The House of Representatives Is Blocking All Apps Using Google's Appspot.com (fastcompany.com)

New reader calewithac writes: In an attempt to stop ransomware attacks, the House's security team has banned all apps hosted on appspot.com from being used on its servers. This means that all appspot hosted apps are inaccessible inside Congress. According to Ted Henderson, the founder of the Cloakroom -- an anonymous messaging app for Capitol Hill staffers -- all of his apps are effectively not available to their target audience.

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Re:This sounds weird.

[Anonymous Coward]

They want leaks that they can control, not actual leaks.
Try and bring a camera phone into a gop fundraiser these days and see what that gets you

Perfection

[Anonymous Coward]

... banned all apps hosted ...

Tell me again how perfect the cloud is: I forget. When you give up security and archiving duties to someone else, some form of auditing is needed. Otherwise you're not getting the efficiency you paid for, and you don't have any way to detect that.

So you can't do random shit on a gov network?

[BitZtream]

Thats really all this is about? Fuck off

According to Ted Henderson, the founder of the Cloakroom -- an anonymous messaging app for Capitol Hill staffers -- all of his apps are effectively not available to their target audience.

Go fuck yourself Ted and Cloakroom. They can pull out their personal phone and visit your shitty site that no one cares about if they want to.

They can go home and send you posts.

What you're really pissed off about is that they can't easily leak shit to you, and you're crying about how they aren't paying their employees and resources to give you shit you want to then stab them in the back with.

You're a complete and total douche for whining about this.

I'm all for leaking anything illegal or just flat out 'wrong', but I don't expect the party I'm spying on to facilitate it nor to I expect them to make it easy on me.

You think its a good idea for secrets to just flip out to assholes like you and that everyone who 'leaks' shit is intelligent enough to leak the proper stuff and not actual secrets, or is smart enough to never be exploited by random public services that allow anyone and everyone to sign up without any useful chain back to the physical person.