How is a person suppose to communicate while in another country.

[LiberalFighter]

If they are not suppose to use their mobile device while performing State Dept business?

[frazzled]

1. Use the State Dept cable system

which was so insecure that thousands of cables sent by diplomats back to Washington were hacked, and sensitive information was published all over the freaking world, creating huge diplomatic problems with countries and world leaders.

I guess that's how.

[LiberalFighter]

2. Was it Snowden that gained access to them?

[frazzled]

4. Wikileaks

The United States diplomatic cables leak, widely known as Cablegate, began on Sunday, 28 November 2010[1] when WikiLeaks—a non-profit organization that publishes submissions from anonymous whistleblowers—began releasing classified cables that had been sent to the U.S. State Department by 274 of its consulates, embassies, and diplomatic missions around the world. Dated between December 1966 and February 2010, the cables contain diplomatic analysis from world leaders, and the diplomats' assessment of host countries and their officials.[2] According to WikiLeaks, the 251,287 cables consist of 261,276,536 words, making Cablegate "the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain."[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak

[Yavin4]

9. Cables? What the fuck is this, 1875?

Geez Louise.

[AgingAmerican]

14. It isn't a literal term

The term cable derives from the time when the medium for such communications was international submarine communications cables. The term cablegram is also sometimes used. Due to the importance and sensitive nature of the subject matter, diplomatic cables are protected by the most elaborate security precautions to prevent unfettered access by the public, and unauthorised interception by foreign governments. They are always encrypted, frequently by unbreakable one time pad ciphers using key material distributed using diplomatic couriers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_cable

[randome]

3. Put it on Sharepoint. Duh!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]

[drray23]

5. when i travel for the department of energy

I am given a preconfigured iphone along with a laptop.
Both can not be used for classified communications. They are configured such that when I come back they can not connect to any network. If there is any document i created while abroad, it is checked and extracted by cyber security for me. After that, the machines are wiped out.

[DURHAM D]

6. How long have you had the iphone and laptop described? nt

[drray23]

11. its a new one only for the trip.

They are assigned to you when you travel. You give them back when you return. As I said, they are then examined and wiped.
Its now iphones, used to be samsungs or such. This doe policy has been in place for many years.

[NWCorona]

7. This!

I bring throw aways when I go over seas

[Yavin4]

8. That's the way most sane companies function

I don't understand why the State Dept. doesn't do the same thing.

[DURHAM D]

12. Money

[drray23]

13. the gop has been cutting budgets fir many years.

The reason the IT infrastructure is a mess in goverment departments is because the necessary funding to modernize it and bring it to safe cyber standards has never been allocated by congress.

[Yavin4]

15. In the long run, modernizing IT saves money, provides better security, and allows for better

information gathering. Only complete idiots would be against it. Then again, they nominated Trump, so there's that.

[Yavin4]

10. Send a Raven

Works on Game of Thrones.