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posted by janrinok on Thursday April 26 2018, @09:12PM   Printer-friendly
from the the-answers-should-be-good dept.

The letter, which was sent Wednesday by Rep. Ted Lieu (D-California) and Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Arizona), comes after recent media reports that Donald Trump is making "increased use" of his personal phone.

Last year, Trump reportedly had an iPhone with just one app on it: Twitter.

"While cybersecurity is a universal concern, the President of the United States stands alone as the single-most valuable intelligence target on the planet," the congressmen write.

The letter goes onto ask a number of questions of the White House Communications Agency, the entity responsible for the president’s infosec needs.

How frequently does the WHCA update the President’s phone’s operating system?

Does the President use encryption when he makes phone calls or texts from his personal cell phone?

How has WHCA adapted to the growing threat of "Stingray" devices, or IMSI catchers, in Washington D.C., especially given the President’s alleged proclivity for making outgoing voice calls on his personal cell phone?


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  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @11:39PM (7 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday April 26 2018, @11:39PM (#672393)

    Democrats in the US House of Representatives, as these two are, hired a spy from Pakistan to run their IT. All sorts of sensitive info got sent off to Pakistan. Democrats have even been making the investigation difficult, because they care about keeping a good image more than they care about national security.

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  • (Score: 5, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @03:24AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @03:24AM (#672457)

    Slick Willie had a sex scandal and the Republicans lost their minds screaming about it. Fuckface von Clownstick has a sex scandal (or, by the looks of it, multiple sex scandals) and the Republicans and all their conservatard followers call it "fake news."

    The Democrats learned how to be hypocrites from watching the best. Nobody can beat a conservatard at being a hypocrite.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @04:05AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @04:05AM (#672473)

      Welcome to the two party system.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @03:01PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @03:01PM (#672604)

      Fuckface von Clownstick

      lol

    • (Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Friday April 27 2018, @05:21PM

      by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Friday April 27 2018, @05:21PM (#672661) Homepage Journal

      Amazing how the haters & losers keep tweeting the name "F**kface Von Clownstick" like they are so original & like no one else is doing it...

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @04:16AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @04:16AM (#672481)

    I'm sure there are spies from dozens of countries infesting the US Federal Gov't and political parties. One just happened to get caught. Even Israel was caught spying on us.

    • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @06:01AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday April 27 2018, @06:01AM (#672503)

      One ought to hire an American who has a security clearance.

      Hiring a citizen of Pakistan who lives part of the time in Pakistan is insane. That is asking to be spied on. If it hadn't been the government of Pakistan, it would have been one of their many terrorist groups.

      Of course, the democrats have to have the "diversity" of an exotic person from an exotic land. Those 3rd-world people are cheap too, and even cheaper when also getting pay from their own nation's spy agency.