Yeah, much of "hacking" is lamer than the movies show.

If you can read, you’re now a hacker. Which means a good percentage of Trump voters can’t hack.

Bro, I just hacked MYSELF

Somewhat, yeah. A lot of hacking is like that along with social engineering

Basically 80% of the "hacks" in the world find ez password get on lan create admin

Seriously, wouldn't this be kind of huge news if we suddenly had access to the evidence they tried to hide? Too bad this is a news article and someone probably changed the password by now.

There's no news on it and I have to assume it's because if that is the full unredacted email there's probably a ton of CSAM. If so it's technically illegal to own and anyone who is downloading it might be opening themselves up to arrest or legal challenges, even if they're a journalist.

I would presume IF this is a full release of the Epstein GMail account, and IF it's not a honeypot op of some kind from CIA/IDF/SVR/whoever, and IF it's legit... then this is big. Nearly all American news orgs have been gutted though, and I doubt any billionaire that owns the news orgs would be ok with having their wealthy cohort exposed.

Whoever might be investigating this would almost certainly keep quiet until all of their ducks are in a row because the second they publish, they're going to be arrested for CSAM. Unless they're in a country with no extradition treaty with the US. And even then they'll be subject to extraordinary rendition cause Trump don't care about US law, why would the lack of an extradition treaty stop him?

From what I remember, the guy said that not much was left and most of the emails were deleted

Many hackers agree that the best way to hack someone is through social engineering to just have them tell you your password.

Its technically hacking due to it not being your account. Unauthorized access.

Hacking is very wide and can include things like this. It does not have to be as technical, hard or clever as most gatekeep it to be.

Source: 20 years of experience in the space

ex. password stuffing brute force is hacking

Unauthorized access to a computer system is hacking. It's trespassing.

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All I can see is *******

They were so busy hunting for the rapists they completely forgot about passwords......or we've got some decent folks weaponizing "incompetence"

Apparently the word “don’t” can also be found redacted.

Because they did a regex for Don(.)T and didn’t bother to check

*******

Huh?

We already have a ton of names. Nobody is getting burned.

If they'd stop talking about Linux or posting furry porn for a minute they would.

/s