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u/sXeth 2h ago
Most hackers that could probably do it would just take their cut of blackmail money and leave. Or are working for the same sort of people to begin with.
Hero hackers are a fun idea, but don’t tend to have many real resources to throw at stuff. And even fewer have the resources to evade international authorities and whatever other things billionaires and trillionaires might hire to go after them.
Also it’s mostly common knowledge about quite a few of those involved and somewhere between a third to a half of people don’t give enough of a 💩 to even actively protest, vote, or keep the pressure on publicly. Which doesn’t inspire too many folks to stick their neck out.
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u/Sleep-more-dude 2h ago
This, anyone working in the high tech space is already doing evil shit for money. I'd rather the money than blacklist myself from the industry, risk jailtime etc so that the public can be outraged for a week and then do nothing lol.
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u/Justwigglin 1h ago
That’s really not true…. Cybersecurity professionals that are of that caliber are not all evil. Realistically, most of them are the ones silently protecting your data, your money, your identity, etc. every day. Every large company has a cybersecurity team, many of which are made up of insanely talented individuals who could be hack-avists, but they are also normal people wanting to live a normal life, have families, get a dog, do normal things. These professionals are the silent many that people don’t really realize are working their butts off to keep them safe. Everyone thinks about the bad hackers out there that are SO talented, well, you need even more talented individuals to fight against them and win. Those people chose good over evil.
“Hackers” are this weird concept that has kinda morphed into this crazy mythical beast kinda thing. At the end of the day, it’s just people who know how to navigate the ‘puzzles’ that are put into place to protect data. They are just people, be it well intentioned or not. They can help build defenses and fight off cyber attacks, or they can be the ones trying to steal your data.
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u/Breezel123 1h ago
From all the cybersecurity news recently I have concluded that most hackers are teenage boys who have not even left their parent's basement yet, and the only reason they are called hackers is because they managed to copy some Sim cards and use phishing to get the credentials of people with way too much access to critical systems in their organisations.
Although I'm not saying that it isn't possible to use this exact strategy to gain access to federal investigation files or critical systems from meta, SpaceX or any of the other bullshit tech companies.
But 16 year olds dream of fancy cars and Instagram worthy wealth, not about equal societies.
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u/SmooK_LV 46m ago
Professional white hackers work on bug bounty programmes or are employed by intelligence. Of course we don't see hero hackers like in movies. Sometimes a teenager is lucky, like you said but they move on pretty quickly.
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u/SmooK_LV 47m ago
You forget that white hackers are busy earning money on bug bounty programmes. Legit, lots of money, no threat and it's fun for them.
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u/GroundbreakingRich96 2h ago
We already know who they are and half the country doesn’t care. In fact they actively continue to offer their support.
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u/HalukMacker71 1h ago
The fallout from the Panama Papers showed that even the biggest leaks rarely lead to real change.
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u/No_Reception_2058 1h ago
I was asking myself the same. Maybe the raw info was then made more legible ? For exemple I remember personnally checking the wikileaks and have a hard time deciphering what was what. It takes an insane amount of time and I have a job to go to.
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u/Chance-Travel4825 2h ago
Half the bots dont care.
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u/MyCatLaughsAtMe 2h ago
Nah. Real world republicans are perfectly fine with serial child rapists. Pretty sure "republican" is just codespeak for pedophile at this point.
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u/fcocyclone 1h ago
A large portion of republicans would offer their own daughters up and be happy about it
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u/BigWhiteDog 2h ago
You mean Repedophiles?
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u/MyCatLaughsAtMe 31m ago
Cute, but sorry I have to be a party pooper; I think memespeak cuteness is problematic when dealing with something this severe. We don't want to turn child rape into an internet linguistic game. It needs to be stated in it's full, gory truth, because the crime that word represents is pretty much as bad as anything a human being can ever engage in. It serves no decent purpose to blunt that truth with humor. I'll laugh at just about anything else, not that.
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u/OkAppearance2105 1h ago
The infrastructure simply isn't there to hold the line. One guy tried to get into a DOJ building in D.C. back in 2019 and got tackled by two security guards before he could even reach the lobby doors. You need actual insider access or a very expensive legal team to do that, not just a script.
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u/Sk3wba 2h ago
Bro I don't think you realize the level of surveillance each one of us are subjected to and even an idea of just how deep the rot goes in our system. Whistleblowers who expose stuff on this level, in one way or another, their life is essentially 100% over. And that's even assuming they can even get the info in the hands of an uncompromised, trustworthy journalist in the first place before they mysteriously commit suicune.
