White House Chief of Staff's Phone Was Reportedly Hacked Months Ago (reuters.com) 138
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.
I don't own a cell phone (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.
Re:I don't own a cell phone (Score:5, 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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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!"
Re: I don't own a cell phone (Score:1)
If this isn't a crime, it should be (Score:1)
What was he thinking!
Time for a congressional investigation.
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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.
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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.
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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 eve
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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...
Re:Slashdot used to have breaking news (Score:5, Insightful)
Gonna need a source on that. That's never ever been this site's forte.
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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
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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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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.
Read TFA (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.
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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 purp
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You forgot the 67 people she killed with her bare hands. Idiot!
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Re:Read TFA (Score:4, 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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You can pry my Trump Derangement Syndrome from my cold, dead hands.
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Re: Read TFA (Score:2)
You worry far too much, Comrade Wang.
Politico broke this story (Score:1)
Personal (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).
Sounds legit... (Score:2)
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I hacked your mom with my turgid dongle.
Re: Dear 'Mr. Salad Chef' (lol) (Score:2)
Re: Ask Ash-Fox about his NDA lie (Score:2)
Re:Personal phone, wasn't used often (Score:4, Insightful)
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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The plural of "anonymous anecdote" is... more than one anonymous anecdote.
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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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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.
Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often (Score:1)
Just curious - do you dream about Trump? Maybe you should send him a love poem.
Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often (Score:4, Funny)
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.
Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often (Score:1)
Oh, is it really Soros after all? I was betting on the Chinese... they have deep pockets, and they understand propaganda.
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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. [nytimes.com] 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 [twitter.com]
Re: Personal phone, wasn't used often (Score:3)
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.