White House Chief of Staff's Phone Was Reportedly Hacked Months Ago (reuters.com)

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White House Chief of Staff's Phone Was Reportedly Hacked Months Ago (reuters.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Friday October 6, 2017 @01:00PM from the remote-access dept.

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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Welcome to the nonstop shit-show known as Trump by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 13:06 · Score: 0, Troll

what a fucking moron
1. Re:Welcome to the nonstop shit-show known as Trump by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 13:14 · Score: 0, Troll
  
  the only shit-show here is your stupid mother.
2. Re:Welcome to the nonstop shit-show known as Trump by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 14:00 · Score: -1
  
  Says the shit for brains trump voter.
3. Re:Welcome to the nonstop shit-show known as Trump by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 18:58 · Score: 0
  
  If this is all it takes to trigger your "THE COUNTRY IS FUCKED!" response, you might be the one with the problem, not Trump.
  (Luckily though, Trump Derangement Syndrome can be treated! Ask your doctor if once-daily Cyanide is right for you.)
4. Re:Welcome to the nonstop shit-show known as Trump by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 05:14 · Score: 0
  
  how do you figure this doesn't warrant such a response. nobody in the white house should be walking around with off the shelf consumer shitware. if the nsa and fellow scum were doing their jobs the whole country would be using hardened linux phones. instead we have this embarrassing situation. it's "love it or leave it" morons like you who let them do it.
I don't own a cell phone by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 13:07 · 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.
1. Re:I don't own a cell phone by PolygamousRanchKid+ · 2017-10-06 13:30 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  So I can't be hacked through my cell phone.
  One day, you will wake up in your bathtub full of ice cubes, with your liver and kidneys missing, and replaced by cell phones.
  Consider yourself "hacked" . . . kinda sorta literally, actually.
  
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2. Re:I don't own a cell phone by 140Mandak262Jamuna · 2017-10-06 14:36 · Score: 2
  
  Remember people evil enough to steal kidneys of unsuspecting strangers will take only one kidney not both and be kind enough to leave you in ice with a phone nearby and instructions to call 911. Such kind evil people you have never met before.
  
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3. Re:I don't own a cell phone by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 14:50 · Score: 0
  
  That's fascinating! Please tell us more!
4. Re: I don't own a cell phone by dougdonovan · 2017-10-06 15:29 · Score: 1
  
  come on donald. you "have" to think IT security.
5. Re: I don't own a cell phone by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 18:18 · Score: 0
  
  You must be great at parties! Nobody needs you Iâ(TM)m sure, get back in your basement!
6. Re:I don't own a cell phone by yuriklastalov · 2017-10-06 20:43 · Score: 1
  
  Ah, but it's the little things that keep the armor plating of Rationalization in place.
  "We're not bad guys, we like, totally left him with the ability to get help!"
7. Re:I don't own a cell phone by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 22:15 · Score: 0
  
  Don't worry, the Real World will go on without you.
8. Re:I don't own a cell phone by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 04:39 · Score: 0
  
  I'm guessing you don't respond because there's nothing to respond to.
9. Re: I don't own a cell phone by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 05:34 · Score: 0
  
  I don't use a cell phone either!
  Sent from my iPhone.
10. Re:I don't own a cell phone by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 05:46 · Score: 0
  
  /r/iamverysmart would love a word with you
11. Re:I don't own a cell phone by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-08 23:05 · Score: 0
  
  I do own a cellphone, a Blackberry Curve, and haven't been hacked yet either.
Ask Ash-Fox about his NDA lie by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 13:27 · Score: -1

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/
1. Re: Ask Ash-Fox about his NDA lie by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 13:38 · Score: 0, Insightful
  
  Nobody gives a toss, apk. Take your meds and stop your multicolored spamming.
2. Re: Ask Ash-Fox about his NDA lie by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 13:53 · Score: 0
  
  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.
3. Re: Ask Ash-Fox about his NDA lie by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 14:14 · Score: 0
  
  Ash-fox is not here, apk, same as you should be.
  Have you fixed that error in line 245 of your hosts file yet?
4. Re: Ask Ash-Fox about his NDA lie by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 15:35 · Score: -1
  
  Did you fix your tighty-whities after getting your salad tossed, AssFux? Hohohohohohohohohohoho https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11203125&cid=55325627/
5. Re: Ask Ash-Fox about his NDA lie by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 21:32 · Score: 0
  