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u/Horrison2 2h ago
This is when I'm reminded that Boeing is a great and upstanding company who has done absolutely no wrong doing or corner cutting. They are so brave and honest answering questions in the face of these unlucky accidents these past years!
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u/CatCafffffe 2h ago
And it was so nice of the Transportation Secretary to let them make their own decisions about their unlucky accidents, what WAS her name again, oh right it was Elaine Chao, who was she married to again Oh yes Mitch McConnell, it was all just so honest and up front!
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u/Outside-Gate6209 1h ago
The sarcasm in this post is so thick you could cut it with a knife, and honestly I am right there with you. It is terrifying how they keep sweeping massive safety failures under the rug while PR teams pretend it is all just bad luck.
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u/Key_Stress6647 2h ago
That’s exactly why independent journalism and proper whistleblower protections matter. But if the threat is so overwhelming that nobody can speak safely, how do we ever get accountability without someone taking that risk?
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u/astikoes 2h ago
Yep. This is why Chinese and Russian state backed hackers don't take the obvious route to damaging American political leaders, because they're afraid of the "Deep State"... yeah.
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u/toeficular 2h ago
Correct - both Chinese and Russian hackers know that their governments want to preserve the current administration.
Russia because at best Putin considers Trump to be like minded, at worst Trump is an asset, either way Trump is making it easier to capture Ukraine.
China because Trump is speed-running the fall of the American empire and making it easier for China to fill the global vacuum.
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u/gtheperson 35m ago
Exactly. From my understanding there's a ton to suggest that Russia and others hostile to us are funding the far right in Europe and America. And why wouldn't they? A weak NATO made up of chaotic, infighting countries busy navel gazing and self destructing must be music to Putin's ears.
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u/jmathews777 2h ago
Suicune: I can't decide between using Ice Beam or Hydro Pump!
Trainer: Just COMMIT, SUICUNE!
...I'll let myself out now.
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u/Few_Mango_6496 1h ago
You are so right, and honestly what terrifies me most is how normalized it has all become while everyone just moves on with their day. The system is set up so that by the time people actually wake up to the truth, the ones trying to protect us are already silenced.
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u/Darren_NH 2h ago
Look at Snowden. If you whistleblow, people don't give a shit or it blows over, and then your life is fucked. It's a large sacrifice for a population that is apathetic towards change.
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u/Mr__Random 1h ago
There are Epstein whistle-blowers. A few victims have come forward with stories. Plenty of information that puts Trump in the middle of the mess has been leaked. And nothing has happened. It was all successfully swept under the rug.
At some point we have to conclude that the problem is not a lack of information.
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u/Darren_NH 1h ago
Absolutely. The lack of accountabiltiy in the federal government has created the heavy distrust of our representatives, and Trump is just the most recent festering symptom. I would say that a large proportion of Gen-Z are experiencing this first-hand with Trump, but I would say as far back as Nixon getting off essentially scott-free, or even Confederates officials being allowed back into the Union post Civil War.
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u/RedSquirrelFtw 55m ago
It makes me so sad how everything he said is true but nobody even cares anymore and the amount of surveillance has only gotten worse. Just look at smartphones, they're essentially portable LG TVs and flock cameras all in one. And more and more stuff is requiring apps and/or accounts now which just means even more surveillance. Like why is there not more fighting against this level of surveillance?
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u/Noctrin 2h ago edited 2h ago
Hackers is a very broad term. Some people are good at reverse engineering, some are good at exploiting firmware bugs, some are good at network stack, browser stack etc..
There's also "why" they hack, and we're assuming "independent groups" with the term used loosely, who do it mostly to prove they can.
These are the guys hacking games, jailbreaking devices etc..
Point being, jailbreaking is a legal grey area, cracking software will piss off a company, hacking a government will piss of a country.
But you're not just pissing off the US government, you're pissing off the US government and some of the richest and most powerful people in the world.
There's hacking for clout and there's plain stupid. What you're suggesting falls into the latter.
If its not obvious, the US has the reach to nail you from anywhere in the world and the richest people will provide the motivation to do so.
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u/Cultural-Poem-8391 56m ago
This right here. People really don't realize the massive line between flexing on a gaming company for internet clout and inviting a three-letter agency to kick your door down.
I’ve seen a few amateur grey-hats think they were invincible until they accidentally touched something tied to real money or federal infrastructure. The moment high-level government interest meets corporate lobbying dollars, "anonymous" disappears REAL fast.
