The Washington Post that the members of the National Security Council of the White House used personal Gmail accounts to lead government affairs. According to colleagues, the national security advisor and a senior assistant used their own accounts to discuss sensitive information with colleagues, according to the JobExamination and interviews with government representatives who spoke to the newspaper anonymously.
Email is not the best approach to share information intended to be kept private. This covers sensitive data for individuals such as social security numbers or passwords, much less confidential or classified government documents. He simply has too many potential paths for a bad actor to access the information they should not. Government services generally use commercial quality messaging services, rather than relying on consumer e -mail services. The federal government also has its own internal communication systems with additional security layers, which makes it more confusing than current officials are so riders of the way they manage important information.
“Unless you use GPG, the email is not encrypted from start to finish, and the content of a message can be intercepted and read many points, including on Google messaging servers,” said Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, to the Electrony Foundation Job.
In addition, there are regulations demanding that certain official government communications be preserved and archived. The use of a personal account could allow certain messages to pass through the meshes of the net, accidentally or intentionally.
This last body to use dubious software in the executive branch follows the discovery that several high -ranking national security managers used Signal to discuss the military actions planned in Yemen, then added a journalist The Atlantic to group cat. And although the signal is a more secure option than a public messaging client, even the encrypted messaging platform can be used, as its own team last week.
As for the debacle of the signal last week, there has been no impact so far for federal employees taking risky confidentiality measures. NSC spokesperson Brian Hughes said Job He did not see any evidence of Waltz using a personal account for government correspondence.
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