Not An April Fool’s Joke
Posted by Phoenix Woman on April 1, 2007
Last Monday, Henry Waxman, in his capacity as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, wrote to the RNC and the Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign and directed them to preserve all e-mails by and for White House officials because they “may be relevant to multiple congressional investigations.” Waxman also requested that they meet with the committee for an airing of the huge legal (not to mention ethical) quagmire that is implicit in conducting official government business using partisan e-mail accounts.
How did the Bush Junta members respond? In the stupidest way possible.
According to U.S. News and World Report, some Bush aides “have subsequently bought their own private E-mail system through a cellular phone or Blackberry server. When asked how he communicated, one aide pulled out a new personal cellphone and said, ‘texting.’”
Hoo boy. As anyone who stayed awake through their company’s information-security training lecture knows, cellphones are the least secure information-transmittal system out there. There are problems galore with using the things for sensitive information — in fact, most security experts will tell you never to send anything over a cellphone that wouldn’t mind seeing on network TV.
So even as the Bushies send their cutesy little texts to each other — “Wow that Waxman is teh suxxorz! But he cant tuch uz now cuz we be textin LOL!” — the Soviets are probably upgrading their own Wi-Fi receivers to pick up these unscrambled, wide-open transmissions. (Hell, they probably won’t even need to use AirSnort.)
5 Responses to “Not An April Fool’s Joke”
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belledame222 said
it’s like the entire administration’s being run by the villains in “Fargo.”
“Unguent. I need unguent.”
god.
Phoenix Woman said
That’s what people need to understand: The Bushies and their minions are not superior beings. If anything, they’re inferior. They have been insulated for so long by so much money and so many powerful friends that they’ve never, ever, ever had to pay the price for their mistakes. This means that they’ve never had to learn the common sense the average teenage fast-food cashier picks up after a week on the job.
When they’re put in a situation where their money means nothing, they’re as helpless as maggot grubs in the shadow of the sole of a size twelve Doc Marten.
Stormcrow said
‘texting.’
Oh. My. God.
You know what happens when a cell phone gets seized? The VERY FIRST THING that gets imaged by the forensics guy?? Yeah. The SIM card.
And guess where the last few text messages get stored? Same as “last number dialed”? Yeah. The SIM card.
“What if the subject uses a PIN?”, I hear you cry. Well, you don’t play guessing games because three wrong guesses and the SIM is locked. You just subpoenea the service provider and get the PUK (PIN Unblocking Key) and reset the PIN and then happily copy out the contents of the whole freaking thing.
Dear sweet chocolate Jesus, these people are stupid.
Phoenix Woman said
“Dear sweet chocolate Jesus, these people are stupid.”
Exactly. Competence is a disqualifier with these folk.
MEC said
“Dear sweet chocolate Jesus, these people are stupid.”
As I said in an earlier post, the only thing that’s going to save us from the Busheviks is that they’re even more incompetent than they are corrupt.
Almost as interesting as the last few text messages, I think, would be the phone contact list.