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

  • 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?