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There are portable SCIFs, basically specially designed trailers, to allow senior staff to communicate securely on the road. It's very likely Vance had one of th
by profmonocle 1y ago
There are portable SCIFs, basically specially designed trailers, to allow senior staff to communicate securely on the road. It's very likely Vance had one of these nearby.
- Sanzig 1y agoNot to mention plenty of DoD facilities from coast-to-coast with SCIFs - even without a portable SCIF, he likely wasn't far from one. Failing that, these people almost certainly have laptops connected to DoD networks at a lower COMSEC level than a true SCIF (indeed, "high-side laptops" were mentioned in the Signal thread). They could have communicated with those. I don't know about DoD policy if those would be acceptable or not for discussions about planned strikes, but it'd be a hell of a lot more secure than unsecured public smartphones.
- throw0101c 1y ago> There are portable SCIFs, basically specially designed trailers […] There are 'tents' as well; Obama in one: * https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-12810675 https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-12810675 * http://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/us/politics/obamas-portable-zone-of-secrecy-some-assembly-required.html http://archive.is/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/10/us/poli...