{"id":22396,"date":"2017-03-19T18:45:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T18:45:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/markdistefano\/brandis-trolled"},"modified":"2017-03-19T18:45:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T18:45:42","slug":"people-are-harassing-government-mps-with-hilarious-apple-imessages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/22396","title":{"rendered":"People Are Harassing Government MPs With Hilarious Apple iMessages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<b>MPs are linking their work emails to Apple devices.<\/b> UPDATE: attorney general George Brandis de-links email from work account.\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<div id=\"buzz_sub_buzz\" class=\"c suplist_article suplist_list_show \">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_tweet  buzz_superlist_item_wide  no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3702441_5125133\">\t\t<h2>Software engineer Justin Simon discovered that it was possible to send an iMessage to Australia’s attorney general George Brandis on Sunday.<\/h2>\t\t<div id=\"tweet_5125133\">\t<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet bf-tweet\">\t\t<p>brandis has iMessage<\/p>\t\t&mdash; wordsonaplatfrm (@justin s)\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzFeed\/status\/571922596922437634\"><\/a>\t<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image  buzz_superlist_item_wide image_hit no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3702441_5125336\">\t\t\t<h2>Simon appeared to enter in Brandis’ publicly available work email, &acirc;€˜senator.brandis@aph.gov.au’, in the iMessage app and discovered he had linked it to his Apple device.<\/h2>    \t\t\t<div class=\"sub_buzz_content\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"bf_dom\" width=\"625\" height=\"421\" alt=\"Simon appeared to enter in Brandis' publicly available work email, 'senator.brandis@aph.gov.au', in the iMessage app and discovered he had linked it to his Apple device.\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"print\"><a href=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>View this image &rsaquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"article_caption_w_attr\"> <span class=\"sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_no_caption\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aph.gov.au\/Senators_and_Members\/Parliamentarian?MPID=008W7\">aph.gov.au<\/a><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_text  buzz_superlist_item_wide   \" id=\"superlist_3702441_5125338\">\t\t\t\t<p class=\"sub_buzz_desc\">It effectively means anyone can send an iMessage to Mr Brandis, who has been leading the government’s controversial mandatory metadata collection efforts.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_tweet  buzz_superlist_item_wide  no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3702441_5124908\">\t\t<h2>A group of Twitter users started bombarding Mr Brandis with questions and posting the results.<\/h2>\t\t<div id=\"tweet_5124908\">\t<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet bf-tweet\">\t\t<p>oh my<\/p>\t\t&mdash; dannolan (@yung single dad)\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzFeed\/status\/572186098358616065\"><\/a>\t<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_tweet  buzz_superlist_item_wide  no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3702441_5125143\">\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tweet_5125143\">\t<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet bf-tweet\">\t\t<p>@wordsonaplatfrm<\/p>\t\t&mdash; platinumdepot (@Her Infernal Majesty)\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzFeed\/status\/571935090529320960\"><\/a>\t<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_tweet  buzz_superlist_item_wide  no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3702441_5124912\">\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tweet_5124912\">\t<blockquote class=\"bf-tweet\">\t\t<p><\/p>\t\t&mdash; bencjenkins (@Ben Jenkins)\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzFeed\/status\/572189262973681664\"><\/a>\t<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<img class=\"bf_dom progload-tweet lazy\">\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_tweet  buzz_superlist_item_wide  no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3702441_5124913\">\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tweet_5124913\">\t<blockquote class=\"bf-tweet\">\t\t<p><\/p>\t\t&mdash; elockwood_ (@Emily Lockwood)\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzFeed\/status\/572188082776088576\"><\/a>\t<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<img class=\"bf_dom progload-tweet lazy\">\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_tweet  buzz_superlist_item_wide  no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3702441_5124914\">\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tweet_5124914\">\t<blockquote class=\"bf-tweet\">\t\t<p><\/p>\t\t&mdash; shoerust (@Wil Southers)\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzFeed\/status\/572186325677293568\"><\/a>\t<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<img class=\"bf_dom progload-tweet lazy\">\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_tweet  buzz_superlist_item_wide  no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3702441_5124916\">\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tweet_5124916\">\t<blockquote