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White House Chief of Staff's Phone Was Reportedly Hacked Months Ago (reuters.com)
93 Escort Wagon writes: The personal cellphone belonging to Trump's Chief of Staff, John Kelly, may have been compromised, Reuters reports in a story originating from Politico. This may have happened as early as last December. The issue was discovered when Kelly submitted the phone to the White House's tech support crew during the summer, complaining that the phone would not update correctly.
what a fucking moron
So I can't be hacked through my cell phone.
If somebody really thinks they need to contact me, they can send me an e-mail and I might respond when I feel like it - or I might not, for any reason I chose.
What a MORON!
What was he thinking!
Time for a congressional investigation.
Nobody gives a toss, apk. Take your meds and stop your multicolored spamming.
Military dude has two phones: personal and official. Personal phone got hacked. Not hard. Dude does all his professional work on this official, hardened phone. No crime. Not inept. No real story. Everyone attacking him needs to read the story and act like adults.
Slashdot used to have breaking news
Gonna need a source on that. That's never ever been this site's forte.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
Give them credit by using their link - John Kelly's personal cellphone was compromised, White House believes
Just sad.
Untrue AssFux Ash-Fox. You care! Who can blame you after so many utter blunders and lies from you so go toss off or get your salad tossed. You obviously need that hahahaha.
Just like right wing jump up at any opportunity to prove left wing to be wrong...
Both sides are doing exactly the same thing with different situations, so both left and right-isms are both sicknesses. Sadly neither can be cured - it's human nature to resist opposing views (even if it's correct).
So he doesn't use the phone much but we don't know whether the hackers could listen in when he was carrying it - let's hope a proper analysis of it has been done. I wonder whose malware it was.
Did he ever use it for official business? The statement didn't categorically deny it. Fingers crossed he doesn't go in for mistresses, insider trading, rent boys, coke deals or any other compromising activities (or if he does, at least uses a burner phone).
Ash-fox is not here, apk, same as you should be.
Have you fixed that error in line 245 of your hosts file yet?
Trump is just trolling us all. We need to dump him in the next election or sooner
In the same week Whipsplash 'celebrates' the achievements of this great site, we get story after story of fake news.
Russia this, Russia that. Hack this, hack that.
Come on Whipslash. Are you a fucking moron?
Really? Shall we go down the list of other things "a White House spokesman said"?
1) President Trump has full confidence in James Comey
2) President Trump has full confidence in General Michael Flynn
2a) President Trump has full confidence in Sean Spicer
3) President Trump has full confidence in Reince Priebus
4) President Trump has full confidence in Steve Bannon
5) President Trump has full confidence in Secretary Tom Price
6) President Trump has never spoken to Russians
7) President Trump was not planning to build a hotel in Moscow
8) Frederick Douglass is doing a great job
9) President Trump is the only thing separating the United States from chaos (this one just today)
10) President Trump is not golfing, he's taking meetings (before the photos of him golfing leaked out)
Shall I go on?
You really want to come here and use something a "White House spokesman said" and pretend it is evidence of anything other than the opposite of the truth? Seriously. Before you quote a "White House spokesman" as evidence, maybe you should give us a date in the past eight months when a "White House spokesman" has not told a lie. Seriously. just one date - one - where there was not a lie from the White House, and I will rule your absurd claim as admissible.
You are welcome on my lawn.
What's amazing to me is how people - regardless of their political affiliation - always know exactly what happened in any situation from a brief news account.
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Trump has been trolling and basically screwing everyone for most of his miserable life. So to punish him for being the discusting human being that he is, the people of the united states first chose him as their presidential candidate, then elected him president.
You get the fucking president that you deserve.
I will dump into your stupid piehole
It could've been much worse. We could've elected Hillary but we dodged that bullet and next time she'll be too old to be a three time loser who has zero personal accomplishments.
If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.
Oh wait that wasn't from a spokesperson. It was from Obama's lying smiling face as he laughed at you for believing him.
That one lie is far more important to adults than the trivial list of crap you just posted that has zero impact on anyone's life.
Fake news. This is the most honest and transparent administration in history.
I kept my doctor.
AssFux tell us about your NDA lie and your dns fuckups apk tore you up on please hahahaha https://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11188265&cid=55322595/
Yes, please go on.
I'd like to hear more about Russia spending $50k on Facebook ads being an outrageous travesty of our electoral system. Meanwhile you ignore that the DNC literally RIGGED their primary, told the WaPo and Boston times what stories to run and when, how Clinton took over $100 million in BRIBES from Russia while secretary of state and so on.
Aren't you the bigot moron that told me that the DNC is correct in rigging their primary and the voters don't deserve to have a say in their primary?
Yes, please go on. I haven't had my fill of peak stupidity from you this week. You moron.
