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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.
I would think Cloakroom was the one thing being targeted, because the House or Representatives doesn't want anonymous leaks.
How would ransomware work on a country with a gazillion dollars in debt load? Could they give the debt to the ransomers?
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.
GPS tracking, for example, can be used to follow aides from one office to another, or from the floor to an office, making it more difficult to have some of the delicate negotiations often required to make a government work
The negotiations would be done without phones present anyway. If you are worried about it, hand your phone to another aide. Let them wander around like they are doing the regular things. Nobody will ever know that you were sitting somewhere else. Or just leave it in your desk. It'll be obvious you don't have your phone on you, but it won't point to anything in particular.
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How about banning DropBox. The CEO as openly stated they they index every file that crosses their servers.
Oh, now I see. Republicans won't ban DropBox because Condi Rice is on its Board of Directors.
My own (huge) institution has banned Dropbox entirely. Instead, a subscription to Box Sync was purchased for everyone. Box Sync encrypts before upload/sync, and then decrypts locally. They literally cannot peer into your files—This is by Design.
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.
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