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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.

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  1. I don't own a cell phone by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    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.

  2. Re: Ask Ash-Fox about his NDA lie by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Nobody gives a toss, apk. Take your meds and stop your multicolored spamming.

  3. Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

    1. Re:Read TFA by 93+Escort+Wagon · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Military dude has two phones: personal and official.

      If this happened in December, he did not have an official phone at that time.

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  4. Re:Slashdot used to have breaking news by Captain+Splendid · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Slashdot used to have breaking news

    Gonna need a source on that. That's never ever been this site's forte.

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  5. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    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).

  6. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Insightful

    Trump is just trolling us all. We need to dump him in the next election or sooner

  7. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by PopeRatzo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    "A White House spokesman said..."

    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.

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