'Too inconvenient': Trump goes rogue on phone security

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Donald Trump uses a White House cellphone that isn’t equipped with sophisticated security features designed to shield his communications, according to two senior administration officials — a departure from the practice of his predecessors that potentially exposes him to hacking or surveillance.

The president, who relies on cellphones to reach his friends and millions of Twitter followers, has rebuffed staff efforts to strengthen security around his phone use, according to the administration officials.

The president uses at least two iPhones, according to one of the officials. The phones — one capable only of making calls, the other equipped only with the Twitter app and preloaded with a handful of news sites — are issued by White House Information Technology and the White House Communications Agency, an office staffed by military personnel that oversees White House telecommunications.

While aides have urged the president to swap out the Twitter phone on a monthly basis, Trump has resisted their entreaties, telling them it was “too inconvenient,” the same administration official said.

The president has gone as long as five months without having the phone checked by security experts. It is unclear how often Trump’s call-capable phones, which are essentially used as burner phones, are swapped out.

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/21/trump-phone-security-risk-hackers-601903

[NightWatcher]

1. Watch it be that he's the leaker due to his phone being hacked.

[gratuitous]

2. Well, it's not like it's a private e-mail server that was never hacked

But then, why would any of our "friends" around the globe want to smarten up a chump?

[GusBob]

3. Terrorists everywhere, if you're listening.....

[RockRaven]

4. While US intel/law enforcement is bound by all sorts of limits on the monitoring of US citizens

including the POTUS, foreign intel agencies treat us, and POTUS, as we treat their citizens and leaders -- as unprotected by our own civil rights standards. And while many people focus on Russia or China listening to his phone calls, that ignores that the intel agencies of friends/allies INCLUDING THOSE WITH INTEL-SHARING/LAW_ENFORCEMENT AGREEMENTS might be listening too.

The guy is a f*cking moron with a terrible understanding of reality-based self-preservation. When it is all said and done, some of the evidence which hoists Donald's enormous petard will originate from allied foreign intel agencies.