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kleinbl00  ·  2741 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Did China Hack The CIA In Massive Intelligence Breach From 2010 To 2012?

This is far more your wheelhouse than mine, but is this not a stupendously dumb article?

- what did they do besides wardrive Mar-el-lago?

- what crime would they be guilty of if they got onto a secure hotel network? Which they didn't?

- doesn't an undisclosed cc/ssn leak point more to Verifone than it does whatever user-facing Ruckus/Unifi mesh a hotel has deployed?

I mean, I get it. If Trump (or anyone around Trump) puts his phone on a compromised network, there's a very real possibility his/their phone could be compromised. But Gizmodo getting on a boat and going "yeppers, his hotel has Wifi" neither illuminates nor ameliorates this problem. One would assume that any confidential equipment/network/IT present at Mar-el-lago would be substantially more robust than "ATTFreeWifi." I'm hardly a 1337 hax0r but I know how to set up an AES-encrypted private, invisible network on my fuckin' $130 Netgear and I assume the Secret Service/NSA/CIA/DIA/ABC/123 know some tricks I don't?