> They also specify the use of "retransmission devices" (mifi routers, basically) in favour of native cellular capability
Yeah, this makes the most sense, there's no way they'd let a president's phone be connected to commercial networks. Tracking alone would be a huge issue, not to mention the plethora of ss7 abuses that can be done.
“[Christopher] Krebs, through CISA, falsely and baselessly denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen, including by inappropriately and categorically dismissing widespread election malfeasance and serious vulnerabilities with voting machines.”
I believe this has been the case for him and all of his senior staff since the beginning of his first presidency
See for example this from 2017:
> Despite universal warnings from security experts in and out of government, Donald Trump is apparently continuing to use an insecure, off-the-shelf Android phone
I remember reading news articles on the topic at the time, and finding it egregious how relatively little attention it got, compared to the massive and coordinated ”lock her up” campaign against Hillary Clinton
Yeah, this makes the most sense, there's no way they'd let a president's phone be connected to commercial networks. Tracking alone would be a huge issue, not to mention the plethora of ss7 abuses that can be done.