Hackers of various sorts have strong interest in hacking the Trump Organization to get dirt on him. Knowing how IT in that sort of medium-size sales-oriented low-tech business works, chances are they have very weak security procedures on their financial and other data. I wouldn't be surprised if hackers are having a field day.
Trump expresses doubts about security of all computers
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#12He rarely uses email. Fuck me. And this guy is a US president. In 2017. God bless America.
Without any political connotation, of just email as a communications platform: Email incurs costs of mental kind on the end user. I see nothing bad of not using it - if one can afford not to. For example, Donald Knuth seldom uses email as well. http://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~uno/email.html
I'm not sure if it's such a great strategy for a future president, though (especually as he seems to spend awfull lot of time on twitter).
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#13>Trump rarely uses email or computers, despite his frequent tweeting.. If 2016 taught us anything, this is a reasonable infosec strategy - Although I assume, when he becomes President there is some high powered govt. agency that can do it securely if he uses whatever protocols they suggest.
I don't know if using Twitter on a smartphone is a reasonable infosec strategy. More than a few Twitter accounts have been hacked or taken over with social engineering. And he's using a Samsung Android smartphone, so you don't know how up-to-date he is with security patches. But then again, according to Trump himself: “I know a lot about hacking." And he also knows “things that other people don’t know. And so they ca…
> The man could be a brilliant hacker for all I know.
Or he's been briefed by brilliant hackers.
Re: Trump expresses doubts about security of all computers
#14I think there's an element of truth to some of what he's said, but it's like a stopped clock telling the right time rather than a deep insight. I can't imagine that having messages couriered everywhere by hand will be a practical way for the US government to function unless this is part of his plan to get people back to work?
> it's like a stopped clock telling the right time rather than a deep insight
That's a really good analogy (I mean in general, not specifically referring to this situation)! I'm going to start using it.
Re: Trump expresses doubts about security of all computers
#15I think there's an element of truth to some of what he's said, but it's like a stopped clock telling the right time rather than a deep insight. I can't imagine that having messages couriered everywhere by hand will be a practical way for the US government to function unless this is part of his plan to get people back to work?
> it's like a stopped clock telling the right time rather than a deep insight That's a really good analogy (I mean in general, not specifically referring to this situation)! I'm going to start using it.
First time coming across it?
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_stopped_clock_is_right_twic...
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#16"Earlier in the day, Trump ditched his press pool, traveling to play golf at one of his clubs without a pool of journalists on hand to ensure the public has knowledge of his whereabouts." It's a little bit off-topic, but I can't help but feel like this sentence contradicts itself.
It's meant to be parsed as "traveling to play golf (without a pool... to ensure the public)", not "traveling to play golf (without pool...) to ensure the public.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
> it's like a stopped clock telling the right time rather than a deep insight That's a really good analogy (I mean in general, not specifically referring to this situation)! I'm going to start using it.
First time coming across it? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/a_stopped_clock_is_right_twic...
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Re: Trump expresses doubts about security of all computers
#18He rarely uses email. Fuck me. And this guy is a US president. In 2017. God bless America.
Because encrypted email hasn't really worked out?
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#19America has become ridiculous. The headline is absurd. The article is absurd. Everything about this is absurd.
How so? The absurd thing is that it is news - it should just be common sense that computers are not secure. It shouldn't take a statement by the future US president to convey that message.
Have you ever looked at a computer owned by one of your relatives (someone who is not a computer expert)?
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#20I think there's an element of truth to some of what he's said, but it's like a stopped clock telling the right time rather than a deep insight. I can't imagine that having messages couriered everywhere by hand will be a practical way for the US government to function unless this is part of his plan to get people back to work?
I wonder if fax would be a good compromise between time and security. Encrypted fax standards exist. I guess the real question is how easy it'd be to shoehorn AES into the T.30 protocol.