> People who live by the maxim "don't put anything in writing that you wouldn't want people to see on the front page of the New York Times"
Almost nobody lives by that maxim; they might have a few decades ago, but the utility of low-latency, asynchronous, low-ambiguity communications channels now available, which inherently involved text or recorded content with the same vulnerability, is so high that people who might have lived by that maximizes when writing meant dead-tree memoranda and files no longer do.
But, even when it was more current, I suspect that was, as the saying goes, always observed more in the breach than anything else.
Emmanuel Macron's campaign was hacked as well, but did not unleash any extraordinary findings beyond gigabytes of boring meeting arrangements and schedule confirmations.
Either the attackers expended less effort on Macron HQ vs DNC and never got to the juicy stuff, or someone within Macron camp ran a tight ship on what can and cannot go through insecure channels.
Almost nobody lives by that maxim; they might have a few decades ago, but the utility of low-latency, asynchronous, low-ambiguity communications channels now available, which inherently involved text or recorded content with the same vulnerability, is so high that people who might have lived by that maximizes when writing meant dead-tree memoranda and files no longer do.
But, even when it was more current, I suspect that was, as the saying goes, always observed more in the breach than anything else.