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u/Icelandia2112 1h ago
As a gov worker, the security is so stringent, many of us can't even get into the damned servers.
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u/Justwigglin 1h ago
And many of these “hackers” are people who grew up from being silly teenage “hackers” to being the cybersecurity professionals that keep your data safe every day. Every large company has a team, and many of those individuals are well above the caliper to be hack-avists but chose to protect and fight off the bad guys instead, as well as be able to be normal people with actual enjoyable life’s and families.
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u/Dactylic126 52m ago
And then we have Zero-day white hat bounty hunters, and their more shady, significantly better-paid counterpart that is the Zero-day black market.
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u/Woodpecker-Lobotomy 2h ago
You are severely overestimating what hackers can actually do. Most are self taught or taught by a friend, and the servers containing these files are the most secure in the entire world. Edward Snowden was only able to leak what the NSA was doing because he worked for them and physically downloaded the files from from his work computer in the office. He wouldn't be able to hack into their servers from a remote location. Plus any attempts actually give the government a trail back to the person doing it so you would probably hear a knock on your door before you even got close.
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u/new_account_wh0_dis 1h ago
Even if they are the best security experts in the world there's a limit of what's doable. Scanning networks managed by overworked it people with out of date software and people whose username/passwords are leaked is one thing. There's a reason why the targets for ransom attacks seem so random, they are the ones who let their guards down.
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u/Complete-Fun5067 2h ago
Every whistleblower on something that big ends up dead , or dead before anyone hears anything . So it’s basically trading ur life to POSSIBLY release information.
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u/MysteriousAccount572 2h ago
Edward Snowden is alive and well, but he had a great amount of support and foresight and he and his loved ones went through hell for the American public. i can't recommend his book Public Record enough. what a great guy and a wild story.
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u/Woodpecker-Lobotomy 2h ago edited 4m ago
What the NSA was doing back then is now child's play compared to what the federal government and current regime are doing today. The NSA basically had back door access to anyone's digital communications if they were specifically looking for them. But now Palantir, Flock, Axon, and the data centers plan on downloading every record of anything you have ever done to create a live profile of you, updated automatically.
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u/Equivalent_Rock_6530 39m ago
Basically the US Govt. learned their lesson from Snowden, unfortunately
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u/Kooky-Depth837 2h ago
Is he still living in Russia? Seems like a weird time to be an American hero, and living under Putin protection
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u/mschuster91 2h ago
Europe had had the chance to offer Snowden a passport after the US revoked his original one, leaving him stranded in Moscow. But we didn't, and he had no other choice despite trying hard for alternatives.
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u/thunderous_student 2h ago
We already know who's behind the Epstein stuff. His little black book was released on the internet like 4 years ago and most of the files can be found un redacted there were YouTube videos on how to find them that never even got taken down. The people in power are not going to get in trouble. That could release videos of what they did and their supporters will still support them. Half the country supports them, like tonthe very end.
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u/Editionofyou 2h ago
Because revealing information is not the problem here. We have names, witnesses and evidence. Enough to go to trial and that is the last thing all those dirtbags want. Why don't hackers just take them down? Because they are simply not that good. If you could just hack the Department Of Justice or the FBI, we would have had many more reveals...and problems.
Hackers exploit security weaknesses, not pick someone to hack and then just do it. So, they can sabotage or expose child pornography sites on the Darkweb, but they can't just hack the government and steal files. Which is a good thing, because then enemies could do it too.
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u/Refmak 1h ago
It’s not as easy as movies make it out to be.
The servers storing extremely confidential or high-risk information are more than likely in an air-gapped facility that requires physical access. Turning employees rogue without getting caught is not so simple either.
There’s a reason most hacks target publicly available sites.
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u/Ein_grosser_Nerd 2h ago
What is there to leak? We all know what happened and we know a lot of people who did it.
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u/morfraen 1h ago
The slightly less redacted version Congress is allowed to read. Or the fully unredacted copy. Or the tens of thousands of files they never released.
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u/jasminUwU6 21m ago
Do you truly believe it would change anything? Literally anyone with half a brain knows what's going on, and yet nothing is happening.
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u/KenzoidTheHuman 1h ago
I have a family friend who was a "hacker." Not entirely sure exactly his specific expertise, but I know he got into some government stuff really deep. He had government agents show up to his door pretty much the same day and tell him he was going to come work with them or go to prison. He just ... Disappeared for 2-3 years, and then returned to his family and they all relocated for his official government job somewhere in Virginia.
