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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Trump's solution to cyberattacks: Send info via courier
2017-01-01
[The Hill] 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.
Posted by:Besoeker

#8  Comrade Slick wrote?
Posted by: Shipman    2017-01-01 23:47  

#7  This is another time I've wondered if Trump is a devotee of Tom Clancy. Ever read "Red Rabbit"?
Posted by: AlanC   2017-01-01 19:58  

#6  Never put in an email what you wouldn't want splashed on the front page of the New York Times out of context.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2017-01-01 12:16  

#5  A wise old police training officer once told me: "Never say anything out loud that you would hate to hear repeated to a grand jury".
That about sums it up.
Posted by: ed in texas   2017-01-01 11:53  

#4  And you can encrypt the message in a way that chops it up into X pieces to be sent via X messengers. Only Y out of X pieces are needed to assemble the message for decryption, so the loss of a couple of couriers wouldn't affect your ability to decrypt, and the captured data is useless.
Posted by: KBK   2017-01-01 11:10  

#3  It's how the Germans sent the orders to organize and initiate the Ardennes attack in Dec '44. The allies were caught by surprise due to the heavy dependence on sigint.
Posted by: P2Kontheroad   2017-01-01 08:20  

#2  ...We will, of course, hear nothing but high-toned snorts of laughter about the technical Luddite we have elected against the advice of Our Betters.

And we will - we should - laugh quietly in reply, BECAUSE HE'S RIGHT.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2017-01-01 08:18  

#1  Good advice.

When it comes to information security the Trump administration might really end the era of flatworm like stupidity.
Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660   2017-01-01 04:34  

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