President Donald Trump downplayed the Signal chat leak Wednesday as a "witch hunt" and said, without evidence, that the encrypted messaging app "could be defective" as his administration struggles to stem the fallout.
Yeah, it is defective… or at least not up to the task of security for classified information… not to mention not compliant with record keeping laws, that’s the whole fricking point.
The big play they are trying is to put the emphasis of the fail on adding the journalist… that wasn’t the crime, it was a demonstration of why it is a crime, and it is how he got caught. Using signal for war/attack plans was the crime.
The app itself and its protocol are very secure. It’s no wonder WhatsApp chose to implement it instead of baking their own. The issue here is that Signal is not designed to be used for top secret stuff, where adversaries with practically unlimited resources will specifically target your device. There’s no auditing features, there’s no safeguard if you add a group member by mistake, …
Evidence is out there in the papers and the internet for everyone to see, next they deny the report and the texts are real despite previously acknowledging them and claiming that nothing of importance was discussed.
Well that too, but sadly we are at the point where that is normal and goes back several administrations. The signal usage for military communications reaching public knowledge is something unique to this situation (of which i won’t fully discount the possibility that it may indeed have started prior to this administration)
If the app is defective, then that’s on the Trump admin for using it to communicate sensitive information.
Yes but accountability doesn’t exist for him. Ever. For some fuckin reason.
Yeah, it is defective… or at least not up to the task of security for classified information… not to mention not compliant with record keeping laws, that’s the whole fricking point.
The big play they are trying is to put the emphasis of the fail on adding the journalist… that wasn’t the crime, it was a demonstration of why it is a crime, and it is how he got caught. Using signal for war/attack plans was the crime.
The app itself and its protocol are very secure. It’s no wonder WhatsApp chose to implement it instead of baking their own. The issue here is that Signal is not designed to be used for top secret stuff, where adversaries with practically unlimited resources will specifically target your device. There’s no auditing features, there’s no safeguard if you add a group member by mistake, …
Evidence is out there in the papers and the internet for everyone to see, next they deny the report and the texts are real despite previously acknowledging them and claiming that nothing of importance was discussed.
I would say both of those things are crimes.
The real crime was killing innocent civilians in Yemen but I guess nobody cares.
Well that too, but sadly we are at the point where that is normal and goes back several administrations. The signal usage for military communications reaching public knowledge is something unique to this situation (of which i won’t fully discount the possibility that it may indeed have started prior to this administration)
When someone fires rockets at you, you should either give them what they want so they stop or ignore it.
Precisely!