Trump's solution to cyberattacks: Send info via courier

[dixiegrrrrl]

President-elect Donald Trump told reporters on Saturday that messages "should be sent via courier like in the old days" to ensure security.

"It's very important, if you have something really important, write it out and have it delivered by courier, the old fashioned way because I'll tell you what, no computer is safe," Trump responded when asked about the importance of cybersecurity, according to pool reporters.

"I don't care what they say, no computer is safe. I have a boy who's 10 years old, he can do anything with a computer. You want something to really go without detection, write it out and have it sent by courier," Trump reiterated.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/312334-trumps-solution-to-cyberattacks-write-it-down-and-send-it-by

[left-of-center2012]

1. Why not the Pony Express ? n/t

[longship]

4. You beat me to it!

Happy to support yours.

[Initech]

9. One if by land!!!!

[left-of-center2012]

21. Carrier pidgeon? n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

23. More Carrier jobs...Yayyyy.

[lpbk2713]

2. He could try semaphore from the roof of the Trump Tower.

[oberliner]

3. That does not actually spell Help in semaphore

NUJV maybe?

[Initech]

11. ...

[democratisphere]

5. This idiot can't be for real.

No one can be this incredibly stupid.

[Charles Bukowski]

7. It's safe to say that Barron's expertise with computers is limited

to watching SpongeBob Squarepants episodes on YouTube.

If Trump finds that impressive, I doubt he can even turn on his computer without assistance.

[dixiegrrrrl]

12. Trump says he does not use computers.

He uses a smart phone.

Not much of a reader, according to practically everyone who knows him.

[Charles Bukowski]

13. He probably thinks his smartphone

is perfectly safe because "it's not a computer, okay?"

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. HA!

[Maru Kitteh]

25. Except for Hitler. His first wife said he read Hitler's books at bedtime

Which is so fucking creepy in so very many ways.

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. Sersly?????

Hmm..I do seem to recall hearing that.

that is not good.

[Maru Kitteh]

36. 1990 interview with VF. Said he kept a book of Hitler's speeches by his bed.

http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8

According to a 1990 Vanity Fair interview, Ivana Trump once told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that her husband, real-estate mogul Donald Trump, now a leading Republican presidential candidate, kept a book of Hitler's speeches near his bed.

"Last April, perhaps in a surge of Czech nationalism, Ivana Trump told her lawyer Michael Kennedy that from time to time her husband reads a book of Hitler's collected speeches, My New Order, which he keeps in a cabinet by his bed ... Hitler's speeches, from his earliest days up through the Phony War of 1939, reveal his extraordinary ability as a master propagandist," Marie Brenner wrote.

more at the link

[smirkymonkey]

19. I'm sure that the fact that Barron can even turn on a computer is what

passes for "genius" in his household. What a fucking idiot.

[Charles Bukowski]

6. The Onion has come to life.

[global1]

8. There He Goes - He's Making America Great Again....nt

[Initech]

10. He might as well just use two tin cans and a piece of string.

[Demonaut]

14. Ravens or Owls...proven tech

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. Well, not that you mention it...

I just wish my wand worked....

[BainsBane]

15. Make America analog again.

Like Russians can't penetrate courier services.

Does that mean he's going to instruct the states to go back to counting ballots by hand?

[treestar]

33. lol true that was probably easier

and didn't take IT knowledge.

[Ilsa]

17. No, nothing ever went haywire

using couriers, huh, Agent Orange? And nothing could be lost or stolen, and their ranks would never be infiltrated by russian sleeper agents.

The Stupid is strong with this one.

[dixiegrrrrl]

24. Twitter by Courier should be fun

You just write something out a piece of paper and pass it around … to everybody.

( Stole this from Juanita Jean)

[Vinca]

18. Time to start hoarding soup cans and string.

[MineralMan]

22. Lots of 10 year olds can "work" a computer,

but they have little to no common sense about it. They're easy to fool with phishing and other stuff, so a 10 year old is a huge risk if you let him or her use YOUR computer. Then, when they turn 13 or so, they shift their computer use to porn viewing, and porn sites are a motherlode of dangerous websites.

On the other hand, Donald Trump is a lot like a 10 year old boy, when it comes to common sense and knowledge about how the world works in real life.

[Rollo]

26. Two Dixie cups and a string...

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[DemocratSinceBirth]

27. It is because of you liberal elites mocking common folk wisdom we get leaders like Trump.

[Rollo]

28. Carrier pigeons

On the roof of Trump Tower...

And those that fail can be made into Taco Bowl Soup...

[spin]

29. Why not just encrypt email? ...

I have no reason to do so therefore I have never tried it but it doesn't look extremely difficult.

How to Encrypt Your Email
By Eric Geier
PCWorld | APR 25, 2012 6:00 PM PT

How To Encrypt Your EmailEven if you never email sensitive information--social security numbers, banking info, business secrets, and so on--you should consider using encryption. Aside from capturing your email content and attachments, a miscreant could hijack your entire email account if you failed to secure it properly. In this article, I'll discuss what you need to encrypt and how to get started, regardless of the particular email service you use.

What to Encrypt

To secure your email effectively, you should encrypt three things: the connection from your email provider; your actual email messages; and your stored, cached, or archived email messages.
http://www.pcworld.com/article/254338/how_to_encrypt_your_email.html

[JHan]

30. How about papercups and strings?

He's such a dumbass.

[HoneyBadger]

31. On the plus side, he probably likes paper ballots too

[NobodyHere]

34. Isn't a courier

part of how we found Bin Laden?

[Deb]

35. Sent by courier lol

Yeah, sure, we have couriers all over rural America waiting to deliver bigly important stuff. Ya know, like, one if by land, two if by sea. I love the way he shows lack of true connection with his rural supporters' lifestyles and they ARE taking note.

[question everything]

37. Jimmy Carter has a similar approach

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/former-us-president-jimmy-carter-does-not-send-emails-because-he-thinks-the-nsa-monitors-him-9212843.html

Former US President Jimmy Carter does not send emails because he thinks the NSA is spying on him

Former US President Jimmy Carter has revealed that he never emails world leaders because he believes he is being spied on by US intelligence services.

The 89-year-old Democrat told NBC’s Andrea Mitchell during an interview on Sunday's Meet the Press programme: “I have felt that my own communications are probably monitored. And when I want to communicate with a foreign leader privately, I type or write a letter myself, put it in the post office, and mail it.

"Because I believe if I send an email it will be monitored,” he said.

When questioned on surveillance activities by the US National Security Agency (NSA), he said “[The justification for surveillance] has been extremely liberalised and, I think, abused by our own intelligence agencies.

[librechik]

38. ...and watch the Intelligence budgets balloon. Not to mention the military.

and anyway, we probably already do that. when it's appropriate.