More worrying details have been revealed in the US administration’s message practices. A security expert rejects the use of Gmail.
National Security Advisor Mike Waltz was caught using personal Gmail in his work. Gmail should by no means be used for communicating the white house. EPA / AOP
- In addition to Signal, US administration has also been used to communicate Gmail.
- Gmail communication is not hidden from head to head.
- The security expert warns that Gmail messages can be captured.
Washington Post According to National Security Advisor Mike Waltz and his assistants have used a personal Gmail email address to transmit sensitive military information.
Earlier, we reported that Waltz’s assistant used by Posti, according to Posti, to communicate with sensitive topics, such as military destinations and weapons systems to other federal agencies. According to the Post, the matter is clear from the emails it see.
White House National Security Council spokesman Brian Hughes In an interview with the Washington Post, he denied that Waltz’s Gmail messages would have moved secret information. In addition, Hughes emphasized that Waltz has always added his official work email to “CC”, or copy in his Gmail email.
Why shouldn’t Gmail be used for state communication?
The use of personal email accounts is, in principle, worrying as they are susceptible to hacking, targeted phishing attacks, and other hackers.
The state administration has traditionally used communication solutions developed for purpose, which are very encrypted and difficult to break down. Gmail is a free email service owned by Google.
Gmail’s biggest problem with security is the lack of a decent end -to -end encryption. As a result, hijacking Gmail messages is not a trick or nothing for skilled factors.
It is also possible to use manual encryption in Gmail, but so far it has not even been claimed that Waltz has done so.
-Unless you have GPG encryption, email is not encrypted to end, and the content of the message can be captured in many places, including Google’s email servers, Electronic Frontier Foundation Cyber Security Director Eva Galperin said to Washington Post.
“But his email …”
When Donald Trump was only for the first time on the presidential raft, he made his candidate Hillary Clinton In practice, the e -mail dough is one of its election themes.
When Clinton served as the US Foreign Minister from 2009 to 2013, a total of about 33,000 work -related emails had circled through his private email servers.
This provided Trump’s campaign for a weapon that was also used. Trump and his supporters, among other things, are loudly demanding that Clinton be thrown into prison.
The investigation of Clinton’s serious security motto was discontinued in 2019. Dozens of employees were found to have violated safety instructions, and researchers found examples of inappropriate processing of secret information. However, carelessness was not considered intentional or systematic.
The “but his email” has since begun to live its own life, and today it is mainly used by Trump’s opponents. It aims to spike Trump and his supporters of the changed attitude of the administration, for example, to security.
These security mocks just revealed
Last week, it was revealed that the key persons of the White House have discussed active military operations in the Signal Ministry of Defense. The matter could have been obscured if the editor -in -chief of The Atlantic had accidentally been invited to the group discussion.
After that, it turned out that Waltz had forgotten his Venmo mobile payment application as a public list. As a result, anyone was able to see all the colleagues, journalists and lobbyists who were in the Waltz money transfer application.