White House staffer left email passwords on official stationery at bus stop: report
Source: The Hill
BY MORGAN GSTALTER - 03/17/18 03:59 PM EDT
A White House staffer left the password to his encrypted email account at a bus stop in Washington, D.C., according to a new report.
Ryan McAvoy left his ProtonMail passwords and email address on a piece of White House stationery at a bus stop near the White House, The Intercept reported Saturday.
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Someone reportedly found the piece of paper and turned it over to The Intercept, which said that it confirmed its authenticity. The aide, who works as a staff assistant in the White House, did not return The Intercept's requests for comment.
House Intelligence Committee Democrats said Wednesday they are interested in filing a subpoena to see how Trump campaign officials used WhatsApp, a messaging service.
Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/378949-white-house-staffer-left-email-passwords-on-official-stationery
marble falls
(57,263 posts)Is this part of that "chaos" thing Cheetolini likes so much?
MurrayDelph
(5,301 posts)that I'm less afraid of the dangers of Artificial Intelligence killing me than I am of genuine stupidity.
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)RKP5637
(67,112 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)Aristus
(66,467 posts)God, these assholes piss me off.
What a shitcircus.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)How bad this white house really is.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)And start a Congressional investigation!
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)Isn't a private mail server use within the White House staff a violation of the Presidential Records Act.
And this one isn't in the basement or in Trump Tower, it is an end to end encrypted service based in Switzerland.
jpak
(41,760 posts)The Wielding Truth
(11,415 posts)It could have been.
Mc Mike
(9,115 posts)I think dRump told Sergei and Sergey the White House admin password, the last time they were all yukking it up in the Oval Office together.
jmowreader
(50,563 posts)Protonmail is "secure email based in Switzerland."
What, exactly, is a White House staffer doing conducting business with a Swiss email account?
ffr
(22,672 posts)This warrants years of investigation and panelists being questioned for days at a time.
lutherj
(2,496 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)htuttle
(23,738 posts)NBachers
(17,146 posts)htuttle
(23,738 posts)And it's written on official letterhead, for fuck's sake!
ProtonMail is favored by privacy advocates....
...as well as spies, drug dealers, terrorists, hackers, and any anyone else who wants a free encrypted email account.
Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)top people.
At least "amazing" would fit.
errant boy
(69 posts)Perhaps even expertise!
WhoWoodaKnew
(847 posts)Critical stuff that we all need to know?