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White House Weighs Personal Mobile Phone Ban For Staff (bloomberg.com)
The White House is considering banning its employees from using personal mobile phones while at work. While President Trump has been vocal about press leaks since taking office, one official said the potential change is driven by cybersecurity concerns. Bloomberg reports: One official said that there are too many devices connected to the campus wireless network and that personal phones aren't as secure as those issued by the federal government. White House Chief of Staff John Kelly -- whose personal phone was found to be compromised by hackers earlier this year -- is leading the push for a ban, another official said. The White House already takes precautions with personal wireless devices, including by requiring officials to leave phones in cubbies outside of meeting rooms where sensitive or classified information is discussed. Top officials haven't yet decided whether or when to impose the ban, and if it would apply to all staff in the executive office of the president. While some lower-level officials support a ban, others worry it could result in a series of disruptive unintended consequences.
You're not allowed to bring your phone into a SCIF. Why in the hell should you be allowed to bring your personal device into the damn White House? Make the Executive Office of the President follow those same rules too.
Rather than banning phones how about mandating an official Trump admin phone, like the Dethklok's Dethphone
http://dethklok.wikia.com/wiki...
It'd be pretty brütal
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"The White House already takes precautions with personal wireless devices, including by requiring officials to leave phones in cubbies outside of meeting rooms where sensitive or classified information is discussed."
A year in, they're finally following the most basic rules for handling classified information. Next year they can tackle blurting out source level hum-int to top level officials of hostile foreign governments. Maybe by the end of the term we'll get a complete coherent sentence...you know...million monkeys on typewriters style.
Naw.. Not going to happen...
Twitter is now a PR tool used to set the media's heads collectively spinning on the topic of the Twitter Chief's choice. He's not going to give up that kind of control of the national debate.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
My understanding is that many of the WH workers all the way to the top use private e-mail and are probably handling classified documents that way. Just like in the GWB days when the RNC provided the e-mail servers.
Of course I'm not saying there is anything wrong with that. After all there is no Clinton involved in it so who cares. I am just pointing out that if you are concerned about leaks personal e-mail has to be at least as big a threat any personal phones.
LOL like what? Maybe getting some effing work done?
You don't need or want a cell phone jammer in these situations.
A much better solution would be to set up a microcell in the area you intend to control. It could allow phone calls and data to pass through or not, depending on a white list.
For prisons, a microcell would provide important metadata about the phones being used inside. It could also allow prison officials to records cell phone conversations the same way they record wired-phone conversations. Why don't prisons want microcells instead of jammers? Jammers are far less expensive.
If anyone's going to hate this, it's going to be Trump himself.
I'm sure the Russians already has a microcell set up in the White House.
What's ironic about that? Using an "unsecured" phone to broadcast a message on social media? Jesus fucking Christ! That's a breach of national security!!!!1111!!!
So you don't see a problem with the President of the United States using an unsecured phone for his phone conversations in addition to that the unsecured phone being open to being hacked to that hackers can do things like turning on the microphone and camera and location services? No problem with that at all?
You wouldn't have gotten shit modded up if it weren't for the hatred of Trump. Your post is stupid on its face and everyone knows it. Probably yourself included...
And if Obama used the same phone, would you have called out for his execution. My memory says that Obama went through security agencies to get his phone vetted and approved but that's just a President taking things like national security seriously.
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All you have to do to convince Trump to do this is tell him the "white list" will only allow communications by white people.
You are welcome on my lawn.
It is written so in the Alabama bible.
You are welcome on my lawn.
> Total bans encourage workarounds and workarounds yield security breaches every single time.
That's certainly very true. Neither of us said people SHOULD engage in workarounds, but they DO. The more that a security measure is a PITA, the more people don't follow it. Right or wrong. Especially powerful people who are accustomed to being able to do what they want, generally - they aren't accustomed to being treated like children. In business, CEOs break security protocols more than anyone else because they are accustomed to making their own rules.
We all remember the results of the State Department email system being "inconvenient" (assuming you believe setting and a separate private mail server was really for convenience, and not for "heck no I don't write anything down! It could be subpoenaed!" (yes she actually said that).
On the other hand, you obviously want strong security measures inside the White House. I'm not sure there is a good solution that will actually work well. The best I can come up with is requiring all relevant White House staff to have two government-issued phones, one for work, one for personal, both secured. You can say "they just have to follow all the security best-practices", but saying that doesn't make it happen.
Nothing is stopping any of the WhiteHouse staff from leaking things while at home, on the bus, etc. And this ban doesn't cover their computer at the office. They can probably access any social network, send emailed documents to whoever with that. Or they could just meet in person with a reporter if they want it to be harder to trace.
The only thing this ban might prevent is photos or video recordings of classified material in a classified meeting. It can't stop a person from talking about it later though.
Usually that kind of good idea is impossible to enforce on leaders. I wonder if the ban will be enforced for Trump himself.
Interestingly, "crusade" has the same connotation in the Arab world that "jihad" does here, and vice versa.
Jihad literally means "striving".
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Twitter is now a PR tool used to set the media's heads collectively spinning on the topic of the Twitter Chief's choice
Along with the rest of us. He's not attacking the "media elites" to champion we the people. He's attacking most of us daily, the tweets are just insult to injury.
I'm still trying to understand that secret service scandal conservatives were so upset about during Obama's term. Something like Obama hated America so much that he tried to let someone breach the whitehouse to kill the president who happened to be himself?
No Obama was a secret Muslim who set up the country for the Islamist extremists to take over by killing him and replacing him with Biden who is so much darker than him. Aw, come'on. It's so obvious.
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Go home, treasonous anti-American Commie Hillary haters. It's one year past the election. Putin's guy won. What else do you need?
Too bad you don't know what that means.
The cone of silence.
I suppose you could look at it that way, but I figure his motives for Tweeting are a bit less about tweaking you and more about blowing off steam.
He's not targeting "the people" or even "you people" with his tweets, he's expressing himself and how he feels about things raw, unfiltered and uniquely Trump. So his "fake news" theme is more about how he sees things than a political calculation, focus group tested short message designed to convert his detractors to his side. It's really how he sees things, which either scares the pants off his detractors and enrages them, or endears him to those who supported him. Those in the middle just get left confused, wondering why the left is going nuts and why Trump's supporters are laughing about it.
"File to fit, pound to insert, paint to match" - Aircraft Maintenance 101
Reason 1:
https://www.krackattacks.com/
Reason 2:
https://www.armis.com/blueborn...
Those are two fairly major vulnerabilities that worked at a wireless level. Some vendors got it fixed fairly quickly, a lot did not (especially Android vendors). I love my Android phone feature-wise, but the platform is completely fuckadoo in terms of updates, and various models often have lingering security issues or even ones that get completely abandoned/unpatched, making them not just a risk to the owner but possibly nearby devices or infrastructure.
Realistically Android needs better central control, and much as I'm loath to give Google more control, I believe they should take more ownership of the base OS and patching, allowing for core updates to come from *them* as part of the platform rather than waiting on the vendors to implement their fixes. Make it like more like a Linux OS where they own the kernel and core, and vendors can add their stuff as packages and/or submit any special drivers back to Google for inclusion/patching.