Is that a BEAR driving that truck?
Seriously, just a flash on the right side before it goes out of frame, a BEAR!
I’ll be less surprised if it is a Russian gif…
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See, totally possible!
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Countdown to the next revelation about hacked phones in the White House.
Also: something something her emails.
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Chris Christie?
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I wonder if by-phone is a bad choice. Let’s find out…
https://www.google.com/search?q=stingray+washington+dc
Huh. It’s almost as if the previous head of Homeland Security knows nothing about security.
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“This was very expensive, controlled technology a decade ago, but today a motivated hobbyist can pull it together using open source software and hardware with a few hundred dollars,”
This is a repeated mistake made by manufacturers of radio spectrum devices, relying on expense and availability as a supposed form of security. Spread spectrum and frequency hopping are easily countered with cheap SDR dongles. Likewise, the recent hacks on emergency sirens, demonstrate this is not a reasonable approach to security.
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He always ends up showing at the wrong time. And he always smells like borscht.
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Officials have tried to determine whether Kelly signed onto an insecure wireless network there or whether a hacker, foreign government or some other outside force could have accessed the phone there
This should be easy to clear up. Mueller just has to ask Manafort if he asked to borrow Kelly’s phone while they were in the transition office. If he did then, bingo-bango, 5 minutes later a “special” version of the Vkontakte app was installed and Uncle Vlad was listening.
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Only part I don’t fully buy into is due to the breach. Like he said, if it’s face-to-face or a phone call and nobody’s taking notes, it can’t be FOIA’d.
That’s the real aim. It’s not about “foreign actors”, it’s about not having records. It’s a game as old as politics itself, and one people should be fighting against.
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there are times when the drama level gets high among the 6th graders i’ve taught. sometimes i tell them that i’ve reached a point in my life at which boredom is a luxury. they give me a blank look when i say that but it is too true, boredom IS a luxury.
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It goes deeper: not a single one of those liars knows what a server is. A server can be a complicated hot swappable series of drives connected to a high speed trunk, or it can be a one buck 8 bit microcontroller with 2K worth of code. They never went into specifics, never went beyond high level because they had buzz words and no real content, just frightened, children who saw a demon they needed to attack. So many in the Trump admin and indeed the previous Bush administration had similar or worse protocol or security breaches.
These people are liars, and fools, and they pulled the wool over ever bigger fools.
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So, some of the functions on his phone aren’t working right. That’s different than finding surveillance software. The article makes it seem more like suspicion and an abundance of caution than a definite incident.
I’m thinking this may be more of a “grandpa deleted the windows directory” incident.
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Wasn’t he suppose to be one of the adults in The White House? And how terrifying is it that The President needs people some to be referred to as the adults in the room, and he’s not one of them?
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That’s just politics. The Dems rightly excoriated Rove for using RNC email for official business, then Clinton followed suit and set up her own external server for her official business. Now the Trump administration is refusing to use email and instead using Telegram to avoid the creation of records at all. They’re all overtly crooked, though obviously Trump is blowing the doors off. And we’re helpless to stop them.
And while his chief of staff’s phone has been hacked, the president refuses to allow security personnel to check his two unsecured personal phones for months at a time.
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The US political elites are so clueless about IT in general that I tend to just assume that all of them are constantly carrying compromised electronics.
To me, the more interesting bit here was Kelly openly admitting that the purpose of avoiding official comms channels was to evade FOIA laws.
That’s a thing that’s always been obvious, but it’s rare to catch them overtly admitting it.
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Bu…bu…bu…t her E-mails!!
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