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Pentagon employees are using banned and unauthorized apps

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39 pointsarkadiyt12 comments

Makes me wonder why installing apps isn't locked down on those devices?

Apple has an option for that: https://it-training.apple.com/tutorials/deployment/dm195

And a quick search seems to indicate Android does as well: https://support.google.com/a/answer/9997133?hl=en

Reminds me of an experiment, security researchers tried. They took a photo of a woman, created a Facebook profile, and put that she worked at Department of Defense. She was inundated with friend requests from everywhere, but mostly from other DOD employees.

What does that say about society?

That it consists of human beings, many of them attracted to women?

What it tells you about the Department of Defense is that dating someone outside of your own circle brings a lot of scrutiny (who is this girl you're dating? You're sure she's not a Russian/Chinese spy?), so DoD workers prefer in-breeding.

I don't think it's so much being judged about dating an outsider, but rather that it's significantly easier to date an insider.

Imagine dating someone (beyond a few casual dates, the start of a proper relationship), informing your security office about the change to your personal circumstances, and being told that there is some problem with their background check and you have to break things off or risk losing your own clearance (and thus career).

Dating someone with an existing clearance avoids all that hassle and heartbreak, so it's understandable that sort of thing goes on. Holding a clearance also acts as a pretty good filter in that you know they are a reasonably mature, functioning adult, don't have a criminal past, hidden debt, or other issues that can undermine a relationship.

Purported DOD employees, not everyone on the internet is who they say ..

I got banned from using my Huawei phone for official business, I got a compliant phone , now I run hacker news reader, TikTok and Instagram on the banned phone.

What if they were using those apps for official government business?

Dating apps to connect to targets. Crypto to pay assets.

They use burner phones, not gov’t provided ones.

using burner phones for govt work?

The only people doing those things listed are folks in the CIA or the like.

So yes.

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