U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

By Jeffrey Goldberg

  • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    3 days ago

    The headquarters are irrelevant. Signal is open source. Its academically dishonest to say they are insecure without pointing to why in the source.

    • zalgotext@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      3 days ago

      Eh, I think that in the context handling classified information, it’s fair to say Signal is “insecure”, purely because anyone with a phone number can have an account, and can be accidentally added to sensitive conversations.

      You know, like the exact thing that happened in this article.

      Not that that’s Signal’s fault. But the fact that it’s even possible makes Singnal unusable for handling classified information.

      • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        3 days ago

        Fair, but that is not what the comment I am replying to is saying. They are saying Signal is compromised for being based in the US.

    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
      3·
      3 days ago

      Russia has been sending out specially crafted QR code in phishing attempts. The codes use the Linked Devices feature of Signal. If they can get one of these idiots to scan the code, the hacker’s device will be copied in on all the user’s messages. Now, given how stupid the people in this administration are, how hard do you think it will be, or more likely, how hard it was to to get them to scan such a code?

    • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idEnglish
      11·
      3 days ago

      The headquarters are irrelevant.

      Is it?

      Is that why people trying to protect their privacy use VPN’s/DNS resolvers outside of the US jurisdiction such as Mullvad/Quad9 etc?

      And as stated by someone else if you’re using a personal device with a phone number to share classified information outside of a SCIF, you’ve got to ask yourself if there’s a modicum of “sensibility” in the administration here.

      • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        If the data you transmit is properly encrypted it does not matter where it passed and where it is.

        you’ve got to ask yourself if there’s a modicum of “sensibility” in the administration here.

        That is independent of what I am saying about Signal

        • ladfrombrad 🇬🇧@lemdro.idEnglish
          1·
          3 days ago

          It does when you’re sharing nationally classified information with what is a third party, not sanctioned by the administration itself?