If effective altruists’ messages are hacked, taken out of context, and publicly revealed, it could substantially and even permanently harm the movement. Consider the example of John Podesta, chair of Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. Many of his emails, including those that made Clinton and her campaign look bad, were obtained by hackers in a data breach and published in Wikileaks.
How likely is it that someone would target the EA movement by hacking messages and taking them out of context?
How likely is it that someone would target the EA movement by hacking messages and taking them out of context?
Seems almost certain to happen if more EAs run for public office
Pretty sure non-zero people have tried, my guess is the question is “how competent of an attacker and how much effort do they put into it”.