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Donald Trump Shuns iPhone Security Because it is 'Inconvenient'

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

An Anonymous Coward writes:

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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• Re:''I'm not saying democracy is worthless'' Re:''I'm not saying democracy is worthless'' (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday May 23 2018, @09:00PM (1 child)

  by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday May 23 2018, @09:00PM (#683280)

  Here in New Zealand we do things slightly different to the Aussies, but after several governments holding power after winning less than 40% of the vote we demanded change and selected Mixed Member Proportional to replace the awful first past the post system we had.

  Almost every western democracy has a better system than the US.

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• ''Here in New Zealand...'' (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 23 2018, @11:58PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 23 2018, @11:58PM (#683323)

  Hey, hey. I was hoping my comment would bring some firsthand accounts.

  Almost every western democracy has a better system than the US

  Amen.
  ...and I'm not so sure that the "almost" is even necessary.

  This place was set up as an Oligarchy and The Elites have only occasionally (grudgingly) made any concessions to that plan.

  I'll note here that Venezuela had an election Sunday.
  While Western Lamestream Media keeps trying to paint that in negative terms, Jimmy Carter's organization The Carter Center has said that no other country holds elections that are as transparent as Venezuela's.

  In the meantime, he and his staff won't participate in monitoring USAian elections because those have become so completely and obviously crooked.

  -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

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