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Are you seriously saying the President of the United States' Twitter a/c hasn't been secured by a strong password, or better yet, managed for him by his PA??

This is frankly not believable. Doesn't the Secret Service have a digital wing to secure such things?

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How would his PA log him into twitter when he's sitting on the toilet @ 2am sharing his deep wisdom? Can you imagine the hissy-fit he would throw if required to use a strong password, or getting a guy who has his email printed and dictated to use a pw manager?

...Or did you think his social media team sent all those tweets? There's a few obvious ones but I believe the vast majority are straight from the orange mind itself!

But when trump says "no", what can they do?

Are they seriously suggesting Twitter didn’t require 2FA for the president?

Twitter doesn’t exactly require 2FA for us serfs, but still in a lot of cases requires SMS confirmation.

(To answer the question, if we take as a basis that people excuse Hillary for not knowing an SMTP server under her desk wasn’t secure enough for email exchange with diplomats, we need to exclude the user in any case and make technology auto-secure by default).

Also, I’d claim any attempt to log on the Twitter account of the president should have been investigated like any guy who walks up to The White House and tries their home key on it. Although I don’t agree with USA’s extreme approach to security, I’m surprised the police was so lax on attempts at cracking the president’s passwords.

Donald actively fights measures of reason and anyone who opposes him doesn't stay in their position for long.

This is such an obvious password that that you'd think there are hundreds of attempts a day using it!

Are you seriously saying the President of the US didn’t wear a mask and had close personal contact with a lot of people during a pandemic, landing himself in hospital on experimental drugs?

I mean, he’s not one to either be careful or listen to expert advice, so it doesn’t really sound that out there.

Normal blue ticks have 2FA, _but they can turn it off if they want to_.

He also stared directly into a solar eclipse after being warned not to.

He's the sort of guy who, if you warned him not to touch a hot stove, would immediately slam both hands down on it because he thought you were insulting his manhood.

Well @realDonaldTrump isn't @POTUS, it's his personal account as far as I know. So that could be why, maybe.

I recall there being a story about Obama either not being able to use his first choice of phone or else there having had to have been made some sort of accommodation to allow him to at the beginning of his first term.

(I think it was an iPhone vs Blackberry thing)

I haven’t looked into this story too deeply but I find it incredible on its face. If it is true then it’s an absolute shock and a wonder of wonders why it wasn’t compromised sooner.

“Too inconvenient”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/may/22/donald-tr...

IIUC at the beginning of Trump's term he refused to agree to the arrangements that the Secret Service made for Obama and insisted on continuing to use his regular phone instead. And there wasn't a whole lot they could do about it. After all, he's the boss.

I'm not sure why you are getting down voted. That is 100% a true story unfortunately.

Here's a story supporting your statement.

> But Trump wanted to be able to tweet and call people at will—neither of which is a feature of either DMCC-S device. So initially, he stuck to using his personal phone. … But he continued to resist using a secure phone for calls, because that would have meant routing those calls through the WHCA switchboard, and reportedly continued to place calls from his own Android phone from the White House residence after hours.

But, he's currently using a dedicated iPhone for twitter.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/05/trump...

When the twitter bitcoin attack happened; the attackers deliberately avoided going after the president.

Most people know better than to try and kick that beehive.

After the last four years and everything you learned about Trump, is it really THAT hard to believe? How many 74 year olds do you know who are tech savvy enough to enable 2FA or use a random password?

He is a stable genius!

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