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joshtpm.bsky.social
Seeing a lot of maga cope over on Twitter about how Signal has robust end to end encryption so it’s all good. It’s what opsec people always remind you. Best security won’t help if you forget your butler, drug dealer, uncle, side piece or Jeff are on the group chat.
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senseihollywood.bsky.social
Also, using Signal is a dodge to avoid discovery and FOIA
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sasquatch47.bsky.social
This. The OPSEC issues flow directly from their overriding desire to evade accountability. Their inherent contempt for transparency, and their bone deep belief that the ends justify the means, results in ongoing national security concerns. This is a field day for even mid-tier hostile regimes
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funmandave.bsky.social
And the “high side” system they should’ve used exclusively CANNOT be accessed by people without clearances, so THIS COULD NOT HAPPEN IF THEY FOLLOWED THE LAW.
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kathleencarson.bsky.social
The weakest part of most security systems are the humans who do things like prop the door open because it is too much of a hassle to unlock it every time.
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emmreef.bsky.social
Loose lips sink ships
Text groups kill troops
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angryporc123.bsky.social
They should ask the pilots on the Truman if they think it’s big deal
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jumbanho.bsky.social
Remember last year when MAGA told us Signal was compromised with Woke:
www.theguardian.com/technology/a...
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isomeme.bsky.social
Exactly. If you send a package to the wrong recipient, it's irrelevant that you sent it in an armored car.
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herronbird.bsky.social
Also no consideration of WHYYYYYYYY these incompetent a$$holes are using signal when there are secure systems of comms for shyt like this….so they can break the law and have 0 paper trail. Irrelevant distraction talking about signals encryption security
https://this.so
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lestatdelc.bsky.social
That this chat occurred on the Signal chat platform and accidentally included a journalist for The Atlantic, aside from being spectacularly gross incompetence, it is an abundantly clear actions to avoid multiple FOIA and record keeping laws.
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koboldstyle.bsky.social
The other funny half of this is imagining Jamieson Greer going, "what the fukk, we're bombing the Houthis? Was no-one going to tell me?" and typing frantic Need To Know demands to Hegseth's Signal who's just like "lolwhat, it's 3pm, you know that's way past whiskey o'clock JG"
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amandahoey.bsky.social
Especially since as trade representative, Greer would have been the person theoretically best positioned to address JD Vance's questions.
It's all kind of darkly funny except for the part where this shyt gets people killed.
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koboldstyle.bsky.social
Yeah, it's pretty disturbing to see bombing decisioning being chatted about in terms of "Europe fukkin' owes us AGAIN" and "This will look ugly if we don't hype it first" even though, sadly probably lots of war deliberation may have been always like this.
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saridder.bsky.social
Or if you're using an unsecured phone. Does the government allow top officials to install signal on government approved secure devices? I bet these are personal devices that are prine to hacking. I'll bet a lot I'm right.
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coreymutter.bsky.social
The phone itself is also a vulnerability
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ca-nc-galady.bsky.social
So do tell me why were we bombing Yemen anyway??
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larsson.org
They are bombing ships in the Red Sea.
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ca-nc-galady.bsky.social
For what purpose? Does he really plan to get us into war?
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sh42.bsky.social
My understanding is that Hillary's emails were encrypted in transit as well. And yet, they made it a huge election issue and would not shutdafuqupaboutit for years.
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dogpersonami.bsky.social
We have tighter security in my cousins' group chat FFS.
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saneenglish.bsky.social
We paid for secure systems. Billions probably.
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uncommongrace25.bsky.social
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stonemom.bsky.social
It occurs to me that all this angst about what Hegseth & his sidekicks are talking about on Signal is almost irrelevant since we have a fukking TRAITOR sitting in the WH having private and unrecorded (by us) chats with Putin all the time and absolutely telling him shyt that's classified. N'est pas?
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lbluth.bsky.social
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stonemom.bsky.social
I'd say Jeffrey Goldberg was probably the most "serious" person on that call.
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lbluth.bsky.social
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kevinfry.bsky.social
It's as if Veep and The Office had a crossover episode.
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youtackything.bsky.social
I mean, the very obvious problem with Signal is that you can fat-finger a random person into your groupchat.
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stillnotleia.bsky.social
Soooo many people are going to add Goldberg to random chats, just for giggles.
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robert-e-630.bsky.social
Encryption doesn’t help if there’s a screen recorder thing on one’s phone
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d-cym.bsky.social
Whether Signal's encryption is adequate if they are using their personal phones, which almost certainly have been targeted by Russian and Chinese intelligence for spyware.
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mintpatti.bsky.social
But then, it's not about the encryption, is it? It's about sending secret stuff to a reporter because you don't have enough brain cells connecting at any given time.
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dantroy.bsky.social
I'm old enough to remember that Hillary Clinton was unfit to be president due to email security.
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too-big.bsky.social
Who else is on that group message?
Why is the Atlantic editor and potentially others on the group message?
This is just beginning.
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