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Trump Ignores 'Inconvenient' Security Rules To Keep Tweeting On His iPhone, Says Report (politico.com)
According to Politico, "President Donald Trump uses a White House cellphone that isn't equipped with sophisticated security features designed to shield his communications." The decision is "a departure from the practice of his predecessors that potentially exposes him to hacking or surveillance." From the report: The president uses at least two iPhones, according to one of the officials. The phones -- one capable only of making calls, the other equipped only with the Twitter app and preloaded with a handful of news sites -- are issued by White House Information Technology and the White House Communications Agency, an office staffed by military personnel that oversees White House telecommunications. While aides have urged the president to swap out the Twitter phone on a monthly basis, Trump has resisted their entreaties, telling them it was "too inconvenient," the same administration official said. The president has gone as long as five months without having the phone checked by security experts. It is unclear how often Trump's call-capable phones, which are essentially used as burner phones, are swapped out.
Uh oh, someone with mod points doesn't like people pointing out when Trump does things he's railed against others for doing.
To mod that troll you must have completely missed the last thread and the hilariously outlandish way a couple people were dancing around trying to defend him, like "he's not stupid, he just says moronic things all the time and can't stay focused on anything". And "he doesn't really not know those things, he's just playing dumb to annoy Bill Gates". Or just hate that someone doesn't think recognize your boys brilliance, what with the way it's hurting the country and all. Never change, /.
That's right! I work for a 3 letter agency which have the same rules. I have 2 iPhones, one for calls only and one to post my affiliate amazon and youtube links to Slashdot and other forums.
Now, the second phone is only to post amazon affiliate links to forums. Who cares about security on this? So, just like our president, I simply ignore the rules and keep re-using the same phone to post my links.
The slahstards often reply to my posts with long messages that are hard to read on a mobile although. Damn slashtards...
He's made sure the US get to sell more stuff to China.
Possibly lowered the threat from NK and increase stability in the region.
Syria & Iraq seem to be going pretty well regardless of whom doing it.
He's doing what he said he'd do with Iran. No idea how that ends.
I don't know how the wall is going and relations with Russia seem to have weakened but I guess that may more be the result of the deep state rather than something Trump really wished.
Kinda ironic given how much stick he gave crooked Hillary for ignoring security on email.
There are two issues with this:
1. It works the other way, too. The same people getting the vapors over Trump tweeting from an insecure phone will spend hours explaining how Hillary did nothing wrong with her email server.
2. The two aren't even comparable. She had classified emails on her unsecured server, in addition to Anthony Weiner's laptop. That's a security issue in and of itself. In Trump's case, twitter isn't the issue. Rather, the issue is that he has a phone on him that is a huge target for hacking. As long as they change the phone out regularly (which shouldn't be difficult since it's his twitter phone) there's a smaller chance of that happening. An email server sitting there for a couple of years is an easier, albeit different target.
Do you have ESP?
Let me guess.. It's not flattering to Trump....
Surprise! It's not. I think I'm going to have a heart attack and die from that surprise...
WHY are we discussing this obviously politically motivated article? I recall Obama having similar issues with HIS cell phones, which he too refused to give up, but Politico didn't cover that now did they? Of course not. So why are we discussing this on Slashdot now?
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