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posted by martyb on Wednesday May 23 2018, @03:29AM   Printer-friendly
from the Let's-Play-"Pwn-the-POTUS" dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/22/donald-trump-shuns-white-house-iphone-security-inconvenient-reports-say

The US president, who has not used email while in office, has one iPhone capable only of making calls and another that is used as his Twitter phone, with access to a series of news sites and the social network, according to White House officials talking to Politico.

While his call-capable iPhone is issued by White House staff and is swapped out “through routine support operations” to check for hacking and other security concerns, Trump has resisted attempts to do similar for as long as five months with his Twitter phone, saying it was “too inconvenient”.

A US president has the power to override White House policy and disregard advice, but given that the devices and systems they use are prime targets for foreign intelligence agencies, doing so can pose significant US national security risks.


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  • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday May 23 2018, @07:36PM

    by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday May 23 2018, @07:36PM (#683232)

    A compromised cellphone could be used to listen into everything Trump is doing.

    I'm not sure how actually useful that even is, when this is the guy who changes his mind on major issues about once a week and most of what he says doesn't mean anything in the first place.

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