Any Half-Decent Hacker Could Break Into Mar-a-Lago. We Tested It.

[LiberalArkie]

Two weeks ago, on a sparkling spring morning, we went trawling along Florida’s coastal waterway. But not for fish.


We parked a 17-foot motor boat in a lagoon about 800 feet from the back lawn of the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, and pointed a two-foot wireless antenna that resembled a potato gun toward the club. Within a minute, we spotted three weakly encrypted Wi-Fi networks. We could have hacked them in less than five minutes, but we refrained.

A few days later, we drove through the grounds of the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J., with the same antenna and aimed it at the clubhouse. We identified two open Wi-Fi networks that anyone could join without a password. We resisted the temptation.

We also visited two of President Donald Trump’s other family-run retreats, the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., and a golf club in Sterling, Va. Our inspections found weak and open Wi-Fi networks, wireless printers without passwords, servers with outdated and vulnerable software, and unencrypted login pages to back-end databases containing sensitive information.



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[Lucinda]

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[itsrobert]

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[titaniumsalute]

3. Well that is simplistic

Just because Mar-a-lago has wifi doesn't mean you will get State secrets on their. Obviously they have wifi for their normal business operations and for their guests on a regular basis. I dislike Trump extremely but this is kind of a bullshit article.

[drray23]

5. not if you consider

that given how lax Trump seems to be, you could very well have guests or even members of his staff using cellphones, tablets, laptops that are connecting to these wifi networks by default. Many people are not computer savy and will just accept the connection when it pops on their device.
These same people may be sitting in a meeting with the president.

[titaniumsalute]

8. Well I get it

But I'm pretty sure the agencies surrounding Trump isn't letting him connect to public wifi. Of course nothing today is normal so who knows.

[gratuitous]

7. And your evidence for this is . . . what, exactly?

Considering the rather cavalier attitude of the Trump administration toward security, I don't share your confidence that State secrets aren't routinely transmitted on the Trump properties' wi-fi. Remember, these are the knuckleheads who held a strategy session on a patio at Mar-a-Lago and allowed guests to identify and take pictures of the custodian of the "nuclear football."

[FigTree]

4. One thing must be clear to any expert at this point.

When, sometime this year, the WH is vacated, every single server, computer with server connection/capability, device, attached or not, will have to be removed, stored and analysed. The entire structure will have to be exhaustively and carefully scanned.

[LiberalArkie]

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