Hacking Mar-a-lago.....any geek could do it

[Tanuki]

https://www.propublica.org/article/any-half-decent-hacker-could-break-into-mar-a-lago?utm_campaign=sprout&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_content=1495040491

"...We parked a 17-foot motor boat in a lagoon about 800 feet from the back lawn of The Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach and pointed a 2-foot wireless antenna that resembled a potato gun toward the club. Within a minute, we spotted three weakly encrypted Wi-Fi networks. We could have hacked them in less than five minutes, but we refrained.
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“Those networks all have to be crawling with foreign intruders, not just ProPublica,” said Dave Aitel, chief executive officer of Immunity, Inc., a digital security company, when we told him what we found.

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However, Trump has held sensitive meetings in public spaces at his properties. Most famously, in February, he and the Japanese prime minister discussed a North Korean missile test on the Mar-a-Lago patio. Over the course of that weekend in February, the president’s Twitter account posted 21 tweets from an Android phone. An analysis by an Android-focused website showed that Trump had used the same make of phone since 2015. That phone is an older model that isn’t approved by the NSA for classified use.

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Robert Graham, an Atlanta, Georgia, cybersecurity expert, said that hackers could use the open Wi-Fi to remotely turn on the microphones and cameras of devices connected to the network. “What you’re describing is typical hotel security,” he said, but “it’s pretty concerning” that an attacker could listen to sensitive national security conversations.".......(much more at link)

(Edited to comply with 4 paragraph rule)

[kstewart33]

1. Tanuki, great post but...

The length limit is four paragraphs. Longer than that, and Skinner can get in copyright trouble.

Please cut to four and provide us with a link to the entire story.

[Tanuki]

2. Done. Thanks for the reminder.