White House Calls Pagers Not Secure
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From Times Wire Reports
The validity of a transcript of supposed White House pager messages being circulated on the Internet cannot be confirmed, but in any event it is not a threat to security, a White House spokesman said. “We have not verified the validity of it, and we won’t be able to do that,” spokesman Barry Toiv said. “But anyone who works at the White House and uses the pager system is instructed that the messages are not secure.” The messages were intercepted by hackers last April.
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