Beset by an awful degree of technical incompetence and enough leaks to sink Atlantis , President Donald Trump ’s governance is now mulling a White House - wide proscription on the exercise of personal cell phones , Bloomberg reported .
According to the Bloomberg report , some anonymous administration officials key the Bachelor of Arts in Nursing as in the main motivate by “ cybersecurity concerns , ” since the personal devices are not under the dominance of the White House and probably bring in vulnerabilities to the facility ’s wireless internet . For example , in October , reports indicatedthat the administration only discovered that Chief of Staff John Kelly ’s personal cellular gimmick had been offend for calendar month after he bring it to technical school sustenance , complain of malfunctions . During a recent stumble to China , all White House staff wereissued “ burner ” devicesthat would be wiped when they returned . Given the numeral of room a compromised gadget could be used to spy on the president , a personal mobile phone phone ban might be a stark resolution , but a practicable one .
But it ’s severely not to suppose that this is n’t in part a belated , desperate attack to at least extenuate the number of White House employee who are fleet on unflattering information and anecdote about the administration ’s workings to the media . Early this year , infuriated by legion leaks , former public press secretary Sean Spicerordered roughly a 12 staffersto present their personal phone for examen to White House lawyers . They then immediately leaked newsworthiness of the shake - down . The pace of subsequent leaks has apparently not slow down , despite Kelly ’s attempts to imposemilitary - fashion disciplineon the organization .
Also , this whole billet ca n’t have been made any easygoing by Trump’sdecision to firethe White House ’s chief entropy security officer , a Barack Obama appointee .
Some staff told Bloomberg the devices issued by the White House are n’t capable of sending text messages , and they ’re wary records of any personal calls could be made public via record - keeping rules , meaning they could be “ swerve off from family and friends . ” So seems like thing are decidedly run low passing well over there . Tremendously , even .
[ Bloomberg ]
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