Pages 2 through 5 listed the names and phone numbers of three U.S. staff members as well as the names of 13 U.S. and Russian state leaders. The list provided phonetic pronouncers for all the Russian men expected at the summit, including "Mr. President POO-tihn."

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[–] 84 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

... They used a hotels printer to print sensitive documents???

Brother in Christ. Yes, good, network printers are a bastion of security.

Little old me could have legitimately intercepted that if they printed it while connected to a hotel wifi.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Don't copiers have hdds that copy everything scans and printed into them?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    Many do have internal memory. Agencies that need to copy sensitive documents will have them removed. If that is not possible, copyer goes on a list when it is procured so that when it is sold or trashed someone has to go take the drive out and shred it.

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  • [–] 68 points 1 year ago

    Opsec so clean you could defund your public media

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The level of ineptitude is almost as great as the level of corruption.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Look, I'm frankly shocked that the ONLY thing of real sensitive value left there was names and numbers of members there.

    This is the group that accidentally brought a rando in on a secret channel for a military strike, at this point I would have been less shocked if the printer had a stack of F-35 blueprints.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    Exceedingly competent work, as always.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    “in honor of his excellency Vladimir Putin.”

    Lovely.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There's gotta be someone working at that hotel that could off Putin, how hard could it be?

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  • [–] -1 points 1 year ago*

    Say there were one person willing, and able to do it. Would it have been beneficial for the state of the world? This is a genuine question

    Like, yes, obviously it likely would have been beneficial for Ukraine and possibly even the Russian people (in the long run), but it would also break the promise of diplomatic safety, and would that lead to better outcomes for the world long term?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    Is the silent “h” necessary in the phonetic pronunciation of Poo-tin’s name?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Here's my prediction of what will happen

    1. This will slowly (or rapidly) make its waves through the papers until it's being brought up and sensationalized by Instagram and TikTok influencers. Some girl will go viral talking about it overlayed over a shitty screenshot of the article.
    2. The comments will be full of people continuing to shout about Epstein and Gaza in the comments (not that I necessarily disagree), mixed in with right wing bots calling it a lunch menu (private accounts with thousands of followers, generic pictures, and Jesus captions)
    3. Trump will boast about how we have THE BESTEST national security
    4. The federal government will devote all their energy into finding out who this guest is, down to subpoenas and/or extortion, assuming the hotel doesn't immediately capitulate
    5. By this point half the population will have forgotten about it, but Trump won't be happy until everyone is silent. He will do something big to distract from this + the Epstein files, like sending the military into Mexico
    6. Rinse and repeat
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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Something something buttery males

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Clowns gonna clown, right?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    People get arrested for less than this.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    We can just stop pretending we hold our government leaders and law enforcement to any standard of professionalism at all.

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  • [+] 1 point 1 year ago