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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: 3, Interesting) by Thexalon on Tuesday June 12 2018, @05:38PM (5 children)
What I'm looking for in my politicians and political parties as a basic standard is 3 things, in this order:
1. Competence: I want some reason to believe that a candidate I vote for will have some idea what the job they are running for entails, and will be able to do it reasonably well. This is the Joel Spolsky "Smart, and Gets Things Done" standard. It's not hard to find examples of politicians utterly failing this standard, and it invariably turns out badly.
2. Self-sacrifice: I want demonstrations that the candidate is capable of putting the needs of others, i.e. their constituents, ahead of their own needs. Examples of those demonstrations include military service or being a volunteer firefighter. It's not hard to find examples of politicians failing here, too, and they can cause similar kinds of damage.
3. Long-range outlook: Politicians are often called on to make decisions that will last long past their current term, and sometimes long after they've retired. The good ones are aware of this, and think about the 20-year projections and such. Even if it means losing the next election (see the "self-sacrifice" standard). Politicians that fail on this point are also not hard to come by, and the problem is that they'll always opt for the short-term bandage rather than fixing the reason the patient is bleeding.
There are politicians in a most political parties that meet those standards. There are a lot more politicians, again across party affiliations, that don't. I'm not interested in voting for an incompetent self-interested Green or Libertarian any more than an incompetent self-interested Democrat or Republican.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Nerdfest on Tuesday June 12 2018, @05:53PM (2 children)
And you don't like Bernie Sanders because .... ? He's got higher points in those three categories than any politician I can remember.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Tuesday June 12 2018, @06:11PM (1 child)
I didn't say a word about my opinion of Bernie Sanders in any of the above, so I don't know why you concluded I didn't like him.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2) by Nerdfest on Wednesday June 13 2018, @02:39AM
Sorry, GP, not you.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 13 2018, @05:36PM (1 child)
are you stupid or full of shit? you don't have to worry about the competence of the 3rd party candidates for years. the point is to stop funding the controlled two parties, like a stupid fucking slave, and throw a couple bucks at getting 3rd party candidates into debates and whatnot. just 3rd party candidates bringing up inconvenient subjects would be beneficial, instead of allowing their psyop to play uninterrupted.
(Score: 2) by Thexalon on Wednesday June 13 2018, @09:26PM
Neither: I'm a guy who's sometimes voted for third-party candidates, rarely gives a dime to any candidate (usually in primary races), and has chatted with enough third-party candidates to know that some of them are complete idiots who should never be given any kind of authority over anything.
I get it: You want to disrupt the 2-party system. You don't succeed in that by electing a bunch of Libertarians or Greens who are so stupid they immediately foul up what they're in charge of and are gone within 2 years.
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.