Its looking more and more like the end result is just going to be millions of Americans will have to do without, Live with less.
Phones are the de facto platform for two factor authentication of everything; I don't see how society is going to walk backwards to phones being an optional luxury item.
This event is already being used for fundraising campaigns.
This is becoming a theme stretching back multiple administrations. The people at the top either don't understand IT acceptable use policies, cybersecurity controls, classification divisions of systems, records retention policies, etc; or they are intentionally ignoring them. And for bonus points, everyone at this level is an espionage target.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Clinton_email_controversy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_government_group_chat_leak
I'm mildly horrified that Alexis Bertholf is viewed as the voice of tech on this issue
I wonder if she's tried furrowing her brow.