Before you quote a "White House spokesman" as evidence, maybe you should give us a date in the past eight months when a "White House spokesman" has not told a lie. Seriously. just one date - one - where there was not a lie from the White House, and I will rule your absurd claim as admissible
Done.
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, 10/2/2017, #18
The President will be flying to Puerto Rico tomorrow to view the devastation, ...
October 03, 2017, Remarks by President Trump, Luis Muñiz Air National Guard Base, Carolina, Puerto Rico
Here is a bonus! --- Yes, Frederick Douglass did a great job.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
You sure showed that libtard there, Literal Joe. Top. Fucking. Keks.
Can't walk into half the companies in America that have valuable IP with a cellphone, but what the hell lets just have personal cellphones in national security meetings. Let's hope they couldn't access the microphone or they could easily have picked up half the conversations on his secure phone as well as any interpersonal communications, and if they had gps data as well could track his every move. It's pretty likely we will never be told who hacked it, or how extensive it was.
Nope: Here are Trump comments from the same day.
1) He said "two hurricanes" hit Puerto Rico - FALSE
2) He said Maria was a "Category 5 hurricane" - FALSE
3) He said there were winds "over 200mph" - FALSE
And, he didn't get anywhere near the "devastation".
Oh, and he also didn't know the difference between the Coast Guard and the US Air Force.
You are welcome on my lawn.
In that same briefing, Sanders claimed that Chicago has the toughest gun laws in the country. It does not as a city nor does Illinois as a state.
Sorry, that entry for a White House spokesperson not lying on a given day has been rejected.
http://www.npr.org/2017/10/05/555580598/fact-check-is-chicago-proof-that-gun-laws-don-t-work
From the 3 October remarks, quoting The President:
And how do they do in fights with the F-35? They said, we do very well. You can't see it. Literally you can't see it. So it’s hard to fight a plane that you can't see, right?
Technically you can see the F-35 (at least I can) so I'm going to have to rule the 3 October remarks as containing at least one lie.
That also wasnt in the past 8 months, so you didnt answer the question
You sound sour, twinkle toes.
Just curious - do you dream about Trump? Maybe you should send him a love poem.
Dude, lay off the meth.
Listen, I'm contractually obligated to post between 5 and 10 "Look at what an idiot Trump is" Slashdot comments per day or I don't get my check from George Soros. A brother has to make a living, you know?
On the plus side, it's the easiest money I've ever made.
You are welcome on my lawn.
Oh, is it really Soros after all? I was betting on the Chinese... they have deep pockets, and they understand propaganda.
He's like a pervy Santa Claus.
Damn! Where are my mod-points when I need them? Any chance I can get compensation for my now coffee-soaked keyboard?
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not entirely sure about the universe - Einstein
A government official gets hacked and neither Politico nor Reuters mention Russia once in either of their articles, while not a single incident of misfortune befalling a democrat can pass without it being implicitly blamed on Russians (or racism).
It's almost like there's some sort of narrative being pushed and this story doesn't fit...
It almost seems that you were attempting to find a day that somebody at the Whitehouse said something that was not a lie, rather than a day that nobody at the Whitehouse said any lies.
And quite honestly, I'm pretty sure that your first link has a lie right here:
And considering that I've already heard rumors about Tillerson's replacement (and a "suicide pact" between him, Mnuchin, and Mattis to prevent him from being fired), I think time will tell that indeed the President's spokesperson was telling yet another lie.
dom
YOUR smartphone is probably hacked too.
This isn't really a story is it?
As soon as you load any 3rd party app on a phone, that can be a hack.
* games
* banking app
* backup software
* A/V software
All of these can easily contain a rootkit to do things you don't know.
Everyone is likely hacked. They just don't have an IT department to get the facts.
The one she hands him and he tweets on...Please don't let there be nude photos on there.
Lost it at "I know that", a favourite retort of comic bumbling incompetents in a futile attempt to hide their idiocies.
Unfortunately Trump has somehow found a way through the fourth wall and is now let loose upon the world with the keys to the gun room and that's not funny.
The bush-lockheed "WMD" government IS now gone for Seevetal years now.
Communists and Mohammedists consider lying for their causes to be morally OK.
But he hasn't even denied that the welfare system has been the most successful racist system in American history since the end of slavery! Those Democrats really figured out how to stick it to the niiggers this time!
The f35 pork Bomber IS a big fat ugly pig which cannot maneuver, cannot climb.
Cued by ground Based Long Wave Radar, an Su 27 will engage it visually for a quick shootdown.
I have to assume you're being satirical... Nobody is this fucking stupid, right?
Meltdowns like yours are why I proudly voted for Trump. This shit is solid gold!
Slashdot has breaking news like CNN has breaking news -- SOmebody else's news, and it was breaking LONG AGO!
