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‘Smear campaign’: US downplays pro-Iran hackers’ claims of retrieving Trump emails
2025-07-02
[IsraelTimes] Hackers say they hold large cache of emails from president’s chief of staff Susie Wiles, other top advisers and porn actor Stormy Daniels.
Posted by:trailing wife

#3  They don't do "onions" they just use plain simple email or cellphone text services.

All needed for access is bribe money for some operative in an email provider or cellphone provider server farm, possibly located in a third world s******e at least semi unfriendly to the West.

Message to Panetta, Trump, von der Leyen and all concerned parties:

Don't write anything in an email of a cellphone text that you don't want Xi, Khamenei or Putin to know.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2025-07-02 16:53  

#2  traffic analysis

In an onion network, messages are encapsulated in layers of encryption, analogous to the layers of an onion. The encrypted data is transmitted through a series of network nodes called "onion routers," each of which "peels" away a single layer, revealing the data's next destination.

While onion routing provides a high level of security and anonymity, there are methods to break the anonymity of this technique, such as timing analysis...
Posted by: Skidmark   2025-07-02 10:32  

#1  If the Trump entourage or anyone else believed that their email communication isn't accessible to all interested international players they're hopelessly naive.

Even if they used end-to-end encryption they would open themselves up to traffic analysis though the actual content would be concealed.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2025-07-02 05:48  

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