This abandoned schoolhouse is an ideal spot for some relocated Federal employees.
Posted on 02/03/2017 9:19:59 AM PST by shove_it
Federal employees worried that President Donald Trump will gut their agencies are creating new email addresses, signing up for encrypted messaging apps and looking for other, protected ways to push back against the new administration’s agenda.
Whether inside the Environmental Protection Agency, within the Foreign Service, on the edges of the Labor Department or beyond, employees are using new technology as well as more old-fashioned approaches — such as private face-to-face meetings — to organize letters, talk strategy, or contact media outlets and other groups to express their dissent.
The goal is to get their message across while not violating any rules covering workplace communications, which can be monitored by the government and could potentially get them fired.
At the EPA, a small group of career employees — numbering less than a dozen so far — are using an encrypted messaging app to discuss what to do if Trump’s political appointees undermine their agency’s mission to protect public health and the environment, flout the law, or delete valuable scientific data that the agency has been collecting for years, sources told POLITICO.
Fearing for their jobs, the employees began communicating incognito using the app Signal shortly after Trump’s inauguration. Signal, like WhatsApp and other mobile phone software, encrypts all communications, making it more difficult for hackers to gain access to them...
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
At the very least it is conspiracy to commit sedition.
Anyone who engages in that should be fired and charged with treason or insurrection.
Problem solved.
Yup! And you just know they will walk out with all the data!! They have probably subverted the data accounting system that tracks data access by each user. All should be immediately fired. Any failure in the system post firing should be met with criminal indictments to all the relevant parties. Find the immunity talkers and rip that subversion network wide open.
The govery is a nest of incompetents who can’t even do that for the welfare ppl buying liquor, cigarettes, steak, lobster, etc.
To me, this is just like Hilzebub’s private server in the bathroom.
Who do these people think they are? Private sector company, they were fired yesterday when the IT Security team tracked them down. Unbelievable arrogance.
Glad to hear that they were fired.
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I thought that they were going to quit if Trump was elected....just sayin...
I meant if these federal workers worked at a private sector company they would have been fired. I sure they have not been fired at the gobment.
Thanks for clarifying that.
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“The goal is to get their message across while not violating any rules covering workplace communications,”
But there ARE rules for recordkeeping, and crypto messaging I’m sure falls out of that.
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Our government is a bloated, stinking, rotten body of commie liberals... In his first term Trump needs to use the machete to hack away the decaying flush of what's left of our republic... Maybe in his second term the scalpel could be used to root out all those wonks that are embedded like blood sucking ticks on the backside of our soon to be great nation....
But...that's just my opinion...
Trump is NSA’s boss. Just sayin’.
Unfortunately, Signal may be the best encrypted message app out there.
A form of sedition.
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