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White House website mysteriously streams personal finance YouTube creator

42 points by hubraumhugo 10mo ago

eszed 10mo ago
> The livestream sharing commentary on investing appeared for at least eight minutes late Thursday on whitehouse.gov/live, where the White House usually streams live video of the president speaking. So /live is some kind of a redirect to whatever other stream source. My guess is that whoever was meant to post the latest stream had this guy's URL in his clipboard history. Oops! Hard to see it being hacking - there are way more "interesting" things to do if you have the keys to whitehouse.gov - and it's not really a big deal, except for the poor schmuck who was watching personal finance videos at work, and maybe to the guy who just found out he has a fan in the Whitehouse. Hope neither of them gets too much federal law enforcement attention.
joshstrange 10mo ago
Based on what’s been reported it was almost certainly just a mistake but I also could 100% see this administration selling ads on their live feed.
evanjrowley 10mo ago
Sometime around 2007, my late father was investigated by the US Secret Service for multiple reasons, including a "manifesto" that he somehow uploaded to the public directory on a White House web server. A decade later, I was responsible for securing systems in the same type of environment. Various incidents demonstrated that these types of compromises are easier than you might imagine. Infosec of US government networks changes less over the years than senior leadership would have you believe.
nodesocket 10mo ago
This whitehouse.gov stream is sponsored by WeBull and NordVPN…
- tmtvl 10mo ago
  I thought the current administration was sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends.
- brcmthrowaway 10mo ago
  And pcbway, onshape. Don't forget squarespace!
  - samarthr1 10mo ago
    Is onshape any good though? I saw it has some pretty interesting features
1970-01-01 10mo ago
TOS violation. Somebody please sue. https://get.gov/help/faq/#commercial-purposes https://get.gov/help/faq/#commercial-purposes
- kernal 10mo ago
  Yes, I'd like to see the financial losses of the instigator.
jdejean 10mo ago
Around 1am Friday morning, a Make.com automation uploading YouTube videos to a website, began uploading dozens of YouTube’s latest videos. Despite querying a specific channel ID, YouTube API was returning any newly uploaded video. As you can imagine, the videos were pretty gross. I doubt this is related, but if so, we’re lucky it was a finance livestream.

42 points by hubraumhugo 10mo ago

eszed 10mo ago

> The livestream sharing commentary on investing appeared for at least eight minutes late Thursday on whitehouse.gov/live, where the White House usually streams live video of the president speaking. So /live is some kind of a redirect to whatever other stream source. My guess is that whoever was meant to post the latest stream had this guy's URL in his clipboard history. Oops! Hard to see it being hacking - there are way more "interesting" things to do if you have the keys to whitehouse.gov - and it's not really a big deal, except for the poor schmuck who was watching personal finance videos at work, and maybe to the guy who just found out he has a fan in the Whitehouse. Hope neither of them gets too much federal law enforcement attention.

joshstrange 10mo ago

Based on what’s been reported it was almost certainly just a mistake but I also could 100% see this administration selling ads on their live feed.

evanjrowley 10mo ago

Sometime around 2007, my late father was investigated by the US Secret Service for multiple reasons, including a "manifesto" that he somehow uploaded to the public directory on a White House web server. A decade later, I was responsible for securing systems in the same type of environment. Various incidents demonstrated that these types of compromises are easier than you might imagine. Infosec of US government networks changes less over the years than senior leadership would have you believe.

nodesocket 10mo ago

This whitehouse.gov stream is sponsored by WeBull and NordVPN…

tmtvl 10mo ago
I thought the current administration was sponsored by Raid Shadow Legends.
brcmthrowaway 10mo ago
And pcbway, onshape. Don't forget squarespace!
- samarthr1 10mo ago
  Is onshape any good though? I saw it has some pretty interesting features

1970-01-01 10mo ago

TOS violation. Somebody please sue. https://get.gov/help/faq/#commercial-purposes https://get.gov/help/faq/#commercial-purposes

kernal 10mo ago
Yes, I'd like to see the financial losses of the instigator.

jdejean 10mo ago

Around 1am Friday morning, a Make.com automation uploading YouTube videos to a website, began uploading dozens of YouTube’s latest videos. Despite querying a specific channel ID, YouTube API was returning any newly uploaded video. As you can imagine, the videos were pretty gross. I doubt this is related, but if so, we’re lucky it was a finance livestream.