2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumHow is a person suppose to communicate while in another country.
If they are not suppose to use their mobile device while performing State Dept business?
frazzled
(18,402 posts)which was so insecure that thousands of cables sent by diplomats back to Washington were hacked, and sensitive information was published all over the freaking world, creating huge diplomatic problems with countries and world leaders.
I guess that's how.
LiberalFighter
(50,950 posts)frazzled
(18,402 posts)The United States diplomatic cables leak, widely known as Cablegate, began on Sunday, 28 November 2010[1] when WikiLeaksa non-profit organization that publishes submissions from anonymous whistleblowersbegan releasing classified cables that had been sent to the U.S. State Department by 274 of its consulates, embassies, and diplomatic missions around the world. Dated between December 1966 and February 2010, the cables contain diplomatic analysis from world leaders, and the diplomats' assessment of host countries and their officials.[2] According to WikiLeaks, the 251,287 cables consist of 261,276,536 words, making Cablegate "the largest set of confidential documents ever to be released into the public domain."[3]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_diplomatic_cables_leak
Yavin4
(35,441 posts)Geez Louise.
AgingAmerican
(12,958 posts)The term cable derives from the time when the medium for such communications was international submarine communications cables. The term cablegram is also sometimes used. Due to the importance and sensitive nature of the subject matter, diplomatic cables are protected by the most elaborate security precautions to prevent unfettered access by the public, and unauthorised interception by foreign governments. They are always encrypted, frequently by unbreakable one time pad ciphers using key material distributed using diplomatic couriers.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomatic_cable
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]There is nothing you can't do if you put your mind to it.
Nothing.[/center][/font][hr]
drray23
(7,633 posts)I am given a preconfigured iphone along with a laptop.
Both can not be used for classified communications. They are configured such that when I come back they can not connect to any network. If there is any document i created while abroad, it is checked and extracted by cyber security for me. After that, the machines are wiped out.
DURHAM D
(32,610 posts)drray23
(7,633 posts)They are assigned to you when you travel. You give them back when you return. As I said, they are then examined and wiped.
Its now iphones, used to be samsungs or such. This doe policy has been in place for many years.
I bring throw aways when I go over seas
Yavin4
(35,441 posts)I don't understand why the State Dept. doesn't do the same thing.
drray23
(7,633 posts)The reason the IT infrastructure is a mess in goverment departments is because the necessary funding to modernize it and bring it to safe cyber standards has never been allocated by congress.
Yavin4
(35,441 posts)information gathering. Only complete idiots would be against it. Then again, they nominated Trump, so there's that.
Yavin4
(35,441 posts)Works on Game of Thrones.