Trump expresses doubts about security of all computers

Post by MaysonL » Sun, Jan 01, 2017, 4:57 PM UTC

gaius wrote: post #33

jrapdx3 wrote: post #24

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Could be, but if that were true I would expect we would have seen a lot of publicity about such hacked info. Surely there's been no shortage of interest in finding "dirt" on Trump, his businesses, family, etc. The nasty political situation would be a great incentive for it. The absence of such data suggests decent security is in place. That makes sense insofar as Trump runs large operations that has to require consid…

Surely there's been no shortage of interest in finding "dirt" on Trump They did - how do you think that 2005 video mysteriously surfaced at just the right time to do the most damage? It only didn't work because people recognized it for the obvious tactic it was.

Why do you think the media focused so strongly on Clinton's email "scandal" while avoiding covering all the Trump scandals?

Post by secstate » Sun, Jan 01, 2017, 5:42 PM UTC

jrapdx3 wrote: post #22

KVFinn wrote: post #10

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>>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 do wonder about problems even with Twitter. If the current @POTUS account announced a nuclear attack had just been launched…

AFAIK Trump hasn't used Twitter for anything but brief public statements and comments on the current (and usually minor) issues at hand. Basically just gets around editorial slants of news media to address his huge following. Reasonably enough, so far haven't seen anything suggesting he'd use Twitter or similar when there's something substantial at stake. However the possibility someone could hack in and use his acco…

Two things. One, he's used Twitter to post some seriously absurd but significant charges, like an fact-less opinion that there was widespread corruption in our last election cycle.

Second, I'm in the middle of reading the Undoing Project by Micheal Lewis, and your last statement is a prime example of how bad humans are at statistics. Months (or even years) of security have no bearing on the likely hood or ability of an account to be hacked in the future. Only hard data on many accounts over years can begin to allow us to estimate that, and even then it's just a probability.

If I flip a coin one hundred times and see heads one hundred times, what's are the odds I see heads on the next flip?

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