US defense secretary circumvents the official communications equipment

Re:US defense secretary circumvents the official communicati... by rasz on Thursday May 01, 2025 @04:00AM (#43854828)

I would make Witkoff sit on his ass in hotel for 8 hours while my team one room over wirelessly breaks into his phone and gets into those Signal chats.

https://news.sky.com/story/trumps-fixer-was-made-to-wait-eig...

His personal PC? Send Big Ballz his way to do some upgrades

https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-...

maybe a free Starlink dish

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/us/politics/elon-musk-sta...

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Re:US defense secretary circumvents the official communicati... by CoastalCoder on Thursday May 01, 2025 @09:59AM (#43857765)

This assumes that the patsy needs to never discover that his device was compromised.

I'm guessing there are a few scenarios where they could be tortured / blackmailed into compliance, even if it meant that the DoD would know about it in a day or two, and it would still be worth it.

E.g., shortly before a real fight over Taiwan began.

I really, really hope Hegseth gets his OPSEC act together, yesterday.

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Re:US defense secretary circumvents the official communicati... by mmooss on Thursday May 01, 2025 @11:50AM (#43859349)

Once they're in, often professionals will create many forms of hidden access and then remove evidence of the initial breach.

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