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the-future-now:

Security expert: Trump should throw his unsecured Android phone into an incinerator

• Trump is still reportedly using an unsecured personal device to reach 22 million people as @realDonaldTrump on Twitter and until Thursday afternoon, his @POTUS account was connected to a Gmail address.
• It’s not just outrageously hypocritical, it’s also a major security risk — a national “security disaster waiting to happen,” according to BuzzFeed.
  
• Android Central investigated what phone Trump is likely using, and determined it’s “more than likely” a Samsung Galaxy S3, from 2012.
  
• “Taking over a Galaxy S3 is not just the stuff of intelligence agencies but the sort of project I would assign for homework to advanced security students,” Nicholas Weaver, a researcher at the International Computer Science Institute at UC Berkeley, said in an email. “The question … is not whether his phone is compromised, but by how many different intelligence agencies.”
• The unsecured device can be hacked and turned into an active live microphone, Weaver mentioned.
  
• If anyone is bringing this phone into important government meetings, the consequences could be catastrophic. 
  
• Trump is also “absolutely” vulnerable to a phishing scam, said cybersecurity expert Calvin Liu at Ventura ERM.  Read more

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Remember when we thought Hillary was the devil for being careless with emails? Good times, America… Good times….

Originally posted by cyberdigital

(No but seriously… all of that up there is pretty fucking terrifying.)