Politics Trump White House using foreign owned encrypted email

[SlyPokerDog]

https://gizmodo.com/a-white-house-staffer-allegedly-left-his-encrypted-emai-1823870928

 

[SlyPokerDog]

But Hillary...

 

[barfo]

C'mon, who here hasn't left their password at a bus stop?

barfo

 

[BrianFromWA]

OK, I use protonmail. "Foreign-owned" is kind of true, but kind of BS. It's crowdfunded, and backed by Charles River Ventures (MIT's spinoff funding firm)

It's what many dissidents use because not only can you not hack the encryption but even if you have a valid reason you have to get the Swiss gov't to buy off on any type of warrant to even try. Which, uh, they're unlikely to do.

https://protonmail.com/blog/protonmail-vs-gmail-security/

Put another way, Russians and Chinese aren't hacking this and posting emails (allegedly) influencing the next election.

 

[barfo]

OK, I use protonmail.

It's what many dissidents use

What sort of dissident are you, Brian?

barfo

 

[SlyPokerDog]

What sort of dissident are you, Brian?

barfo

And has he used a bus stop recently?

 

[BrianFromWA]

What sort of dissident are you, Brian?

barfo

Only the best kind. No really. All of my friends say I have the safest email. Believe you me. They're some very fine people. The best.

 

[BrianFromWA]

I will say that this is troubling, though...

Per the Intercept, Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee—a GOP-controlled body which just finished its rubber-stamp investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 elections—released a letter this week outlining steps they would take to investigate whether White House officials are trying to avoid scrutiny via non-official communications channels. They specifically targeted Kushner, saying if they took control of the House during the upcoming 2018 midterms, they would seek to compel the release of “all messaging applications that Mr. Kushner used during the campaign as well as the presidential transition, including but not limited to SMS, iMessage, Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Signal, Slack, Instagram, and Snapchat.”

Later in the letter, the Democrats issued a now-familiar call for services including Apple and Facebook subsidiary WhatsApp to provide user records for encrypted chat services for persons of interest to the investigation. In the case of Apple, they said they would seek records “reflecting downloaded encrypted messaging apps for certain key individuals,” and they added they would subpoena WhatsApp “for messages exchanged between key witnesses of interest.” (WhatsApp makes heavy use of end-to-end encryption, meaning the company cannot simply furnish the chat logs, though it does hand over extensive metadata to authorities upon request.)

I mean, I don't foresee the ACLU jumping on this one, though...

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

I will say that this is troubling, though...



I mean, I don't foresee the ACLU jumping on this one, though...

I do but I generally trust the ACLU to be true to their stated mission.