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Federal Workers Can’t Get the White House’s App Off Their Phones (www.wired.com)
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[–] 11 points 3 months ago (8 children)

Can't get it off their....work phones.

Probably also can't get their work email and Teams and whatever else is on there off their work phones. Because they're work phones. If you're not on, put your work phone in a shoe box far from where you sit and hang out. faraday bag, even better.

Wired, c'mon. Only a genuine idiot would use a work phone as a personal phone. Anyone complaining about this gets what they deserve.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago* (7 children)

    You're missing the point. This app is written by outside, for-profit companies who don't care about data security. And the app is so full of security holes that it means work email and work chat may be skimmed by people outside the organization.

    This isn't a case of "don't use your work phone for personal stuff."

    This is a case of e.g. "foreign criminal organizations can potentially steal American Social Security databases."

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    These people literally give away classified documents to friends as party favors. No one that isn't an idiot thinks they're doing anything other than undermining the US in every thing they do. It's literally part of Peter Thiel's goal, to pump and dump the whole country. It's been pump for too long, so they'll crash it, buy cheap, and then act like kings.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (5 children)

    Not every government employee is a Trump stooge.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    I wasn't talking about government employees. I was talking about the elected officials :)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    And this article is about federal employees

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    And Federal Devices. If those devices aren't secure, that's not the employee's problem.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It is when they work in intelligence and someone can find out and kidnap or kill their family to threaten them.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago

    OK, slow down there, pardner.

    First off, advertising data is already used to do this. The WH app probably doesn't really provide anything new that the CCP can't already buy, the same way the USG buys ad data to track both Americans and non-Americans alike in violation of spirit of the 4th Amendment. The app might be vulnerable to targeted attacks and zero days, as everything made by this administration is twice as expensive and a quarter as good as what's available to the general public because corruption is the only metric for success with them.

    Second, if it's a classified device, then (using the DOD as a proxy) the WH app isn't secure enough to be allowed as installed because it wouldn't pass NSA vetting because it is an attack surface for targeted hacks. Meaning that nothing beyond emails that are FOIAable anyway are on the devices.

    Third, real life isn't movies. Calm down, Liam Neeson.

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