DailyMailUK: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has said a 14-year-old could have hacked into the emails of Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman.
John Podesta’s emails were made public by the whistleblowing website and proved to be a hammer blow to the Democrat’s election campaign as she lost out to Trump.
In an interview, Assange revealed the campaign chairman’s password was ‘password’ and that he had responded to phishing emails.
The Wikileaks founder said he was 1,000 percent confident the Russians did not hack the Clinton campaign, adding Barack Obama was ‘trying to delegitimize the Trump administration’.
‘A 14-year-old kid could have hacked Podesta that way,’ Assange told Sean Hannity on Fox News.
He added Clinton made ‘almost no attempt’ to secure her private emails, which featured in more than 50,000 leaked documents published by WIkileaks.
Assange, who was interviewed at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, also said he questioned whether US media outlets would have done the same.
‘It’s more like, “You rub my back, I’ll rub yours. I’ll give you information, you’ll come to my – I’ll invite you to my child’s christening or my next big party”,’ he said in the interview, referring to the Clinton party’s relationship with reporters.
was hillary’s “huma” or “putin”?
I would have expected Pizza or something like that
Podesta The Molesta could have at least put a “.” after his “password” password.
Maybe a “14-year-old” RUSSIAN “kid could have hacked Podesta that way”
I’m starting to wonder if Podesta was the one who leaked the emails to Wikileaks. Otherwise, that dude should wear safety gear because he is too stupid to function safely.
It never ceases to amaze me when on TV shows they ‘figure out’ someone’s password. You can’t ‘figure out’ my passwords – they are simple enough to remember but are not some particular name dear to me or a birthday, they are essentially random but not so complex I can’t remember them.
And for anyone in real life to do this? Absolute idiocy.
With a password like that, Biden could have hacked that account.
Why not blame it on Felix Dzerzhinsky and the Cheka? Of course Putin and the FSB could have hacked Podesta and the DNC. Maybe they did. What is more interesting at this point is that the MSDM is supporting the idea that Russians helped defeat Clinton. At this point what difference does it make? As Assange said, it deligetimizes the Trump Administration. So the MSDM is doing the work of the Russian Federal Security Service. That’s a big difference.
And the left is deemed intellectually superior?
I work as an administrator on several secure servers and computer systems. I can set the number of characters, special symbols, numbers, lower or UPPER case letters needed, how often the password has to be changed and how close the new password can be to the old one.
“Hi, my name is John Podesta”
Never mind.
He should’ve changed it to something tricky, like “admin”.
Podesta’s new passphrase is “doEs that PIZza come in boY flavors^&”…..time till next mandatory reset- NEVER.
I read somewhere that after the war it was found that the combination to Gen. Leslie Groves safe at the Manhattan Project was still set to the factory default combination. Foolish data security choices are not new. If that is a true story.
Technically, his password was ‘p@ssw0rd’, not ‘password’ but it is 101 Hacking to try the letter substitutions in words like the ‘@’ for ‘a’, ‘0’ (zero) for ‘o’, ‘3’ for ‘e’, ‘7’ for ‘L’, etc. Slows a hacker down for a few more milliseconds is all that technique does.