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2025-07-02 Cyber

‘Smear campaign’: US downplays pro-Iran hackers’ claims of retrieving Trump emails

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Posted by trailing wife 2025-07-02 2025-07-02 03:05|| E-Mail|| Front Page|| [93 views ] Top
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#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|| 2025-07-02 05:48|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-07-02 10:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2025-07-02 16:53|| Front Page Top

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