  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?
6. Re: Ask Ash-Fox about his NDA lie by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 03:40 · Score: 0
  
  An unidentifiable ac 'SiDeWaLk-ShRiNk of /.' w/ "delusions of grandeur" @ being a psychiatric pro & unable to do better yourself hahahaha!
7. Re: Ask Ash-Fox about his NDA lie by Brockmire · 2017-10-07 09:44 · Score: 1
  
  Alternating case in words is number 4 sign of being psychotic.
If this isn't a crime, it should be by chromaexcursion · 2017-10-06 13:29 · Score: 0

What a MORON!
What was he thinking!

Time for a congressional investigation.
1. Re:If this isn't a crime, it should be by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 13:35 · Score: 1
  
  What a MORON!
  What was he thinking!
  Time for a congressional investigation.
  He wasn't thinking. Yes it should be a crime, especially for someone with DHS background. What scares me is it means there are a lot more morons like him. The quickest way to mobilize and empower the morons is, unfortunately, a congressional investigation. Most of congress are morons.
2. Re:If this isn't a crime, it should be by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 13:46 · Score: 2
  
  So not just committing a hack is illegal, but getting hacked is illegal and the victim should be prosecuted? Yikes!
  Anyway... personal phone hacked... government business conducted on government issued phone (as far as we know) which is secure insomuch as possible (as far as we know)... yawn. Re-post the story when it is found that he was conducting government business via his personal phone and then I'll be interested.
3. Re:If this isn't a crime, it should be by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 15:02 · Score: 0
  
  As far as you know.
  Given the cheerful predilection of all politicians of every stripe to use their personal gear instead of the government gear I think it's pretty much a reasonable suspicion that government business was on his personal phone.
  And yes - When you know or should know based upon your position that you should failing to secure your data is indeed a crime. See 'classification'.
  AC
4. Re:If this isn't a crime, it should be by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 16:08 · Score: 1
  
  His phone - that device with a microphone and camera that he has with him wherever he goes (other than possibly while he is actually in the White House) - was hacked - possibly fully owned. It has to be assumed that every conversation he had in the presence of his phone was compromised. These people talk secret stuff all over the place.
  But, the even bigger issue is that they could easily have picked up personal details that could be used in blackmail. You now have no clue whether he is still compromised even with the phone removed from the equation.
5. Re:If this isn't a crime, it should be by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 20:13 · Score: 1
  
  Not a lot to see or hear in the box they put them in when the enter the building.
  Of course, I wonder how long they trolled the listeners after they discovered it...
Slashdot used to have breaking news by RhettLivingston · 2017-10-06 13:37 · Score: -1

This is over 24 hours old. Why now?
I originally started using Slashdot because it was the fastest site at picking up the scattered tech news and concentrating it in one place - a one stop index to the nearly up to the moment breaking news. Now...
I think this is due to more than the loss of subscribers. The system has changed and doesn't support quick promotion of articles.
1. Re:Slashdot used to have breaking news by Captain+Splendid · 2017-10-06 13:39 · 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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2. Re:Slashdot used to have breaking news by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 21:14 · Score: 0
  
  Slashdot has breaking news like CNN has breaking news -- SOmebody else's news, and it was breaking LONG AGO!
3. Re:Slashdot used to have breaking news by mspohr · 2017-10-07 00:27 · Score: 1
  
  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.
  
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4. Re:Slashdot used to have breaking news by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 01:44 · Score: 0
  
  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.
5. Re:Slashdot used to have breaking news by Paradise+Pete · 2017-10-07 02:47 · Score: 1
  
  Slashdot because it was the fastest site at picking up the scattered tech news and concentrating it in one place
  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.
6. Re:Slashdot used to have breaking news by RhettLivingston · 2017-10-07 11:06 · Score: 1
  
  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.
Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 13:38 · 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 Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 13:48 · Score: 1
  
  People at this level are routinely asked to give up their personal phones and use secure ones. It is simply too much to ask a person to never forget which phone they are on and not even hint at something confidential in a conversation. Ignorance of having committed a crime is not an excuse. Intent is almost irrelevant today.
  For that matter, this man's location alone should be confidential. He doesn't have to say a word to be giving confidential information. A hack of a smartphone could be used for many purposes. Heck, you don't even have to hack it. Just having it on your person makes it useful as a convenient homing beacon for a weapon or as the activation signal for a proximity switch.
2. Re:Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 14:12 · Score: 0
  