My entire company did not. Our insurance was deemed illegal and we had to buy a new one. It was three times as expensive, covered less, with a 400% higher deductible.
Fuck Obama, and fuck you.
I'm a free-thinking atheist who is pro choice, pro socialized healthcare, believes in global warming, etc.
Leftists are mentally ill. They behave exactly like cult members, including the fanatical violence and personal isolation tactics.
You are incapable of seeing this, because you are a brainwashed fanatic (read: mentally ill). You're too busy foaming at the mouth ranting about your team versus the other team to critically analyze anything.
It's not about facts or improving our quality of life for you. It's an obsession with winning your little political narratives.
"The science is settled."
- You, when it suits you. 2017
We can make an argument how broken is public health care in the US by using APK as a case. How no one cares about his mental state well being. Wander around in the Internet with gibberish, out of context comments, spamming about his mediocre apps which any high schooler computer club member won't have any problem to create. Why is APK not institutionalized, to be treated properly?
Fixed it for you.
Meanwhile you ignore that the DNC literally RIGGED their primary, told the WaPo and Boston times what stories to run and when, how Clinton took over $100 million in BRIBES from Russia while secretary of state and so on.
Well, no, those would be lies from Breitbart.
Those who advocate genocide deserve every protection afforded by law, and none afforded by common human decency.
If you think this is the only problem the Trump administration has had you havenâ(TM)t been paying attention.
I don't expect breaking news from Slashdot but I do expect to get a more in-depth discussion than mainstream media (hopefully from a technical perspective).
Unfortunately, this discussion (like most others here) has focused on political name calling. It's worthless.
I don't know why I bother to read this drivel.
I don't read your sig. Why are you reading mine?
Can you see it on RADAR? Not so much.
Correct.
We've even been chided for reporting current or late news. Breaking news, (with few verified facts and chock full o' rumor), is never our style.
As it should be.
The plural of "anonymous anecdote" is... more than one anonymous anecdote.
#DeleteChrome
I don't think that's ever been quite the case. But what it used it be was a great source for top-notch commentary on the subject at hand. Unbelievable really.
An unidentifiable ac 'SiDeWaLk-ShRiNk of /.' w/ "delusions of grandeur" @ being a psychiatric pro & unable to do better yourself hahahaha!
When news article does not mention what is the brand of the 'cell phone' that was hacked, one can immediately assume it was iphone.
And yes. It was.
Nope: Here are Trump comments from the same day.
1) He said "two hurricanes" hit Puerto Rico - FALSE
2) He said Maria was a "Category 5 hurricane" - FALSE
3) He said there were winds "over 200mph" - FALSE
1) Irma & Maria - True, even if that is not quite what Trump said.
2) Maria was CAT 5 when it hit the Virgin Islands, Dominica, Cuba, and some other locations. It had slightly slower winds when it hit Puerto Rico. It is reasonable to refer to Maria as CAT 5 as the New York Times did. Rate this as true too.
3) Where in that link did he state the wind speed? I didn't see it. Even if he did are you claiming there were no wind gusts that fast? How would you know? Almost all of the wind gages in Puerto Rico were destroyed (by "gentle winds"?).
I'll rate this as a fabrication by you.
And, he didn't get anywhere near the "devastation".
Yes he did, both on foot, and by helicopter.
Soros's payroll?l? Is it "funny" because it's true?
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
I know, right? The fool goes and posts "links" to support his position! Hahaha doesn't he know we can just ignore those and call him names, thereby completely rebutting his entire supposed "post"? hahahaha libtard. So stupid.
It's like mommy and daddy are fighting and I don't know what to do.
Both sides are fake newsing each other so hard even PopeRatzo and cold fjord are caught in it. 2017 sucks so bad I almost want 2016 back. Almost.
i love this kind of idiot response.
hmm... my TrumpDaddy is a corrupt piece of white shit, but rather than admit it, i'll just say something about Obama and maybe everyone will forget.
nice try you whimpering Basic Bitch.
So, no...they didn't do any rigging. That was BS from known Russian lies, Breitbart, and Alex Jones. Bernie Bros were p0wned by the right and Russia.
That's redundant.
Alternating case in words is number 4 sign of being psychotic.
I guess my impressions were formed further back than most (this is not my original account). In the 1998-2002 realm (Google News came out in 2002 and helped a lot when combined with the right searches) the only other way I had to find good geek news was to visit a whole bunch of sites that were mostly not technical. Slashdot usually had tech news up within 12 hours or so and often in less than 6. But, perhaps more importantly, it had tech news that didn't come from mainstream sources and, in that day, never would.
Of course, my impression might be more because there were no tech sites like phys.org, arstechnica, etc. that now serve to deliver tech news. I don't even remember EE Times being online yet. I think I was still getting the paper version.
Literal Joe
Captcha: unaware
oooh! You're so "woke" and everything!!