It geniuely concerns me that this type of stuff doesn't warrant a meeting or encrypted messaging.
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The Trump administration is so close to making the greatest post of all time on the War Thunder forums
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elect fucking russian idiots , be surprised about the results
Wow. Just wow.
Good thing they fired everyone who worked in secure communications.
Next week: the trump administration accidentally texted its war plans on my Minecraft server.
TIL that the US military texts around sensitive plans, reporter aside, SMS is not a secure protocol to do this.
Article plainly states it was signal, not that that is much better
No matter what the protocol is, the chat is completely vulnerable once a single chat member's phone gets infiltrated. There's not a set of higher value targets in the world than the US president and his cabinet for actors like China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and even Israel.
There is a reason national defense related discussion is meant to happen exclusively on a locked-down High-Side network, on exclusively locked-down High-Side equipment that exists exclusively in locked-down High-Side locations.
No shit. I was just correcting them on the confidently incorrect assumption they made without even skimming the article.
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Well, at least it encrypted, unlike trumps bathroom.
Post is constantly being deleted on Reddit. What is going on?
They’re just cunts.
Yeah. Both on r/worldnews and r/europe. Not in smaller national subreddits though, where people are up in arms about the Europe comments. I don't understand why Reddit would seek to censor these leaks, as they are already disseminated across the MSM everywhere.
Social media companies just doing the bidding of their owners.
Usually it's due to many many many duplicate posts.
Yikes....why am I not suprised
[This article reads like satire]
These are golden, absolutely brilliant
The one with Big Bird is backwards. I feel like the reporter was the only adult in the room.
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Just a reminder that they chose to use Signal for a reason, and those are also reasons we normal citizens should use Signal too! At least try and talk your closest relatives into dumping WhatsApp for it.
Yeah, this article was truly a fascinating read! The one thing that surprised me from Goldberg though, was that he continually questioned their use of signal. I mean, why wouldn't they use it?
They could try to develop their own secure messaging app, but what would be the point of that when another already exists and they can verify the code is air tight because it's open source. And, developing their own app would mean the possibility of relying on software that could contain unknown bugs or vulnerabilities.
The only safe cryptographic systems are open source ones.
Because they did so to avoid official channels which get log and recorded. And yes, the Pentagon has their own apps, what do you think? Yes, using signal is INSANE
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Are we missing an /s here? Signal is headquartered in the US, and here's me pondering if they were actually using Telegram instead. Which would've been pretty apt.
I think at this point I'd be better off trying to use WeChat.....
edit: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger - archive
For a bit of clarity some are not seeing. Google, sanctioned too. Crazy times.
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jesus christ they're dumber than they look, and this administration already regularly looks like morons.
Yo what the fuck