One of the most basic tenets of cybersecurity is that you must “consider your threat model” when trying to keep your data and your communications safe, and then take appropriate steps to protect yourself.
This means you need to consider who you are, what you are talking about, and who may want to know that information (potential adversaries) for any given account, conversation, etc. The precautions you want to take to protect yourself if you are a random person messaging your partner about what you want to eat for dinner may be different than those you’d want to take, if, hypothetically, you are the Secretary of Defense of the United States or a National Security Advisor talking to top administration officials about your plans for bombing an apartment building in Yemen.
Your threat model is being authoritarian + a moron.
They’re using Signal with disappearing messages instead of official channels because they don’t want their conversations documented for accountability. It’s the same shit they relentlessly blasted Hillary for.
I was most disappointed when I read that he left the group chat. Missed opportunity for some top-class trolling:
We are good on OPSEC
Are you really tho? 👀 🥸 😱
He was running better OPSEC than the morons in charge.
Well, the bar was low…
I was most disappointed when I read that he left the group chat. Missed opportunity for some top-class trolling:
Although that may have had him arrested/raided for accessing most secret information he lacks clearance for, so leaving upon finding out it was the real thing and not a joke group was the better move.
He didn’t “access” anything, it was sent directly to him.
Remember when the Governor of Missouri tried to have a guy arrested for notifying the state of Missouri that they had a breach in one of the state websites, making peoples PII publicly visible?
That’s the kind of idiots you’re dealing with here. “We added you to a group chat by mistake and it’s all YOUR fault.”
The reporter is a former IDF soldier, there is no way he would face any real blowback from Trump. There is a reason they had his number to add to the group and it’s because they were already feeding him information. The Atlantic is just a left coded mouthpiece for the State Department.
So your conspiracy is that a left-wing aligned journalist was in the phone of a right-wing politician. Therefore it’s his fault he received the information and shouldn’t have reported it?
Really? Even the flat Earth people would think that’s stupid.
Lol, I didn’t say any of that. But it’s a fact Goldberg has been a mouthpiece for the State department going back to at least the Iraq war in my opinion. He’s not a Trump guy but just doesn’t want to piss off any current administration so he won’t lose his access.
This is one of the greatest headlines in the history of tech journalism.
Its actually perfect. No notes. No possible improvements.
This deserves some kind of award.
MAGA Administration Secure Communication Assessment Procedure:
- Are you Hillary Clinton?
☐ Yes ☐ No
If No, discontinue assessment and do whatever the fuck you want.
- Are you Hillary Clinton?
Military gear generally has tons of anti-moron safeguards. Unfortunately, Signal is for civilians.
Which also means these conversations were on an unapproved app on an unapproved device. Actual government phones wouldn’t be able to get Signal, right?
Government secure phones are special hardware made by the NSA. They are nothing like civilian phones. Obama got the NSA to lock down his Blackberry but I doubt that is doable with today’s mainstream smartphones.
I actually wouldn’t be shocked if it was possible with modern smartphones. A significant amount of money is available to be made from federal security work, and meeting the NSA criteria has benefits that extend to companies that work in the federal security space as well.
The last stu-3 stopped working in 2009.
Yes they have different stuff now, but same idea.
I have a government-issued iPhone. It has Signal on it, and I have access to the appstore. It’s also not allowed to be used for anything but unclassified communication and isn’t permitted inside restricted areas.
about your plans for bombing an apartment building in Yemen.
Then maybe don’t.
Can we just imagine if al Qaeda had added a journalist to their group chat regarding a bombing?
