#hacking

Many of you would like to be future politicians. You imagine a future where you run for president or become a senator. You hold significant influence over policy. However while pursuing this dream one thing, one misstep can ruin your chances to ever achieve this goal. A series of password leaks in 2016 cost Hillary Clinton the election. https://wikileaks.org/clinton-emails/ (do not click if you have security clearance) . The Podesta email leaks were similarly embarrassing for the Democratic party. https://www.politico.com/live-blog-updates/2016/10/john-podesta-hillary-clinton-emails-wikileaks-000011 . The Ashley Madison leaks ruined the marriages o many politicians but more importantly compromised their security. Sarah Palin had a bunch of personal information leaked in 2008. Macron in 2017 had an email leak. Donald Trump's linked in password was compromised in a large breach and a security researcher used it to crack his twitter password. A few years later Trump's passwords were so weak they were easily compromised again by the exact same security researcher. His twitter password for those curious was "yourefired" and a compromise where somebody acted as president and announced something like "nukes in air heading to north korea now" could have some crazy impacts.

Needless to say, you need email security so your political career is not ruined, so you do not compromise national security when elected to public office and also so you don't embarrass your political party. Here is a guide for all future politicians on how to secure your passwords. It doesn't cover 2 factor authentication which is recommended along with this advice, but it does cover how to have maximum password security without crossing into territory where doing so makes it overly inconvenient. https://youtu.be/85Q0HnKHCzo?si=Ui15bFxP09O1hei7