Has it been your dream to have the passwords, mobile numbers and email addresses of the likes of Tulsi Gabbard, Mike Waltz and even Pete Hegseth, so you, too, could have access to your country’s Top Secret data? Or just call up the group and have a nice chat? Exchange recipes, maybe? Talk about your golf game? Yearn no more. Such details can be found online via hacked data dumps and commercial providers, according to Der Speigel and reported by the Guardian.
The phone numbers and email addresses – mostly current – were in some cases used for Instagram and LinkedIn profiles, cloud-storage service Dropbox, and apps that track a user’s location.
Der Spiegel reported it was “particularly easy” to discover Hegseth’s mobile number and email address, using a commercial provider of contact information. It found that the email address, and in some cases even the password associated with it, could be found in more than 20 data leaks. It reported that it was possible to verify that the email address was used just a few days ago.
It said the mobile number led to a WhatsApp account that Hegseth appeared to have only recently deleted.
The Gabbard and Waltz numbers were reportedly linked to accounts on messaging services WhatsApp and Signal. Der Spiegel said that left them exposed to having spyware installed on their devices.
It said it was even possible foreign agents were spying during the recent Signal group chat on top-secret US plans for airstrikes on Yemen’s Houthi rebels on 15 March.
Doesn’t that make you feel safer at night? And of course this idiotic administration won’t do the adult, responsible thing which any other administration would have done the first day, which is to fire one or more of the responsible parties and get our national security in fact secured. Far better to cry WITCH HUNT! and pull the covers over your head, right Donald?
The national security council said the Waltz accounts and passwords referenced by the German magazine had all been changed in 2019.
Maybe that’s a ray of hope or maybe that’s part of the cover up. And that information is only with respect to Waltz. What about Gabbard, Hegseth and the rest of them? Say, let’s ask Jennifer Hegseth. She seems to be in charge of hubby’s job, maybe she’s got the answers.
The fact that we are even having conversations like this, and speculating about things like this, tells you everything you need to know. We are screwed. It’s only a question of to what degree.
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Friends, if you’re able to part with a little green energy to keep our mission trekking through cyberspace in these trying times, it would be appreciated. Thank you. Ursula
How screwed? As George Carlin used to quip: we’re royally screwed. Want to know why? Our national values line up perfectly with the seven deadly sins. Let’s review: greed. check. lust. check. envy. check. pride. check. wrath. check. sloth. check. gluttony. check. It’s seems the Devil has his papers in order.