“Honey! Why are these letters you wrote in the news?!” You rush to your spouse’s side and see not only your personal letters, but also your partially completed job application and your social security number! Not too long ago CIA Director John Brennan found himself in this situation. A self-identifying “high school hacker” that didn’t like the USA’s foreign policy decided to hack into Brennan’s personal email account and make the information he stole publicly available. While this hack may have some short-term political weight, I fear that this single act of stupidity may have incalculable negative effects on this country and its citizens. While Brennan is dealing with the “political” fallout of what he said 10 years ago, recently brought to light by this “noble” hacker, Brennan’s not going to be able to pay the same attention to his job as he normally would. This provides the opportunity for a potential threat to the country to be misjudged and slip “under the radar” costing this country economically (or even costing American lives). If left unpunished, I fear that this crime will also encourage other hackers to commit similar crimes in the future- crimes ultimately harming the country rather than contributing to its overall well-being.
See the article that inspired this post here.
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