re: Article on deficiencies in Trump's phone's security

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Depends on what he's using his iPhone for. If he's using it to get CIA briefings on NK, then that's bad. If he's using it while he tweets on the toilet in the morning, then who cares?

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Well, if they could listen in on conversations in the room or such, that could pose issues even if he just has twitter and porn on it.

I doubt he’s rocking a Best Buy off the shelf iPhone but if he is that should be of major concern.

That said, we would never really know soooooo I’ll opt to put my worry elsewhere

Yep. There’s a reason Snowden made everyone put their phones in the fridge when they met.

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They were still able to get past the encryption (or the security measures, I doubt they actually broke the encryption)

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Correct. Even the NSA can't break crypto in common use now. But they can (and do) find many ways around it. The weakest link is the phone, device, or computer itself. All that software has tons of holes waiting to be exploited, and if a hacker "pwns" the phone or device, it doesn't matter what's encrypted because you are monitoring it in real time anyway (and can easily steal any passwords).

But I'm getting way off-topic. Smart phones came out in 2007, so Obama was the first president in the smart phone age and Trump is the 2nd. Obama used a special Blackberry that NSA had taken and stripped down to its bare bones to secure it. I would imagine Trump could get a similar secured iPhone. I know NSA has the expertise to do it and I'm not sure why the haven't.

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There’s a reason Snowden made everyone put their phones in the fridge when they met.

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What does putting a phone in a fridge do?

ETA: NVM. I looked it up. It was tested for an article. Did not work.

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Correct. Even the NSA can't break crypto in common use now. But they can (and do) find many ways around it. The weakest link is the phone, device, or computer itself. All that software has tons of holes waiting to be exploited, and if a hacker "pwns" the phone or device, it doesn't matter what's encrypted because you are monitoring it in real time anyway (and can easily steal any passwords).

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A quantum computer could break it and any theoretical level (other than quantum) encryption. They exist too, but not - to the best of our knowledge - with that capability yet.

LINK

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Here is what the former FBI director James Comey said when he was asked back in September 2016 if he covered his laptop’s webcam with tape.

“Heck yeah, heck yeah. Also, I get mocked for a lot of things, and I am much mocked for that, but I hope people lock their cars … lock your doors at night. I have an alarm system, if you have an alarm system you should use it, I use mine.

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LINK

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National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden told the world last month that the agency can eavesdrop through the microphones of cellphones even when they’re switched off — a claim experts have now confirmed.

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Please! You know damn well his phone is the most secure phone in the history of the planet and this is either fake news or the White House put this out so foreign governments and hacker dorks would waste their time and money trying to hack the unhackable.

Again. You support the Obama administration spying on Trump. So why is this a concern of yours?

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The FBI couldn't break into one after San Bernardino.

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lol no...they paid hackers, they broke it easily but Feds wanted additional concession from Apple.

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