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The White House is ordering U.S. agencies to place its new app on all employees’ government phones (www.govexec.com)
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[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I suppose for some people it could be a security threat to leave their phone unattended, but if the office isn’t secure, none of their data is necessarily secure with physical access

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

...do you know what conversation you just jumped into? You seem...lost.

[–] lol_idk@piefed.social 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yeah. I started it

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 0 points 6 days ago

Well I wasn't talking about the phone being stolen as the threat. The phone is the threat.