Dutch government had hacked into Jared Kushner's phone

klappgrt

And the first shown comment is Jared Kushner calling the claims categorically false. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

amelius

Non-Twitter/X version here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50206177

233mhz

It's over for the US they will never wake up no matter how bad things get. It's so comically bad you'd imagine the so called well-regulated militia would have intervened by now

TrackerFF

So if I followed the story, it as GRU (Russian intel) that hacked his phone. Dutch intel then recruited a spy from GRU that handed over the data. In any case, Kushner - and rightfully so - could not obtain a security clearance the first time around, due to massive debt. But it was overruled / waived by higher ups. I've worked in intel, and Kushner seems like the textbook example - a cautionary tale - on the type of person you do not want to grant anything of importance. Honestly it sort of blows my mind that the US has a system decisions by security professionals can simply be overruled.

nxobject

Hey, according to the Snowden leaks, what’s a little spying among friends?

dzogchen

I feel like the headline here should be different.

secondcoming

The Dutch Intelligence services seem to be really good. I recall they helped the UK during the Falklands War with SIGINT/cryptanalytic stuff

gsky

MAGA crowd never sees truth

carschno

“What was odd, the source said, was that the money in the account—hundreds of millions of dollars—had come from a bank in Azerbaijan. Most importantly, Kushner appeared to have transferred significant amounts of money from the Dubai account to other individuals, including a warlord, a mercenary, and a one-time hit man,” Cole wrote.

danslo

GRU hacked Jared Kushner's phone and Dutch intelligence infiltrated them.

MadrasTh0rn

Put Kushner in prison

BatteryMountain

As an outsider, ever since I learned some things about the trump family and kushner ten years ago, he always stood out for me as the most interesting and dangerous character of the lot. Always in the background, never front and center, always making high stakes decisions, wielding power of large amounts of money, sitting in more important meetings than trump (in my opinion). Literally whenever anything happens regarding trump's/usa/global issues, I always ask myself, where is kushner, where is he involved? He gives me the same feeling as observing a young putin from 30 years ago, same power dynamics at play. Interesting person nonetheless.

DivingForGold

Warning you - - - This is a Juicy One ... https://wallhop.io/https://www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-ku...

shin_lao

Unsubstantiated story from Vanity Fair.

tclancy

“Kushner’s counsel, however, said Kushner did not make any agreements or arrangements with leaders or officials in foreign countries that were not agreed to by the President of the United States and in the best interests of the United States.” This is all categorically untrue and besides, I had permission.

ck2

also see from yesterday: * https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50201259

throwaway2521

Dual loyalty.

apexalpha

Might as well post the actual article: https://www.vanityfair.com/story/jared-kushner-hacked-phone-...

mitxela

Every government spies on every other government with every available tool. Even allied ones. (Especially Israel, because it has a really good spy agency)

everdrive

Why wouldn't they? Only a deeply stupid world leader would carry their phone with them all the time, or conduct any sort of business on it. My understanding is that the current crop of politicians is terrified of FOIA requests, and so pushes as much to their phones as possible. You can't FOIA many of the apps on there. This is a cowardly practice. These officials are either overtly cowards, or they are too stupid to understand that their phones are targets for foreign intelligence agencies.