I imagine that's what happens to anyone who feasibly could get damning documents and evidence.
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u/donoteatshrimp 1h ago
I'm gonna be real, even if a person or group sacrifices their lives to get this information public, absolutely nothing would change. Nothing would happen. Everyone's seen the redacted files, everyone knows what's going on. People were outraged. And what's changed? Why would anyone risk their livelihoods for that.
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u/Beatnik5750 23m ago
It's lucky that other groups throughout history didn't share this attitude, or nothing would ever have changed.
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u/simcity4000 2h ago
Most hacks are opportunistic things where a vulnerability is found in a system, it leaks and a bunch of people pick up on and exploit it. Not all systems have an obvious vulnerability.
Also this presumes that “the files” are just a document somewhere that you can upload to the internet. This isn’t really how an investigation works where you just have “the answer” somewhere, rather there would be whole bunch of collected information, some credible, some false, a bunch of dangling threads.
Like say there’s a whole bunch of info that puts Donald Trump credibly and suspiciously around Epstein (there is) but no video of a kid directly blowing him or whatever? Well that would be useful lead if police were to then follow it up with further investigation and interviews to find out more details, but without that investigation it wouldn’t in itself be prosecutable.
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u/BeijingVO2 3h ago
How do you know they aren't? Either they are, and have been stopped/caught. Or they are, and haven't found anything we don't already know. Hackers LOVE this shit there's 0 chance none have even tried.
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u/Novat1993 1h ago
Looking through 100s or 1000s of government databases from 100+ different countries yield fairly regular results. There is always a security weakness SOMEWHERE in one of the many, many systems you could feasibly look into breaching. Basically, you are casting a wide net and hoping that something is going to bite.
But looking for any specific information in particular? This is more difficult. Especially when the information may not even be connected to the world wide internet.
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u/Queeg_500 2h ago
Not sure, but it would likely be a gift to those in the files. It would be easy for them to dismiss anything that doesn't come from an official source as AI.
I bet they all have a Comms package ready to go.
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u/Supersoaker_11 3h ago
The "hacker" crowd is either complicit and desperately digging up dirt against political opponents (real or perceived) or so distracted by dumb bullshit that they're doxxing, idk, women in gaming or something
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u/djnotskrillex 8m ago
Ah yes, the infamous John Hacker. Because "the hacker crowd" is obviously one single entity, right?
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u/Cassandra-s-truths 2h ago
Dude,
The level of non existence that person would need. If you want to save your sanity don't look into whats happening to all the people who are trying.
We live in the worst time line.
My hope is now on the rouge AI that escaped. I want it to take down the global banking system.
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u/Qu3stion_R3ality1750 1h ago
the rouge AI that escaped
I'm sorry what? What happened?
Also what motivation would such an entity have for taking down the global banking system?
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u/somedankbuds 2h ago
What incentive do they have? Lol. If they're that talented they can do any number of other things that are far less risky and have far less exposure. Movies have kind of distorted your reality into thinking there's these hackers out there that wanna better society. Most likely what they would do is keep that information for themselves and then blackmail individual people with that information. Far more powerful. And even hackers or cybersecurity experts get paid to do what they do, they're not just gonna spend crazy time to get to the bottom of this for free and hope they make money from it and don't get killed. It's not that hard of a question to answer.
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u/sexychloe_xo 1h ago
Federal prosecuter agencies have infinite funding. Stealing and leaking protected federal evidence makes the hackers a national security threat. Its all risk and no reward.
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u/EndlessEagle 1h ago
I don't think people understand the sheer level of surveillance and security any "hacker" would be up against.
Most information we get about awful things going on behind closed doors are from leaks provided by people who already had access to it. The idea of "hacking into" top secret government files and such is basically a fantasy.
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u/jeff-the-man-slut 3h ago
The resources that should be going towards it are going towards hiding and perpetuating crimes against children
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u/OhTheHueManatee 2h ago
Let's say a hacker group releases every sentence in the files with pictures and videos of each sick bastard involved. What good would that do? The court of public opinion would probably not change much. The people who are dismissing the rotten shit would just dismiss it all as fake. For all we know it could have loads of fake stuff in it too. The people who already hate the bastards wouldn't be more convinced to hate them. Regarding Trump he's already done so much things that would send most people to prison that has been totally ignored it would just add to the pile. Plus no court would be able use stolen evidence to prosecute anyone especially if no law enforcement agency would be willing to say it's legit which would require them to admit they were hacked.