  Somehow I think you are more forgiving of Mrs. Clinton, right? Also, that is some stupid shitty advice right there. Keep comms separate and don't mix is the best advice to keep the secure phone secure.
3. Re:Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 14:12 · Score: -1
  
  You're making adult-sized excuses for incompetence.
4. Re:Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 14:52 · Score: 0
  
  you are a retard
5. Re:Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 14:54 · Score: 0
  
  The cat always comes out of the bag, doesn't it ?
  Here we have it folks, another fucking Trump apologist.
  You can claim all you want that all politicians are dirty pieces of shit. But Trump has been a dirty piece of shit for at least 40 years. He's only been president for nine months. What's his excuse for the other 39 years and 3 months ?
6. Re:Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 14:54 · Score: 0
  
  No I'm not. I had a government issued iPhone. I had a personal Android. I never got them confused. I had access to Medicare data on the personal phone. I never sent any government, professional data to myself. Government officials are only asked to use their government phones for government work. Obama had to give up his iPhone for a Blackberry to use it as a presidential phone.
7. Re: Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 15:07 · Score: 0
  
  Whatever else is wrong with Trump, we can be pretty sure he didn't vote for Hillary, the traitor.
  You voted for a traitor. How's that feel?
8. Re:Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 15:35 · Score: 0
  
  I don't see where you think the poster would think differently of an email server, but now that you mention it, there is a big difference in possibly being able to listen in to every conversation Mr. Kelly had and knowing his exact location while his phone was on his person and the very limited, though still certainly important, information on an email server.
  No high-level government official should ever carry a non-government phone on their person unless it has been vetted as secure (certain non-government phones are likely more secure than the government ones). The cost of a compromised phone goes far beyond the email it was used to create.
  Also, the problem with prosecuting Hillary for her crime is that you then need to prosecute many thousands of people who have had top secret clearance and made the same mistake. It couldn't be said publicly but I'm sure virtually everyone on the FBI teams investigating was thinking about the number of times they had made the same or very similar mistakes.
  In addition, I've not read any indication that anyone is calling for the prosecution of Mr. Kelly. He made a stupid mistake and I'd bet he has a ton of company in doing so. You can't require government employees to be inhuman. They aren't exactly the cream of the crop.
9. Re:Read TFA by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2017-10-06 15:46 · 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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10. Re:Read TFA by burtosis · 2017-10-06 16:08 · Score: 1
  
  So when they turn on the microphone they somehow automagically can't hear at least his half of the conversations on the hardened phone, or all sides of in person meetings? I mean WTF they are just now banning personal phones in the west wing??!? Explain to me how he isn't a moron when you can't walk into half the companies in the US with one, but what the hell, why not have them in national security meetings.
11. Re:Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 17:18 · Score: 0
  
  he did not have an official phone at that time
  He didn't need one. He wasn't an official. He left his military post in November, and didn't join the Trump administration until January.
12. Re:Read TFA by Jzanu · 2017-10-06 17:35 · Score: 2
  
  You don't matter though. Nothing you did ever mattered. Kelly is the most important person in the world right now - he is preventing the nuclear apocalypse from happening. A hostile foreign power knowing Kelly's precise (target-able) location from any source is a critical security risk, and lest you forget that you are carrying around your own personal audio and video surveillance feeds, remember that all of his are classified at minimum. Trump could disappear and it would be less important than ensuring Kelly's command remains as it is all that we have for child-safety locks on that nuclear football.
13. Re: Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 18:08 · Score: 0
  
  Thanks for that insight, Ivan.
14. Re: Read TFA by Reverend+Green · 2017-10-06 18:12 · Score: 1
  
  You worry far too much, Comrade Wang.
15. Re: Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 18:27 · Score: 0
  
  Whatever else is wrong with Trump, we can be pretty sure he didn't vote for Hillary, the traitor.
  You voted for a traitor. How's that feel?
  Half a billion dollars have been spent investigating hillary, and what do the rethuglicans have? Nothing!
  If she's a traitor, then she's the most brilliant fucking traitor in history--oh wait, she's fucking idiot because the lost.
  That leaves the rethuglican inquisition being either liars about her activities, or just fucking stupid.
16. Re: Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 18:59 · Score: 0
  
