Deleting content does not seem possible on HN, but you're implying that it is? Once you have posted something and walked away, you cannot delete it from HN.
This is 100% true. They abandoned so many good parts of WU and, today, it seems to continue to operate as data collection (mobile apps / home weather stations) and ad revenue generation.
There is a huge amount of unwarranted assumptions and misplaced trust in the President* to follow the advice of his team in this thread. He has made it very clear that he thinks he is the smartest person in the world and doesn't need to listen to experts.
I don't think anyone can follow him with a known-good device and let him connect to that. The article describes his short-temper and complete unwillingness to sacrifice even a few minutes to take care of security issues.
> Or force wi-fi calling and only let the phone connect to the wi-fi network they bring along everywhere.
You cannot force this President* to do anything that he thinks inconveniences him. You can't "force WiFi calling" without being fired or at least being afraid of it.
The solution here is not a technology fix for the phone of this President. The fix is a new Congress that cares about national security and a new President that cares about national security.
Also,
> One would think that the President's team would...
No, one really wouldn't. The President's team is not concerned with actually fixing this problem. They have made it clear that national security concerns come second to the whims and desires of the President*.
Nothing in the schemes I suggest takes the President any time. You outfit his environment with picocells & secure wi-fi networks, set up his phone to prefer to connect to those, and you're done at least for preventing Stingray attacks.
I think a more compelling answer would be "You'd think that the government's IT people would have found a way for Hillary Clinton to have an easy-to-use yet secure email server and yet they stonewalled her to the point that she had her own server set up at home."
Makes it clear that this is not a technology problem, like most of the commenters here are assuming. There is no technology fix for a President* who actively tries to get foreign countries to destabilize our democratic elections. If they don't hack his phone, he'll go on TV and ask Russia to start the hack already. Just like he did before.
A physically violent and currently-attacking-us Russia, spying on the communications of the US President*, is _not_ a good thing. This is a very clear military threat.
> If this is truly the root cause of the issue, it should be relatively simple to rectify.
I think it's pretty clear, with the most charitable possible reading of this article and your comment, that the root cause is not an issue with contacts on his phone.
The root cause is quite clearly a complete lack of respect that Trump has for the American people: He does. not. care. about the country's security or anybody in it.
The root cause isn't some stupid argument about contacts in his phone. The root causes are arrogance [1], hate towards American people [2], and corrupted power [3]. I'll cite these.
[1] He says he is the smartest person in the world and does not need to confer with experts about anything. Why would he need a secure phone then?
[2] He has directly insulted American citizens who care about the national security risks he poses. He uses terrorist-like language to describe Americans. He doesn't care about his phone being hacked.
[3] He acts like he thinks he is King. He acts like there are no rules for him, and the Republican Congress makes that fact true - for now.
This has nothing to do with technology and the solution doesn't have anything to do with technology either.
I don't think the technology of choice here is the problem. It's that the President doesn't care if he is compromised, but that he sold the nation on how unsafe Hillary would be with communications.
Pick any tech you like for the President's* phone calls, foreign governments will still listen because he simply doesn't care.
Edit: Also, why was Russia, the country that is actively attacking the US and has been for years, removed from the headline? Seems the most important part. (and don't tell me it doesn't fit, there's plenty of room).
Daily-life design pattern, meaning a general idea or plan that can be applied across many things in life, thus simplifying a routine or otherwise enabling improvements.
An example might be, improving the parallization in the way a kitchen works can save a restaurant money or enable them to add new menu items.
Or an anti-pattern of checking HN while a build is going, could maybe be turned into a mini-focused-learning-or-relax-time by an app/service.
What else is there, where the main blocker is recognizing the generalizabily of a solution to multiple problems, that could be made to be sold?
In my opinion it has been made clear that doing business honestly and with morals will win in the long run. So yes they would have taken "that high road" because, if you want to be cynical, that is the way to make the most money.
The only thing cynical about your comment is the idea that acting in bad faith is more profitable than acting in good faith. I think that our society, especially the financial part of it, knows that now.
Do you have any good examples ? I'd love to believe "doing business honestly and with morals will win in the long run" I am not really seeing it play out in the real world especially when big biz. is concerned.