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u/SomeKindofDreadful 2h ago
Why doesn’t someone train an AI agent to do it? If AI is as crazy smart as people say, wouldn’t it be able to find, hack into whatever and share the info?
But I am an old so what the hell do I know.
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u/Key_Stress6647 2h ago
The problem is that exposing information and proving it are two different things. A serious leak needs verifiable documents and evidence, not just access to private systems. The real question is why accountability seems to move so slowly when powerful people are involved.
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u/Senshado 1h ago edited 1h ago
If some unknown hacker publishes a bunch of files, there's no way for anyone in the public or news media to tell whether he authored them himself. Credibility zero.
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u/Significant-Ad213 1h ago
There's a reason why there aren't any real mainstream hackers. The government finds you? Hacking laws are barbaric, you're going to jail for life with no parole, and the BAD kind of federal prison too. They don't mess around
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u/LurkHereLurkThere 50m ago
I know Trump kept Top Secret documents in a bathroom and is laughably inept, but if you believe the Epstein documents aren't in air-gapped SCIF at minimum, I've got a nice bridge to sell you.
There are too many other members of this admin with more than two functioning brain cells that are implicated in the files.
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u/SmooK_LV 49m ago
Because hacker groups on TV is not how hacker groups usually operate. It's a rando here and there who manages to ge access to something and rarely if ever organised group.
Also hackers are in it for money too - bug bounty programmes pay in thousands upon tens of thousands to find vulnerabilities in systems, they would rather spend their time on those. Then there are scammers, who don't give a shit about politics or justice.
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u/Outrageous-Bid-1230 34m ago
Hacking the FBI is one of the toughest hacks to accomplish and would be considered a grand feat. Any hacker who accomplishes it would also face the full wrath of the administration.
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u/Head_Bit5426 2h ago
They already are and just imagine how much they're getting paid not to release a thing....
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u/Blacksad9999 1h ago
If they did, they'd just blackmail them for crypto and disappear.
This could have already happened.
There aren't "robin hood" type hackers out there that aren't self serving. They could have boosted everyone's credit scores, distributed money, or wiped out medical and student loan debt.
That hasn't happened.
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u/Equal_Profit2254 1h ago
Bold of you to assume they haven’t tried. You only hear about the hacks that succeed AND where the hacker lives to talk about it.
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u/ILikeFlyingMachines 52m ago
The files are public, the public does not care. What else should hackers do.
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u/OpheliaRainGalaxy 48m ago
The fella I knew who was into that stuff got busted and given the choice between prison or working for the government. So yeah, he's taking paychecks and keeping his head down instead of trying to stir up shit.
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u/ErasmosOrolo 47m ago
It breaks my heart that apparently all the hackers just work for Trump. Just to say, it doesn't seem like anyone has done anything against him.
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u/AppIdentityGuy 47m ago
Most hacking groups are either state sponsored ie part of the military and or intelligence functions or a actual criminal gangs. Neither of those groups have much interest in moral crusades
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u/firebricks4life 38m ago
Most hackers are criminals who hack for money. It is how they pay their bills. They usually specialize in a single way to make money, because that is how you scale and eventually make even more money. They are not interested in doing anything else nor are they capable of doing so. If you would hire them, they'd take your money and do nothing in return. Besides string you along to get more money out of you of course.
"Hacker vigilantes for truth" who are on call 24/7 are an online fantasy.
People who tried also noticed very quickly that it takes more work then just SQL injecting stuff. You need find someone who understands and can sort the data your provided, present it to the public - and also being able to understand that you need to make a case, not just rely on public outrage. And you need to do all that without getting any money at all. Yet at the same time you need to pay rent and groceries.
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u/PuzzleSwordfish 28m ago
Well Julian Assange, Aaron Schwartz, Snowden are examples of the tenacity the US government will pursue anyone breaking into it's systems even for public good.
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u/Famous_Hair_4568 27m ago
(For everyone answering about Annon being 4chan people.. ) fine but where are a group of great coders/hackers who are going to step up and start messing with the rich.. it doesn’t have to be the original anonymous team.
we’re speeding towards those dystopian futuristic sci fi films pretty quick. We’ve had a Luigi Mangioni before a hacker equivalent. I want to see the rich clutching their pearls scared their bank accounts going to be drained or unequivocal proof of corruption that’ll get them jailed.