  Do I detect the old "blame it on the other guy when it's really us" ploy?
  Very weak Reverend, and as a man of the cloth you should be ashamed to be spreading falsehoods. What church are you with, Russian Orthodox?
17. Re:Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 20:06 · Score: 0
  
  Actually it's more than two for work. Don't know how many personal phones he might have.
18. Re: Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 20:35 · Score: 0
  
  Even though Google is attempting to censor searching for Clinton's scandals they are still visible on other search engines. Perhaps you might want to give them a try.
  Benghazi: Four Americans killed, an entire system of weak diplomatic security uncloaked, and the credibility of a president and his secretary of state damaged.
  Asia fundraising scandal: More than four dozen convicted in a scandal that made the Lincoln bedroom, White House donor coffees and Buddhist monks infamous.
  Hillary’s private emails: Hundreds of national secrets already leaked through private email.
  Whitewater: A large S&L failed and several people went to prison.
  Travelgate: The firing of the career travel office was the very first crony capitalism scandal of the Clinton era.
  Humagate: An aide’s sweetheart job arrangement.
  Pardongate: The first time donations were ever connected as possible motives for presidential pardons.
  Foundation favors: Revealing evidence that the Clinton Foundation was a pay-to-play back door to the State Department, and an open checkbook for foreigners to curry favor.
  Mysterious files: The disappearance and re-discovery of Hillary’s Rose Law Firm records.
  Filegate: The Clinton use of FBI files to dig for dirt on their enemies.
  Hubble trouble: The resignation and imprisonment of Hillary law partner Web Hubbell.
  The Clinton’s Swedish slush fund: $26 million collected overseas with little accountability and lots of questions about whether contributors got a pass on Iran sanctions.
  Gennifer Flowers: The tale that catapulted a supermarket tabloid into the big time.
  Bill and Hillary's Golden Tongue: His and her speech fees shocked the American public.
  Boeing Bucks: Boeing contributed big-time to Bill; Hillary helped the company obtain a profitable Russian contract.
  Larry Lawrence: How did a fat cat donor get buried in Arlington National Cemetery without war experience?
  The cattle futures: Hillary as commodity trader extraordinaire.
  Watergate: Committee chairman stated that if he had the power to fire her he would have. “She was a liar. She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of confidentiality.”
  Juanita Broaddrick: Another woman attacked and threatened by Hillary who brought rape allegations against Bill Clinton.
  Paula Jones: Yet another woman attacked and threatened by Hillary who brought rape allegations against Bill Clinton.
  Here We have problems with a long list of scandals and concern for self interests and self preservation. Politicians are supposed to be there for the people, and both of the Clinton's have left a legacy of doing the exact opposite. Their vast fortune gathered while she held public office and encyclopedic list of legal troubles should tell you all you need to know.
  Now, I guess I could be lying, or just fucking stupid. But you'll never know seeing as you haven't yet learned to use the Internet.
19. Re: Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 20:36 · Score: 0
  
  Sure Mr Lockheed, we Know you and your fellow warmongers would have preferred your Agent Clinton.
20. Re: Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 20:39 · Score: 0
  
  Thoudands of FBI workers have operated private E-Mail Servers ? Sure, apologist.
21. Re:Read TFA by yuriklastalov · 2017-10-06 20:45 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  You can pry my Trump Derangement Syndrome from my cold, dead hands.
22. Re: Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 20:48 · Score: 0
  
  How much is being "invested" into the Mueller witch hunt? How much money have they dumped into Pissgate? Fucking hell, leftists have always been pretty retarded, but ya'll are just deranged.
23. Re: Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 21:09 · Score: 0
  
  "she's fucking idiot"
  Isn't it bedtime there, Ivan?
24. Re: Read TFA by Ron+Goodman · 2017-10-06 23:06 · Score: 1
  
