How do WH staffers work securely from home? What does that even mean?

[Stinky The Clown]

Are they suddenly worried about internet security while he bangs away on his phone and talks unsecured?

[HipChick]

1. Had the same question...

How are they enabling 'secure' communication/

[underpants]

2. They probably have a secure VPN network

Not sure about emails (Fed technology is notoriously bad) and I’d guess they have secure phones.

[lapfog_1]

5. Actually White House (non Sit room and non Oval Office)

was done by NASA... how do I know this? Because some of my team at NASA did it for President Clinton back in the day... and I understand that the same team has been improving things there ever since.

Again, this is for stuff not classified.

and, yes, in general the Federal Computing systems from most agencies are woefully out of date... however not NASA (or the DOE either).

[underpants]

6. Thanks.

NASA, really? Well I guess rocket scientists can’t be bad.

[lapfog_1]

7. Rocket Science is easy,

aerodynamics is hard.

That is the saying we used at the aeronautics side of the agency. LOL

Former team member at the Numerical Aerodynamics Simulation facility (aka NAS).

[lapfog_1]

3. Pretty easy

first off, not a lot of business that happens in the White House would be considered Top Secret or even Secret. Most is just "Sensitive"

The situation room probably has it's own security arrangements... and probably the Oval Office.

As for the rest of the staff... they would use a MilSpec VPN from their homes to access the White House servers for email, etc.

With the advent of Quantum computing or even just very powerful classic computers, the VPNs can probably be compromised... however, again, not super secret stuff to be found.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. securely? This implies they are or ever have been, at all. Putin knows everything, who was it

describing traitors questioning of what the former CIA chief knew about stuff, as if he was getting the info to give to someone?

Remarkable what REAGAN DIEHARD SUPPORTERS will put up with.