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A personal email account of White House Chief of Staff John Kelly was hacked, according to an email obtained by Buzzfeed via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. "As we discussed ... my folks are nervous about the emails you send and ask that you no longer include them on any postings," Kelly wrote. "Then there is hacking which one of my own personal accounts has suffered recently. I do almost everything now by phone or face-to-face comms."
The FOIA email confirms previous reports from Politico that Kelly used a compromised smartphone for months. If it's the same incident (the White House never confirmed the original reports), the attack happened during Trump's transition in late 2016 while Kelly was secretary of homeland security.
https://www.engadget.com/2018/06/11/john-kelly-hacked-foia-request/
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday June 12 2018, @03:30PM (9 children)
head - meaning, in charge of
homeland - that's like, everything, right?
security - supposed to mean well informed, smart, sophisticated, insightful, among other things. Amirite? How am I doing so far?
hacked - someone brighter than you gets into all your stuffs
(for) months - that's like a long, long, time?
So, what this all adds up to is, the best informed person in the US, this really bright, intelligent dude, who is supposed to protect all of us from the boogeyman, was hacked, and stayed hacked, for MONTHS!!
Hmmmph. Some people watch soap operas, others actually watch opera - and we're stuck with some poor security theater.
(Score: 5, Funny) by c0lo on Tuesday June 12 2018, @03:34PM (2 children)
Look on the bright side, mate - at least it is not a cheap theatre. (grin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @05:34PM (1 child)
Not sure of your meaning for "cheap theater"?
On the Canadian side of the Niagara River (border towns) there are/were some strip clubs that the Americans called, "Canadian ballet"...is that similar innuendo?
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday June 12 2018, @11:32PM
The price for the ticket, mate, check it out in the US budget.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @03:41PM (1 child)
Who's watching the wa^H^H soap then?
(Score: 3, Funny) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday June 12 2018, @03:47PM
Well, YOU ARE!! Would you mind picking it up for me?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 12 2018, @04:27PM (1 child)
Hmm, I want to go for the famous O Fortuna of Carmina Burana, but then this whole thing seems more like the Götterdämmerung part of the larger Der Ring des Nibelungen cycle. Perhaps we can call it Kapitaldämmerung instead.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday June 12 2018, @04:49PM
I think we found one!
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DeathMonkey on Tuesday June 12 2018, @05:30PM (1 child)
It's also telling that this public servant isn't worried about the Chinese or the Russians or other hostile foreign powers listening in. He's worried the American public might find out what he's up to:
“FOIA is real and everyday here in the cesspool, and even federal court action on personal accounts is real.” - White House Chief of Staff John Kelly
(Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Tuesday June 12 2018, @07:27PM
In one sense, he should be. At least in theory, we're the ones he has to answer to.