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Trump Mobile exposed customers' personal data
- mkw5053 4mo agoI would not have believed you if you had told me they had the engineering and operations talent to prevent personal data leaks, among many other things.
- Finnucane 4mo agoI would not have believed that they had 'engineering' or 'operations'.
- Uncle_Brumpus 4mo ago"Hello, Aliexpress seller? Can you paint them gold?" Is about how I expect it all went.
- BuildTheRobots 4mo agoYou underestimate the laziness. "Can you paint them gold? And how about custom packaging and drop-shipping as well?"
- infraredshift 4mo ago[dead]
- kookster310 4mo ago"Walker said Trump Mobile is evaluating whether it needs to notify customers of the exposure of their personal data." It was confirmed home/payment addresses were leaked, how is that not worthy of notification?
- delecti 4mo agoBecause who's going to make them?
- Clent 4mo agoThere are regulatory rules on when disclosure must occur. They're saying they're not going to bother if it's not required.
- lapetitejort 4mo agoEven if they are required, who will hold them accountable? The FCC?
- soraminazuki 4mo agoThere are still rules in America? I thought the new law of the land was ...checks notes... governance by "strength, force, and power."
- 866-RON-0-FEZ 4mo agoThere was a time when telcos would print this information in a big book and deliver it to your porch for free.
- giancarlostoro 4mo agoHell, in some states you can find these details rather quickly since there's so much that is considered public record.
- gowld 4mo agorelevant username. Not quite true, though, because that book charged money in exchange for privacy.
- sellmesoap 4mo agoThe pharows know the best path to wealth. Just hold everyone hostage.
- amazingamazing 4mo agoRight up there with the rest or telco.
- etchalon 4mo agoI can think of no product with the Trump name that hasn't proven to be a catastrophic disappointment or scam.
- SomeHacker44 4mo agoThe only thing with trump I like is a hand of bridge.
- klaff 4mo agowe started using the term obama for that just because we hate saying that other word
- shoxidizer 4mo agoThe 1989 board game is supposedly an acceptable variation on Monopoly. I guess it's sales were a disappointment for the publisher, but not catastrophic.
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- PaulHoule 4mo agoThe steaks were probably OK.
- etchalon 4mo agoThe steaks sold through Sharper Image?
- platevoltage 4mo agoI mean, his reality TV show did well. It was awful, but people liked it.
- coloneltcb 4mo agothis is especially problematic because now hackers have a comprehensive list of the most gullible people on the planet
- helterskelter 4mo agoEvery problem, looked at from the right perspective, is actually a solution.
- cindyllm 4mo ago[dead]
- drfloyd51 4mo agoI wouldn’t call this a problem. This is the dildo of consequences.
- 866-RON-0-FEZ 4mo agoThey must have hired the same developers as every other mobile operator.
- morkalork 4mo agoOr the same devs as GiveSendGo and every other right-wing gifting platform
- Jeremy1026 4mo agoGifting, or grifting?
- morkalork 4mo agoGrifting!
- dataflow 4mo ago> The company said there was no breach of Trump Mobile’s network, systems, or infrastructure. Wait... what? "I didn't lose your money because somebody broke into my house -- I only lost it because I left it sitting on the sidewalk. My house is actually fine, don't worry!"
- ourmandave 4mo agoThe spokesperson said that the exposure was linked to a third-party platform provider that supports “certain Trump Mobile operations.” Walker did not name the provider. Assuming somebody left a database open or password exposed.
- thefreeman 4mo agoMy money is on unauthed mongodb or public s3 bucket
- tencentshill 4mo agoWhat are those? Our intern Bradley types victim, sorry Customer information in an excel spreadsheet all day and then emails it to his manager, who he's never met.
- sebastiennight 4mo agoThese days, Lovable + Supabase seem to be the way. Your options sound expensive, they require developers.
- thefreeman 4mo agoWell trump mobile almost definitely doesn't have a network, systems, or infrastructure to begin with. So I guess they are technically correct.
- dmbche 4mo agoHas anyone yet seen one of those phones? Was it a honeypot all along? (A la https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Shield https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Trojan_Shield) Edit0: they seem to exist and they have a headphone jack? Incredible.
- ipython 4mo agoI was going to say that I saw some unwrapping videos online, but then I saw... https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/936018/trump-mobile-t1-phone-still-hasnt-shipped https://www.theverge.com/gadgets/936018/trump-mobile-t1-phon.... Personally, I still use my BidenPhone, which was an upgrade from my 2009-era ObamaPhone brick. /s
- nathanmills 4mo agoWas the /s needed?
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- kibwen 4mo agoYou misunderestimate the gullibility of the average human. The \s is always needed (though the interrobang is also acceptable).
- swores 4mo agoThere have been quite a few punctuations proposed for indicating sarcasm, but interrobang not one of them - that (‽) is literally a combined ? and !, and is (per wikipedia) for "a question in an excited manner, expresses excitement, disbelief, or confusion in the form of a question, or asks a rhetorical question". This page - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation - has sarcasm ones (but I don't think any are as well known as the interrobang, which itself isn't exactly universally used... though personally I'm weird enough to have a keyboard shortcut to type it on my phone)
- starkeeper 4mo agoHey it's no biggie they are exempt from all rules, norms, and principals. Their customers love it even more when rules are broken so this is more like a bonus for them.
