Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago - Polidicks

[url]https://www.propublica.org/article/any-half-decent-hacker-could-break-into-mar-a-lago[/url] [QUOTE]Two weeks ago, on a sparkling spring morning, we went trawling along Florida’s coastal waterway. But not for fish. 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. A few days later, we drove through the grounds of the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, with the same antenna and aimed it at the clubhouse. We identified two open Wi-Fi networks that anyone could join without a password. We resisted the temptation. We have also visited two of President Donald Trump’s other family-run retreats, the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., and a golf club in Sterling, Virginia. Our inspections found weak and open Wi-Fi networks, wireless printers without passwords, servers with outdated and vulnerable software, and unencrypted login pages to back-end databases containing sensitive information. [B] The risks posed by the lax security, experts say, go well beyond simple digital snooping. Sophisticated attackers could take advantage of vulnerabilities in the Wi-Fi networks to take over devices like computers or smart phones and use them to record conversations involving anyone on the premises.[/B][/QUOTE]

I can't imagine the stress the Secret Service must be under these days, what with the whole being uprooted and dragged along to nigh impossible to secure locations on an almost weekly basis thing

Imagine growing up wanting to be part of the Secret Service and having your first job be protecting Trump.

[QUOTE]To get a better line of sight, we rented a boat and piloted it to within sight of the club. There, we picked up signals from the club’s wireless networks, three of which were protected with a weak and outmoded form of encryption known as WEP. In 2005, an FBI agent publicly broke this type of encryption in minutes.[/QUOTE] You can break WEP in under two seconds, and it's been that way for years. I feel so sorry for the Secret Service's site-ops IT team(s) and their livers.

What I'm seeing when I read this is, "We didn't do anything damaging...but it'd be super easy for anyone with basic hacking knowledge. Hint. Hint."

Meanwhile, Fox News continues screaming about Hillary's email server.

[QUOTE=c:;52241942]What I'm seeing when I read this is, "We didn't do anything damaging...but it'd be super easy for anyone with basic hacking knowledge. Hint. Hint."[/QUOTE] And? That isn't a crime. Nor should it be. What [B]should[/B] be a crime is a president flaunting security in the modern world

[QUOTE=c:;52241942]What I'm seeing when I read this is, "We didn't do anything damaging...but it'd be super easy for anyone with basic hacking knowledge. Hint. Hint."[/QUOTE] I think the "Hint. Hint." is part of your imagination tbh [editline]4p[/editline] unless ofc it's a "Hint. Hint." towards whoever deals with security

It's standard in the security industry to let the relevant party know about a problem and give them some time to fix it, and leak it soon after if they don't. In this case, the problems should have been well known for years by any competent security/IT personnel so it doesn't really matter.

I wonder why those infamous Russian hackers haven't targeted this administration at all :thinking:

Interesting that they mentioned the use of a waveguide antenna. Though I think that secret service details could/would spot something like that and mistake it for something a little more sinister.

[QUOTE=Sitkero;52241551]I can't imagine the stress the Secret Service must be under these days, what with the whole being uprooted and dragged along to nigh impossible to secure locations on an almost weekly basis thing[/QUOTE] they don't even have the manpower after the scandals that happened durring obama's terms and then trump basically forcing them to operate in multiple states and countries simultaniously because he can't stop fucking traveling ti his resorts or having his kids jaunt around the globe doing business