White House Chief of Staff's phone has been compromised for months

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27 points·glhaynes··7 comments

To clarify the article refers to Kelly's personal phone, yet the article states:

"A White House spokesman said Kelly hadn’t used the personal phone often since joining the administration. This person said Kelly relied on his government-issued phone for most communications."

Though if he hadn't used the phone, how did he notice that it had not been behaving properly?

Even if it was not used for official white house business, it is possible that it was tracking his location, or potentially even listening in or taking photos, depending on what the hack was capable of.

Yea its likely he used it to some degree, but if you've ever been in the situation where you have two pieces of electronics that can accomplish the same task and one of them seems to act funny when you use it, which one would you make your default?

More discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15413194

"The IT department concluded the phone had been compromised and should not be used further, according to the memo."

I'm going with it wasn't then and you'd be stupid to think it was without more info.

Given the sensitive nature you'd hope it'd be passed to experts for an accurate diagnosis, not the IT department.

OT: Politico seems to just spurt out bullshit but I'm seeing more and more articles from them, not sure why.

They are White House press on the hill. No sure what you are saying.

Politico has bias on par with something like, lets say Fox, but recently seem very popular? In recent months...

"IT departments" don't know what they are doing security wise ish... Same every corp, I guess is what I'm saying... Don't default to.. they say 'possible' breach... then believe, they are not IT security let alone three letter.

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