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- Barrin92 4mo agoI think that's always been a feature of contrarianism itself. It's so much more difficult to be contrarian and correct than simply contrarian that it applies most of the time, especially if someone uses that label explicitly.
- hypeatei 4mo ago> Is there a term for this sort of brain dead contrarianism? Reactionary[0]? Trump and the MAGA movement embody this desire to return to the "golden age" which is an idealized period in the 1950s where you had a factory job, a house, a family, and a simple life. Of course, "idealized" is the keyword there because it ignores the state of civil rights, medicine, workplace & car safety, etc. at that point in time. Anyway, I think that's the term you're looking for. Contrarians are annoying, reactionaries are more akin to cult followers. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionary
- plagiarist 4mo agoThat's pretty good, but the Wiki page is far more diplomatic about definitions than my understanding of the word. They have decades of Fox News brainwashing them into radicalization. The groups they hate are "plotting against them and looking down on them." The concept of returning to some idealized past is a superficial veneer over their actual desires: to harm the groups they disdain.
- sublinear 4mo ago"Contrarianism" can't be the only qualifying term unless you mean to lump in the majority of HN commenters.
- 46493168 4mo agoThe picture in the article features Trump holding an iPhone.
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- ethagnawl 4mo agoHe doesn't use any of this crap. He also wouldn't go within 100 feet of the vast majority of his supporters if he wasn't working an angle.
- Findecanor 4mo agoI'm surprised that the idea for the Trump Phone was even conceived. I had thought that the drug king-pin Pablo Escobar pretty much owned the market for gold smartphones, and thus tainted it for anyone else.
- cess11 4mo agoWhat is the US president, if not the king-pin:est of drug kin-pins? https://www.amazon.com/Fort-Bragg-Cartel-Trafficking-Special/dp/0593655087 https://www.amazon.com/Fort-Bragg-Cartel-Trafficking-Special...
- sizzzzlerz 4mo agoOh, no! What an unexpected tragedy. In other news...
- twobitshifter 4mo agoCoffeezilla bought one of these thinking they’d never be delivered about a week before they announced they would be shipping soon. He wanted to do an exposé on the delays and thought Trump would never release the phone He will now end up with a crappy phone and his personal info exposed
- gowld 4mo agoThey haven't shipped yet. Only 2 media/reviewer mockup phones have been seen in public.
- motbus3 4mo agoMy grandpa is almost 80 years old. He blatantly complains about stuff he doesn't understand but because he was once a big shot he think he does. He takes decisions almost as random as a 20 side dice but the numbers are just options and have no correlation among each other. Eventually he does something that seems to make sense, but if you live enough time with him you'll see that's by chance.
- floren 4mo agoWow, what's it like being the president's grandkid?
- PaulHoule 4mo agoWhen I’m that I want my grandkid to think I am always right mysteriously and never realize it’s because I am past-posting.
- motbus3 4mo agoHe was once president or something of a Country Club where he only let the rich to go. It was kinda lame cause he kept bullying some foreigner workers for no reason. He was in charge until people noted he was even more senile than the previous club owner
- fsckboy 4mo ago>He takes decisions almost as random as a 20 side dice I'll bet he knows it's a "20 sided die" though, or is he that dumb?
- sebastiennight 4mo agoThe Oxford dictionary would like a word, and mention that "dice" in singular form is the more frequent use in the gaming sense: https://www.oed.com/dictionary/die_n1 https://www.oed.com/dictionary/die_n1 > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't cross-examine. Edit out swipes. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- plagiarist 4mo agoThe only surprise would be that it is not deliberate. Previously, the Trump White House deliberately exposed citizens' personal data. That's what customers should expect.
- zombot 4mo agoNot just expect, but wish for it. "It's OK when our guy does it." You could make a campaign out of it: "Show your support by letting your data get sold!" That should stick it to whomever they dislike this week.
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- secretsatan 4mo agoSome people think they make smart comments but fail. You could go read about it, i doubt you will
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- secretsatan 4mo agoAbsolutely hilarious considering the absolute fuck all done by friends of epstein
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- OgsyedIE 4mo agoGiven the facts of who it is that's impacted, isn't this the first good thing the administration has done?
- zombot 4mo agoI'm sure those good people have nothing to hide.
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- secretsatan 4mo agoI forget that this site is run by friends of epstein so of course your comment stays and i get booted
- jasonlotito 4mo agoWell, now your comment is awkward. They are flagged and yours is fine. You good?
- behole 4mo agoAre you?
- jasonlotito 4mo agoI am. You, however, are 100% NOT okay.
- matneyx 4mo agoBy the headline, I was half expecting "Trump Mobile was found selling customers' personal data"
- cdrnsf 4mo agoThis isn’t surprising. The entire enterprise was a grift to take advantage of gullible adherents to the name.
- rsynnott 4mo agoThis has to be an absolute treasure trove for scammers. A list of the most gullible people around.
- squarefoot 4mo agoA $499 phone? Hah! Then what about a $11,500 Donald Trump autographed guitar that is actually made in China? https://gettrumpguitars.com/products/american-eagle-electric-guitar-autographed https://gettrumpguitars.com/products/american-eagle-electric... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lITeteouppU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lITeteouppU
- platevoltage 4mo agoYou have to wonder what the appeal of this is. Would I want a guitar autographed by Andy Summers? Absolutely. Would I want a guitar autographed by Steve Wozniak? no, not really.
- tjpnz 4mo agoSo they were hiring ex-DOGE?