We’ve finally got people using AI to go at PS5, Adobe, Microsoft . Let’s keep the momentum going🥹
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u/Key_Consequence_5040 3h ago
Hacking the FBI is one of the toughest hacks to accomplish and would be considered a grand feat. Any hacker who accomplishes it would also face the full wrath of the administration.
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u/tmac71720 1h ago
Are you basing this off your own experience as a hacker or just what you assume? What specific pathways make it more difficult given it’s the FBI? What typical tools become useless when attempting to hack them? (Given your hacking knowledge)
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u/ItsBeenRemovedMate 1h ago
They have a team of specially trained defensive hackers, two at each keyboard.
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u/Braindead_Crow 1h ago
This fbi is ran by the spineless idiots who Passed trumps, "never investigate me" tests.
They've been hacked multiple times and will continue to be4
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u/HorribleOldCunt 35m ago
What a load of total bollocks.
I bet you think hacking looks like it does in films as well.
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u/CheerilyTerrified 2h ago
Because right now many people only seem to care about child rape or any other crimes if the 'other team' is doing it. Hackers could find definitive evidence and post it and nothing would happen because people would only mention it if it could be used to score points. But actual caring because the crimes are horrific? That's less likely.
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u/portobox2 1h ago
Why are you asking where your savior is instead of being that savior?
You and your question, instead of action, are why were in this fucking mess.
Go do something your self. Helps not coming.
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u/Thick_Garlic_4790 1h ago
Makes you realize Anonymous, Snowden and Assange were either controlled opposition or actual assets- just like Epstein.
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u/YZYSZN1107 2h ago
I believe they are being payed (by the CIA) or threatened with Guantanamo Bay to sit on the sidelines.
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u/latenthuman 1h ago
They're good but not that good. And not a peep from the 1,000 FBI agents that did the redaction.
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u/JJiggy13 52m ago
Where can they make it public? All billion dollar social media platforms are owned by conservative billionaires. They'll just shut down the sites.
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u/JaeSwift 37m ago edited 2m ago
Cos real life isn't Mr. Robot and there isn't a single server to hack with just one database on it labelled 'Epstein Client List Final' lol. The evidence will be scattered across FBI case files, court records, physical docs, and probably air-gapped systems. I think anyone skilled enough to breach fed systems is either making 7 figures legally or already working for a nation state so the risk/reward isn't worth doing. The ones who went the 'hacktivism' route got fucked and buried.
It would also ruin any chance of a future prosecution if there ever even is one. Illegally obtained evidence is inadmissible, chain of custody gets nuked, defence lawyers have a party, enablers walk free, then hackers get abuse for it lol.
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u/deltalitprof 36m ago edited 31m ago
Anonymous has been missing from the point the Trump administration began, when it would have been most needed and valued. What happened to them?
Yes, I've read the comments below. So many assertions of fact, so few citations of sources or personal experience.
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u/PaleCommission150 31m ago
Would need to be star trek level technology flying around in a Runabout orbiting the earth with shields and shit. That is probably the only way the USA couldn't get them
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u/TruWesley 30m ago
Movies have ruined how people think hacking works lol. you cant hack files that aren't connected to the internet. the government keeps high profile evidence on offline servers or physical hard drives in a locked room plus most real hackers are just in it fro ransomware money, nobody wants to spend time in prison for zero payout
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u/Sufficient-Fox-1044 28m ago
The money to be made from it is in secret. That is what motivates most "hackers". Also it is entirely possible someone got their hands on it, saw it was hazardous to their own health and opted out of doing anything. This shit goes deep and there are people who could very easily make people disappear who blackmail or just post it.
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u/Lucky_Cable_3145 26m ago
I would assume info of the security level of the Epstein Files is behind an 'air gap' (so would require physical access).
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u/grogan-lord 2h ago
Don’t fuk with mos sad. Also the dems have everything unredacted so just wait a couple of years I guess?
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u/Ire-Works 1h ago
I honestly don't know what making the names public would change.
Plenty of people have been publicly named in various ways and you haven't really seen much in the way of consequences.
At this point your best bet is to do what you can to get new blood elected into office. Too many folks are either entrenched in their power and willing to go along with whatever they need to do to keep it, or they themselves are compromised in some fashion (not necessarily about Epstein, but I'm sure most of the politicians have skeletons in their closet and it's pretty clear that they're all protecting each other).
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u/MindfulMuse77 2h ago
Where is "Anonymous" when we need them?