NSA warned White House against using personal email

[highplainsdem]

Source: Politico

The National Security Agency warned senior White House officials in classified briefings that improper use of personal cellphones and email could make them vulnerable to espionage by Russia, China, Iran and other adversaries, according to officials familiar with the briefings.

The briefings came soon after President Donald Trump was sworn into office on Jan. 20, and before some top aides, including senior adviser Jared Kushner, used their personal email and phones to conduct official White House business, as disclosed by POLITICO this week.

The NSA briefers explained that cyberspies could be using sophisticated malware to turn the personal cellphones of White House aides into clandestine listening devices, to take photos and video without the user’s knowledge and to transfer vast amounts of data via Wi-Fi networks and Bluetooth, according to one former senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the briefings.

The briefings were held in the White House Situation Room because of the sensitivity of the topics discussed, according to that official and three other former officials familiar with such briefings, which have been given to each incoming administration.

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/29/white-house-private-email-nsa-warning-243324

[benld74]

1. GOP twiddles thumbs up their bums and do nothing

[BigmanPigman]

2. That is what they specialize in and are reelected for.

[NastyRiffraff]

3. Briefings? Who pays attention to stinkin' briefings?

They're in the WHITE HOUSE, dammit, and above all that. Who do the NSA people think they are?

[Crash2Parties]

4. Russians don't need clandestine *anything*.

The GOP is their mole.

[jmowreader]

5. The Agency shouldn't have had to tell this to the Trump Administration

A very large part of the reason Worthless Orange Fuck is in the White House is his exploitation of Hillary's Blackberry and email use. A person of average intelligence might think, "if doing this was bad for Hillary it will be bad for me too."

A person of Trumpian intelligence is obviously a different story.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. This is why they took Obama's blackberry away

to give him a "hardened" more secure one, with restrictions -

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While lawyers and the Secret Service balked at Mr. Obama’s initial requests to allow him to keep his BlackBerry, they acquiesced as long as the president — and those corresponding with him — agreed to strict rules. And he had to agree to use a specially made device, which must be approved by national security officials.

“It’s a pretty small group of people,” Mr. Gibbs said, explaining who would be allowed to e-mail the president.

All of Mr. Obama’s e-mail messages remain subject to the Presidential Records Act, which could ultimately put his words into the public domain, as well as under the threat of subpoenas. That was a caveat, aides said, that did not dissuade the president.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/23/us/politics/23berry.html

[riversedge]

7. few seem to care anymore