Today in yes-that-really-happened: White House Chief of Staff John Kelly reportedly used a compromised personal cellphone for months.
The former secretary of the Department of Homeland Security apparently realized something was up during the summer, according to a new report from Politico citing three government officials, after potentially several months of foreign snooping.
Kelly took the device to the White House’s tech team, complaining that it wouldn’t work properly or update software — and hadn’t been right for months. But it turned out that the inability to get himself new Snapchat filters was the least of his worries; the phone was vulnerable to hackers and hostile governments. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | John Kelly reportedly used a compromised phone for months
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