  You forgot the 67 people she killed with her bare hands. Idiot!
25. Re:Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 23:51 · Score: 0
  
  by "hardend phone" you just mean "the latest and greatest" phone that hasn't been subjected to the endless "let's help the landfill fill up faster" forced deprecation cycle, yes?
  one wonders, how much trouble it is for tom, dick and harry to get a clubberment job just to get their hands on a "hardend phone".
  at least, when the clubberment should run out of willing interns, just advertise a new phone, called the "iPhone diamond": only issued to people working for the clubberment. 90% will be wanting to work for the clubberment ...
26. Re: Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 02:52 · Score: 0
  
  He can share a cell with Clinton if need be, but Trump's got to go. Right now he's more dangerous to his own country than any person who has ever lived.
27. Re: Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 05:29 · Score: 0
  
  First: I voted for neither Trump nor Hilary. Surprised ? I bet you are. Simple minds cannot grasp concepts more complex than binary thinking.
  Second: Funny you declare Hillary to be a traitor, despite the fact that an obcene amount of time, resources and money was spent investigating her, and yet nothing has come out of it. But then, when Trump was accused of all these horrible things during the campain, you trumpists demanded absolute unquestionnable proof. I've got news for you: Had you received such proof, you would have denied everything anyway. For the same reason some of you republitards believe that 9/11 was an inside job, or that climate change is a global conspiracy by the evil and powerfull scientists conglomerate, or that the holocaust is a hoaks, or that the moon landings were filmed in a hollywood studio, or that the fucking earth is flat.
  'nuff said.
28. Re: Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 05:35 · Score: 0
  
  "ya'll" fucking deep south rednecks all believe that the earth is just 6000 years old. Why would any sane, educated, civilized human being care about anything any of you inbread morons think anyway ?
29. Re: Read TFA by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 06:08 · Score: 0
  
  Haha! This is like #RoastMe. Do Trump next! Oh wait, you don't have to. All of his dirty laundry is public record thanks to decades of civil lawsuits filed against him. No speculation required.
  One thing puzzles me... Why in the fuck would you support the GOP if they've done absolutely nothing in their power to punish her for this long list of dastardly deeds that keeps you awake at night? She's survived a number of GOP controlled governments and it's never gone beyond finger pointing and monocle dropping... It's almost as if, now hear me out on this, the Republicans and Democrats are cut from the same shitty cloth.
  Lock her up? Bitch, please. Donald Trump and the Republican Party couldn't even remember her fucking name by the end of November, but it was good enough to fool the minority of voters and in America, #2 can be #1!
30. Re: Read TFA by Brockmire · 2017-10-07 09:53 · Score: 1
  
  Because they vote.
Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 13:40 · Score: -1, Troll

"A White House spokesman said Kelly hadn’t used the personal phone often since joining the administration. This official said Kelly relied on his government-issued phone for official communications."
As usual, the left wing will jump to any conclusion in their Trump derangement syndrome. Leftism is a sickness, but it can be cured.
1. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 13:56 · 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).
2. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 14:19 · Score: 0, Insightful
  
  Trump is just trolling us all. We need to dump him in the next election or sooner
3. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by PopeRatzo · 2017-10-06 14:38 · 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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4. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by hey! · 2017-10-06 14:40 · Score: 2
  
  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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5. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 14:58 · Score: 0
  
  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.
6. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 15:03 · Score: 0
  
  I will dump into your stupid piehole
7. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 15:09 · Score: 0
  
  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.
8. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 15:12 · Score: 0
  
  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.
9. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 15:15 · Score: -1
  
  The only people who think leftism is a sickness are the brainwashed anti-intellectuals who think religion has the highest authority on this planet.
  Its funny that they don't think the fucked up country has a mental health issue, but anybody who disagrees with them (or in most cases just someone who is smarter than a 10 year old) is mentally ill.
  The fuckers on the right (read- the people on the right who are fucked, not the right) are literally more brainwashed than NK citizens. I have no doubt in my mind that the NK citizens know that everything said is BS. The under-educated, religiously guided, bigoted, hateful mass that think all the problems are caused by the left are the most fucked up people, the are EXACTLY like the Muslim extremists they hate so much. Do not think for a second that if they thought they would get away with doing what ISIS do, they wouldn't do it. You want proof?
  Look up the count of domestic terrost cases, what side of the politic spectrum are the vast majority, if not all, on? The people who say 'its a false-flag, its the left really'. You just proved my fucking point. Too fucking stupid due to the education system being fucked up, by the right*, which makes it more difficult for the religiously guided to learn proper, well needed critical thinking and logic skills.
  *Why? Because the fucked up right, again the fucked up people on the right, not the right, know that they will not be able to hold power with an educated mass. Their wants and motivations can not mix well with people who can think for themselves.
  Honestly the whole country is a big ass mess of propaganda and civilian control. The whole planet would be better off without them, since a vast vast vast majority of the worlds problems are caused, either directly or indirectly, by the actions of them.
  The people are lovely, the landscapes are gorgeous. Geo-politically though, the most destructive, self-serving, arrogant, over-reaching cunts on the planet.
  Haha that was a bit of a tangent. I somewhat apologize .
10. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 15:16 · Score: 0
  
