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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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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).
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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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.
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.
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.
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
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...
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.
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?
The plural of "anonymous anecdote" is... more than one anonymous anecdote.
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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.
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
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.