• just_another_person@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    By your logic:

    1. The Gaetz situation is in the news.
    2. “hackers” start scanning the entire Internet
    3. ???
    4. “hackers” find an unsecured machine as you suggest that just happens to have the documents they want
    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      17 hours ago

      By your logic:

      No, not by a long shot.

      I am responding directly to your statement from your OP:

      Skip the middle men and just start leaving shit in insecure places you want the press to get, I say.

      I’m saying the person with the data they want leaked can create the insecure place where they know it will get picked up but still maintain plausible deniability. I’m agreeing with you.