class=\"bf-tweet\">\t\t<p>Oh god I could do this all day<\/p>\t\t&mdash; laureningram (@Lauren Ingram)\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzFeed\/status\/572190337277558784\"><\/a>\t<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<img class=\"bf_dom progload-tweet lazy\">\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_tweet  buzz_superlist_item_wide  no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3702441_5125121\">\t\t\t\t<div id=\"tweet_5125121\">\t<blockquote class=\"bf-tweet\">\t\t<p>Harassing senators off the line<\/p>\t\t&mdash; LukeVurens (@Luke Vurens)\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzFeed\/status\/572187986504237056\"><\/a>\t<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<img class=\"bf_dom progload-tweet lazy\">\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_tweet  buzz_superlist_item_wide  no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3702441_5124909\">\t\t<h2>Simon even started finding other MPs who have their publicly available emails linked to an Apple device.<\/h2>\t\t<div id=\"tweet_5124909\">\t<blockquote class=\"bf-tweet\">\t\t<p>brandis isn’t the only one<\/p>\t\t&mdash; wordsonaplatfrm (@justin s)\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzFeed\/status\/572190235385307136\"><\/a>\t<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<img class=\"bf_dom progload-tweet lazy\">\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_text  buzz_superlist_item_wide   \" id=\"superlist_3702441_5125414\">\t\t\t\t<p class=\"sub_buzz_desc\">A list of government MPs that have emails linked to iMessage include, health minister Sussan Ley, environment minister Greg Hunt, industry and science minister Ian Macfarlane, justice minister Michael Keenan, Nationals MP Luke Hartsuyker, Liberal MP Bob Baldwin and the prime minister’s parliamentary secretary Christian Porter.<\/p>\n<p>They all have their work emails linked to Apple’s iMessage app.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image  buzz_superlist_item_wide image_hit no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3702441_5125161\">\t\t\t<h2>BuzzFeed News obtained one message sent to environment minister Greg Hunt, suggesting the government MPs are receiving the messages.<\/h2>    \t\t\t<div class=\"sub_buzz_content\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"bf_dom\" width=\"625\" height=\"337\" alt=\"BuzzFeed News obtained one message sent to environment minister Greg Hunt, suggesting the government MPs are receiving the messages.\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"print\"><a href=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>View this image &rsaquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"article_caption_w_attr\"> <span class=\"sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_no_caption\">Supplied<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_text  buzz_superlist_item_wide  no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3702441_5125318\">\t\t<h2>BuzzFeed News has called (and iMessaged) Mr Brandis’ office and asked for comment.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"buzz_superlist_item buzz_superlist_item_image  buzz_superlist_item_wide image_hit no_caption \" id=\"superlist_3702441_5126346\">\t\t\t<h2>UPDATE: Attorney general George Brandis appears to have de-linked his work email from the iMessage App.<\/h2>    \t\t\t<div class=\"sub_buzz_content\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"bf_dom\" width=\"311\" height=\"559\" alt=\"UPDATE: Attorney general George Brandis appears to have de-linked his work email from the iMessage App.\">\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"print\"><a href=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\"><b>View this image &rsaquo;<\/b><\/a><\/p>\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"article_caption_w_attr\"> <span class=\"sub_buzz_source_via buzz_attribution buzz_attr_no_caption\">Mark Di Stefano\/BuzzFeed<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t<\/div>\t\t\t<\/div><p>Read more: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/markdistefano\/brandis-trolled\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/markdistefano\/brandis-trolled<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MPs are linking their work emails to Apple devices. UPDATE: attorney general George Brandis de-links email from work account. Software engineer Justin Simon discovered that it was possible to send an iMessage to Australia’s attorney general George Brandis on Sunday. brandis has iMessage &mdash; wordsonaplatfrm (@justin s) Simon appeared to enter in Brandis’ publicly available &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/archives\/22396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">People Are Harassing Government MPs With Hilarious Apple iMessages<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":22397,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[180],"tags":[2062,1101,686,6255],"class_list":["post-22396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society-culture","tag-politics","tag-apple","tag-australia","tag-imessage"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/14898951497731-brandis-trolled-2-8053-1425264273-17_dblbig.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/effectsofanxiety.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}