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You think an unaffiliated individual just recreationally hacked the White House Chief of Staff's phone?

• rl3 9y ago
  My first guess would be random malware, actually. I'm pretty sure that when nation state actors compromise a high-level target's phone, they avoid breaking things in such obvious fashion.
  • eli 9y ago
    Writing software is hard. Certainly true for government software too.
  • ceejayoz 9y ago
    It'd be a little funny if it was multiple nation-state actors breaking each others' malware inadvertently.
  • makomk 9y ago
    If I recall correctly, didn't it come out that the NSA managed to accidentally brick the core router handling internet for the whole of of Syria when trying to hack it?
    • dsl 9y ago
      That is an unsubstantiated claim from Snowden. CYBERCOM did launch a DDoS attack against North Korea recently, and it is strongly suspected that they have done so previously (like in retaliation to the Sony hack). https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump-signed-presidential-directive-ordering-actions-to-pressure-north-korea/2017/09/30/97c6722a-a620-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/trump...
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