  Fake news. This is the most honest and transparent administration in history.
11. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 15:25 · Score: 0
  
  I kept my doctor.
12. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 15:51 · Score: 0
  
  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.
13. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by cold+fjord · 2017-10-06 15:56 · Score: 0
  
  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.
  
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14. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 16:04 · Score: 0
  
  You sure showed that libtard there, Literal Joe. Top. Fucking. Keks.
15. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by PopeRatzo · 2017-10-06 17:07 · Score: 2, Informative
  
  The President will be flying to Puerto Rico tomorrow to view the devastation, ...
  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.
  
  TRUMP: Thank you very much. I don't have to mention the Marines. Where is Gen. Kelly? Boy, is he watching. Gen. Kelly is a four-star. Not a bad general. You don't get any better than Gen. Kelly. On behalf of the Marines, they have done some job, general. Can we also mention Army and can we also mention some people that I really got to know and respect even more in Texas, and that's the Coast Guard. What a job the Coast Guard has done throughout this thing. What a job the Coast Guard has done throughout this whole — [inaudible] They would go right into the middle of it. I want to thank the Coast Guard.
  They are special people. A lot of people got to see the real Coast Guard in this trouble. In Texas was incredible for what they did. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. We would like to say something on behalf of your men and women.
  UNIDENTIFIED: I'm representing the Air Force.
  TRUMP: I know that.
  
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16. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 17:19 · Score: 0
  
  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
17. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 17:35 · Score: 0
  
  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.
18. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 17:56 · Score: 0
  
  That also wasnt in the past 8 months, so you didnt answer the question
19. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 18:14 · Score: 0
  
  You sound sour, twinkle toes.
20. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Reverend+Green · 2017-10-06 18:16 · Score: 0
  
  Just curious - do you dream about Trump? Maybe you should send him a love poem.
21. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 18:21 · Score: 0
  
  Dude, lay off the meth.
22. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by PopeRatzo · 2017-10-06 18:31 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Just curious - do you dream about Trump? Maybe you should send him a love poem.
  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.
  
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23. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Reverend+Green · 2017-10-06 18:39 · Score: 0
  
  Oh, is it really Soros after all? I was betting on the Chinese... they have deep pockets, and they understand propaganda.
24. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Gryle · 2017-10-06 18:53 · Score: 1
  
  Damn! Where are my mod-points when I need them? Any chance I can get compensation for my now coffee-soaked keyboard?
  
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25. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 19:21 · Score: 0
  
  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:
  
  Q Thank you, Sarah. Given what the President said about Secretary of State Tillerson's outreach to North Korea over the weekend, does the President still have confidence in him as Secretary of State?
  MS. SANDERS: He does, yes.
  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
26. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 20:15 · Score: 0
  
  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.
27. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 20:44 · Score: 0
  
  The bush-lockheed "WMD" government IS now gone for Seevetal years now.
28. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 20:48 · Score: 0
  
  Communists and Mohammedists consider lying for their causes to be morally OK.
29. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 20:53 · Score: 0
  
  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!
30. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 20:58 · Score: 0
  
  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.
31. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 21:12 · Score: 0
  
  Meltdowns like yours are why I proudly voted for Trump. This shit is solid gold!
32. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 21:14 · Score: -1
  
  Okay, but the cat 5 thing and the wind speed thing are forgivable, and I would certainly excuse those statements if any other president made them. These are misstatements that are easily attributable to mistaken information. The man is awful, I acknowledge, but we shouldn't nitpick him. We have plenty of reasons to say he is shitty, including his lack of response to Puerto Rico. There's little reason to complain about his stupid rhetoric in this case.
33. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 21:19 · Score: 0
  
  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.
34. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 21:30 · Score: 0
  
  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
35. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Tenebrousedge · 2017-10-07 00:09 · Score: 1
  
  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.
  
