Posted on 03/26/2025 3:27:16 PM PDT by Miami Rebel
Private contact details of the most important security advisers to U.S. President Donald Trump can be found on the internet. DER SPIEGEL reporters were able to find mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to the top officials.
To do so, the reporters used commercial people search engines along with hacked customer data that has been published on the web. Those affected by the leaks include National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use, with some of them linked to profiles on social media platforms like Instagram and LinkedIn. They were used to create Dropbox accounts and profiles in apps that track running data. There are also WhatsApp profiles for the respective phone numbers and even Signal accounts in some cases.
As such, the reporting has revealed an additional grave, previously unknown security breach at the highest levels in Washington. Hostile intelligence services could use this publicly available data to hack the communications of those affected by installing spyware on their devices. It is thus conceivable that foreign agents were privy to the Signal chat group in which Gabbard, Waltz and Hegseth discussed a military strike.
It remains unclear, however, whether this extremely problematic chat was conducted using Signal accounts linked to the private telephone numbers of the officials involved. Tulsi Gabbard has declined to comment. DER SPIEGEL reporting has demonstrated, though, that privately used and publicly accessible telephone numbers belonging to her and Waltz are, in fact, linked to Signal accounts....
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So if a Cave-Man could do it...and based on Der Spiegel’s reporting, that seems even I could manage it...the fact that Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard, and God knows who else didn’t have the smarts to shut down their various social media makes the lapse even more shocking.
They probably demand that we use their pronouns when addressing them.;-)
My favorite is “Password1”...
6 reporters. Must be true?
I had a college roommate who was a linguistics major. He created a language for use in roll playing games. It was basically a substitution code for English with an eye to making words as hard to pronounce as possible for comic effect. For example the name Stephen became Yoilpileekasp. My name was similarly weird. I have kept a copy of that code for 40 years and use it to create passwords from simple everyday words.
If a German magazine could find this info, do you think the intelligence agencies of Russia, China, or Iran couldn’t?
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We don’t have any secrets that China and Russia don’t know about, to think otherwise is laughable.
Gee, I wonder what’s Wong?
It sure didn’t help the Houthis so Iran must not have known about it.
But, they do now.
Well they both are, FRiend. Never been any different. So this is shite.
Instantaneous digital encryption one time pads. There’s something to try to understand. Unbreakable.
Why is a Democrat such as yourself posting on FR?
Social media is a tool. No need to shut it down, it just has to be used properly.
OK Troll.
None of that bilge is in any of the reports. These are not amateurs. Especially Ratcliffe. Social media has nothing to do with this— nothing at all. And that’s why Der Speigel is actually Der SPEILER.
I don’t know “sum ting” is! LOL!
Here is fantastic resource about removing personal information :
https://www.techsafety.org/data-brokers
Here is A (surely not comprehensive) list of people-searching websites, published by Minnesota’s House :
https://www.house.mn.gov/comm/docs/6d27576c-8677-4541-b7c5-7be3a375a72c.pdf
The only FEDERAL law REQUIRING removal of personal information applies only to judicial employees. The law is named after a person. The few STATES that REQUIRE removal include California and Vermont. Unfortunately, doing a basic scan in the public domain looking for such exposures could take 2-3 weeks or more per individual.
I use those computer generated passwords on my accounts, heck those can be hacked too, bottom line is, if someone wants to get your info, they are gonna get it
spieler
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