Hacker Is Said to Have Gained Access to File With Damaging Testimony About Gaetz

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

Story time about how much our media sucks:

2007, I was working for a small local television station in Washington state. Governors election between Christine Gregoire and Dino Rossi. Through rummaging around on reddit, I found a lawyer with evidence that Rossi had illegally been accepting large donations from the Master Builders Association.

This was direct from the lawyer and court documents. I printed up copies and put them on every newsies desk, since I was just News Production, and not a "journalist" myself.

I'll never forget our Producer talking to me about it, and how she "hadn't seen anything about it on the AP newswire" so she wasn't sure about it being true. I pointed out these were court documents and asked "have you ever heard of 'breaking a story?'"

We would not run the story until two weeks later, when the story had finally been picked up by the AP newswire... then we finally ran the story. Doing your own research as a journalist? That's outside the job description apparently.

This is up there with when NASA was going to be testing Lunar Rovers two hours away and our journalists were like "isn't that outside of our coverage area?" Still photos of the lunar rover testing were the top story on wired.com internationally for a month afterwards. I guess the whole world was outside of our coverage area.

Anyway, this is the kind of thinking you're working against. Don't break a story, don't go outside your "coverage area." These stories from me are almost 20 years old but I don't expect for the television industry to have gotten smarter since then.

So leaving the documents for them to find can easily result in those documents just getting memory-holed unless they show up on the AP newswire.

It's like the opposite of a USB drop attack

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

Should we call these Honeypot leaks? Create a server running on completely unpatched Windows XP then put what you want leaked, then attach it raw dog to the internet without any kind of firewall.

A third wouldn't care, a third would jack off to it and you know sanity is in a minority.

People in Congress already hate his guts, this will give them an objective reason to vote him down without drawing the wrath of trump. I mean he'll fume about it, but most normal congress people aren't going to stick their necks out for a proven pedophile.

In some states. But not the states he was in. Plus, he likely trafficked her across state lines, which is a whole other set of charges.

i hope this will lead to never having the -gate suffix appended to every stupid fucking controversy, but i suspect how little sense it makes is going to completely miss people

Let's hope for more scandals and leaks so we can collectively refer to them as GaetzGates