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36. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 00:44 · Score: 0
  
  Can you see it on RADAR? Not so much.
37. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by 93+Escort+Wagon · 2017-10-07 01:59 · Score: 1
  
  The plural of "anonymous anecdote" is... more than one anonymous anecdote.
  
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38. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by cold+fjord · 2017-10-07 03:57 · Score: 1
  
  The President will be flying to Puerto Rico tomorrow to view the devastation, ...
  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?
  
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39. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 04:42 · Score: 0
  
  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.
40. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 05:25 · Score: 0
  
  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.
41. Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 05:48 · Score: 0
  
  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.
42. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by modmans2ndcoming · 2017-10-07 06:50 · Score: 1
  
  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.
43. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 16:00 · Score: 0
  
  Literal Joe
  Captcha: unaware
44. Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-08 05:04 · Score: 0
  
  oooh! You're so "woke" and everything!!
Politico broke this story by RhettLivingston · 2017-10-06 13:40 · Score: 0

Give them credit by using their link - John Kelly's personal cellphone was compromised, White House believes
1. Re:Politico broke this story by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 14:11 · Score: 0
  
  Can anyone confirm it was some crusty old Android phone?
2. Re:Politico broke this story by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-09 03:27 · Score: 0
  
  Nope it looks like is is a piece of shit apple phone; typical. The security of apple products is a lie.
  https://www.phonearena.com/news/No-updates-hackers-may-have-compromised-White-House-staff-chiefs-iPhone-camera-and-mic_id98735
These things didn't happen under Obama by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 13:42 · Score: 0

Just sad.
1. Re:These things didn't happen under Obama by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 13:43 · Score: 0
  
  "This may have happened as early as last December."
FiRsT by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 13:51 · Score: -1

prima donnas, and Whole has lost
Personal by bestweasel · 2017-10-06 14:08 · Score: 1

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).
20 great years by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 14:27 · Score: 0

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?
1. Re: 20 great years by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 19:21 · Score: 0
  
  Kind of ironic, don'tcha think?
Ask Ash-Fox about his NDA lie by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 15:41 · Score: 0

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/
Sounds legit... by burtosis · 2017-10-06 16:14 · Score: 1

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.
Dear 'Mr. Salad Chef' (lol) by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 16:37 · Score: -1

Did you fix your tighty-whities after getting your salad tossed, AssFux? Hohohohohohohohohohoho https://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=11203125&cid=55325627/
1. Re: Dear 'Mr. Salad Chef' (lol) by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 18:49 · Score: 0
  
  He's like a pervy Santa Claus.
2. Re: Dear 'Mr. Salad Chef' (lol) by Brockmire · 2017-10-07 09:42 · Score: 1
  
  That's redundant.
Funny, isn't it? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 19:04 · Score: 0

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...
1. Re:Funny, isn't it? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 00:18 · Score: 0
  
  Or maybe the only people it serves by trying to link this to Russia in advance of the evidence are those for whom anything Russia-related is a dog whistle for their distrust of the media. Which is to say, Trump and other liars.
It's bad by williamreview1 · 2017-10-06 19:15 · Score: -1

Security is always a thing to carefully consider https://williamreview.com/vids...

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YOUR smartphone is probably hacked too. by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 19:41 · Score: 0

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.
1. Re:YOUR smartphone is probably hacked too. by yuriklastalov · 2017-10-06 20:55 · Score: 0
  
  I hacked your mom with my turgid dongle.
You mean Trump's actual phone? by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 20:02 · Score: 0

The one she hands him and he tweets on...Please don't let there be nude photos on there.
Re: Welcome to the nonstop shit-show known as Trum by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 21:04 · Score: 0

I have to assume you're being satirical... Nobody is this fucking stupid, right?
These things weren't detected under Obama by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-06 23:48 · Score: 0

Fixed it for you.
Re: Welcome to the nonstop shit-show known as Trum by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 00:23 · Score: 0

If you think this is the only problem the Trump administration has had you havenâ(TM)t been paying attention.
Yes. It was iPhone by Anonymous Coward · 2017-10-07 03:53 · Score: 0

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.