Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
Friday, April 03, 2026

President Donald Trump has been promoting the White House's new mobile app " pushing it to become the third-most downloaded item on Apple's popular App Store. But the app reportedly has numerous cybersecurity vulnerabilities, does not properly disclose the data it shares, and uses software components from a Russia-founded company. Cybersecurity researchers warn that the White House's new app regularly shares users' IP addresses, time zones and other data to third-party services," NOTUS reports. "But most of its users wouldn't know that, because the app doesn't disclose its data sharing the way most others do." Cybersecurity experts were shocked by the app's "slipshod" approach to cybersecurity, especially as it is essentially a product of the White House, and especially since the U.S. is at war.

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Takes a true idiot to install an app being pushed by a 34X convicted fraudster.

#1 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2026-04-03 06:14 PM | Reply

Perfect tracking device.

#2 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-04-03 06:27 PM | Reply

Does the Trump admin even care about online security?

Remember this from a year ago?

The Atlantic releases the Signal chat showing Hegseth's detailed attack plans against the Houthis (March 2025)
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... The disclosure follows two intense days during which leaders of President Donald Trump's intelligence and defense agencies have struggled to explain how details " that current and former U.S. officials have said would have been classified -- wound up on an unclassified Signal chat that included Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg, ...

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-04-03 07:00 PM | Reply

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