Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
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Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#2good. I hope it had classified materials.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#3It was apparently stolen from a conference room and used only for presentations. Still a bad look for Capitol Police and physical security operations.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#4Clearly a big deal and congressional IT staff are going to have a crazy few weeks ahead of them. However, my understanding is that any classified information would have to be in a SCIF. I assume that would be the case with congresspeople as well.
I've also heard that the congressional paging system locks devices when an emergency is announced, but haven't seen that corroborated anywhere. Anyone know if that's true?
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#5Truly a nightmare situation. I really hope they have a solid means to recover the stolen assets. Does anyone have insight into what types of tracking high level government laptops would have?
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#6If they followed proper security it would be encrypted. All of our Macs at my employer automatically have it on.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#7>Nancy Pelosi told fellow House Democrats that she had received reassurances about safeguards to prevent Donald Trump from launching a nuclear attack
Maybe this is too political or HN, but this is the bigger news on that page. It tells me we don't have a functioning chain of command and our government is currently responding to a hard coup attempt with a soft coup which is also pretty scary. Trump should either be removed through the 25th amendment or he should be president with all its power and responsibility. Putting "safeguards" in place so no one really knows who is in charge can be dangerous. Hopefully nothing too serious happens in the next week and a half.
EDIT: To be clear and to address the multiple replies, I am not a Trump fan or a supporter of nuclear weapons or anything along those lines. The problem here is that there needs to be a clear chain of command in case of an actual emergency. People being insubordinate to the president and taking on power that they do not constitutionally could be extremely dangerous in an emergency. The unelected bureaucrats of the government shouldn't be the ones making these decisions.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#8Clearly a big deal and congressional IT staff are going to have a crazy few weeks ahead of them. However, my understanding is that any classified information would have to be in a SCIF. I assume that would be the case with congresspeople as well. I've also heard that the congressional paging system locks devices when an emergency is announced, but haven't seen that corroborated anywhere. Anyone know if that's true?
There are lots of different levels of classification. Not all interaction with all classified information needs to happen in a SCIF.
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#9What sensational news over at the guardian. Look at how they stuffed the URL with keywords
Re: Laptop stolen from Pelosi's office during storming of U.S. Capitol, says aide
#10Truly a nightmare situation. I really hope they have a solid means to recover the stolen assets. Does anyone have insight into what types of tracking high level government laptops would have?
Not really a nightmare when any janitor or cleaner could have stolen the same laptop.