcians implode in the Nov. Election.
Maybe you could change it to, “First I’m an asshole, then I’m still an asshole.”
You are just setting yourself up for a huge disappointment next month.
By the way, if you think Clinton was reckless by using a Mac server for email just like Powell and many other high ranking government officials from your party too, you must be really scratching your head about Trump’s technical credentials.
Donald Trump’s 10 year old son apparently isn’t quite the cyber security genius that The Donald bragged about in the first debate. He has spent most of the campaign badmouthing Apple, and he relies on antiquated Microsoft services to host his own insecure email.
Clinton can rightly claim that her staffers did some things that shouldn’t have been done. But there was no malicious intent, and security was not compromised according to FBI investigation and public review of the released emails. Meanwhile Trump is nothing but malicious on all things, and his email service — when it works — is a complete security joke. Every 4 years it is the lesser of two evils. Sorry to say, but this time the Republicans have no one to blame but themselves for nominating such a loser.
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/10/windows-server-2003-in-2016-trumps-mail-servers-are-old-and-insecure/
How about them tax returns, Donny? You said you’d release yours as soon as Buffett released his. Warren Buffett released 40 years of tax returns the next day. Interestingly, Buffett pays significant taxes, as do the Clintons. Perhaps because they believe in America?
Ignoramus, comes to mind with this corrupt Hildabeast sellout. You get what you deserve. Two (2) words for this leak… USER ERROR! Take RESPONSIBILITY for your own ineptness. Time to CLEAN HOUSE. Corrupt as corrupt can be. FU John.
In addition to the “Find my iPad” message, there are these –
From:john.podesta@gmail.com
To: saralatham@me.com
Date: 2015-05-12 04:42
Subject: Trouble
Can you see if you can figure out how to contact cabbie.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/2471
From:eryn.sepp@gmail.com
To: john.podesta@gmail.com
Date: 2015-07-19 11:32
Subject: Re: Lost phone
>> On Sunday, July 19, 2015, Eryn Sepp wrote: >> After much searching, they found it! What do you want to do, John? Cabbie is bringing it back to their office in Northeast for now. I can go get it Monday, charge it up, and drop it at your house on my way home if you like. Their office closes at 5 pm so it would be too late by the time you got back from NY. Will do vmail checks today and tomorrow to ensure you aren’t missing too much.
https://wikileaks.org/podesta-emails/emailid/6040
All of you people who love to hate on Trump (yes, he’s an egotistical boor and, yes, I’m still voting for him with millions of others) are hypocrites:
Clinton campaign mocks Catholics, Southerners, ‘needy Latinos’ in emails
If Clinton ever gets in, she’s going to wish she hadn’t. She’ll be the most hated president ever.
This is pretty much a witch hunt, with little direguard for truth or justice. It’s digital rape.
But I suppose some posters here believe that a thug’s life is the good life, with little disregard for their fellow compatriot as long as they think they are winning or getting away with something. Poor sportsmanship from the best vantage point.
oh, the witch hunt was concluded long ago…we found her. You can find her too at:
https://www.hillaryclinton.com
Talking about shillary, aren’t you?
… VERY thin excuse to open a thread where Boty and Both can hold forth and spew against anything not Alt-Right and praise anything that IS Alt-Right. iJah was able to thread that needle with an on-topic comment.
Anyone ELSE want to weigh in for the rapist-in-chief and take a free shot at the not-a-rapist on MDN’s dime?
“Anyone ELSE want to weigh in for the rapist-in-chief and take a free shot at the not-a-rapist on MDN’s dime?”
Sure, here you go: Bill Clinton should’ve been jailed for rape and sexually abusing women long before being elected U.S. President and I don’t like Trump’s hair.
Fisty and Botty and FoxDailyNews.
You are going to lose, and lose BIG.
I’ll stick around long enough to grab your pu$$ies in November, but then I, and dozens of others will leave this stink hole of a website.
Wikileaks once vowed they would NEVER release personal info in their document releases. Guess idealism goes out the window when you’ve got a political ax to grind. So Julian, when are you going to release Trump’s taxes?
…as soon as Lois Lerner gets her hard drive repaired.