Summary
Trump appointed Elon Musk, head of the DOGE, to investigate how a journalist was accidentally added to a Signal chat discussing military operations in Yemen.
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz admitted fault but could not explain how the contact was saved. Trump speculated that the journalist may have added himself.
The investigation will involve Musk’s technical team, the National Security Council, and White House lawyers.
A federal lawsuit challenges the use of Signal for government communication, alleging it violates federal law.
You investigate the massive security breach with an even bigger security breach?
Tom Clancys Rotating Coffin Turbine Power Generation - may he rotate in peace - is going to need to upgrade the lines.
He’s unqualified, but at this point I’m surprised they didn’t assign the case to a cactus named detective pokey.
‘first buddy’ ( ° ͜ʖ͡°)╭∩╮
Haha! WTF! It’s a group chat in a messaging app - not some super high tech hacking operation!
Yeah, it’s just a case of a boomer not knowing how to use their fucking phone.
Hey! I’m a Boomer, and I can use my phone very well, thank you very much. Don’t blame it on him being a Boomer, blame it on him for the REAL reason - he’s just virtuosically stupid, like every one of them on those texts (except the journalist).
Considering what these people are like, it may very well be the entire dark net.
I dare say I’m beginning to suspect this Trump fellow may not be as competent as he claims
No! Rilly?
Help, help! Someone call Dunning-Kruger Man! Please, Dunning-Kruger Man, confidently tell us it’s someone else’s fault without actually understanding anything! Hurry, we’re trapped in this news cycle with no way out!
So next time it will be fucked up all the same, but using X private messages instead of Signal.
That should do!
Elon is turning into the Jared Lushner of this second term.
This is actually good news. We knew there was never going to be a valid investigation anyway, so at least this forces the MuskRat to waste at least a portion of his resources on this cover-up. He’ll also certainly violate a few laws while doing it, so when they finally lose power, we can slam him with those charges as well, and lock him up for longer, and fine his estate another several billion in fines and damages.
I don’t have any faith whatsoever that, if we can oust the fascists from power, they’ll face any consequences at all. There will be no Nuremberg trials this time. They’re more likely to just get voted back in.
No, not the next time. If we manage to wrest power from them again, it won’t be with the current bunch of weak, spineless weenies that comprise the current Dem leadership, like that fucking scumbag Chuck Schumer.
Our liberators will be a new guard of Democrats, who are fucking pissed off as Hell, and it will be their pledge to purge MAGA from our government and our country by any means necessary, that gives them power. They will take power knowing they are expected to punish the MAGA Traitors to Hell and back, and they’ll do it.
Here’s hopin’!
Just wait till Leon assigns Big Balls to the case – they’ll get to the bottom of this in a flash
How about investigating why they were using signal and not all in prison for it.
OK… so you want to say he added himself… which let’s ignore that you can’t do that, but say you can. Then why are they using this app? Basically saying national security measures out in the public. That’s not a better look.
“Elon Musk has offered to put his technical experts on this to figure out how this number was inadvertently added to the chat. Again, to take responsibility and ensure this can never happen again.”
Take responsibility? That would be unprecedented.
This is going to turn into a privacy issue with signal not Zapp Brannigan giving the codes away.
Trump speculated that the journalist may have added himself.
You can’t even do that on Signal! But MAGAts will eat it up and keep repeating it cuz of how dumb they are.
You know what you can do? Anyone can add to a group their in. At least from what I’ve seen. Secure for govy talk for sure.
There’s a setting for that. It’s open invite or admin invite. Default is open invite.
Doubtful any of the participants knew that, though.
Marco Rubio added another account of his in the screenshots, so that was not disabled.
Also of nitee is the “Waltz added you to the group” line. Unless The Atlantic modified the screenshot, then we know exactly what happened.
signal group chats can have admins and users. admins are able to control access to the group.
signal is a social communication network. yes, when everything works well and people dont screw up, its wonderfully private and secure - one of the best and easiest to use secure social communication tools around.
the real issue is… these idiots used it (probably from their personal phones!) like it was NSA approved tech. lead idiot hegseth being all “opsec is clean” while an unknown participant has been added to the group chat is just… I have no words. these people are playing dressup.
signal on an uncompromised device and with decent digital hygiene will keep a whole bunch of people and TLAs out of your business. however, I do not expect the US Govt planing military fucking strikes via signal just so the “principals” can conveniently sip drinks by the pool instead of being in an NSA approved communication facility.
seriously, fuck!
Oh yeah they are boys playing men. It’s some wild shit to see.
With the MAGAts its best to imagine a very low bar, then lower that again by half the amount and thats where they are in terms of how dumb they are.
“Think of the most average person you know, and then realize that
half of all people are dumber than thatevery one of these morons has the collective IQ of a carrot.”
Ok let’s suppose you could though. Wouldn’t that make it EVEN MORE criminally negligent to discuss classified info there?
Right??? Like oh my actual god, if a journalist could do this (it’s completely, categorically impossible), then every nation-state on Earth would use it to trivially eavesdrop.
Yeah, this would make the story exponentially worse. It’d be like if you got caught cheating on your wife and went "whoa calm down! I didn’t know that woman, she just showed up to my Friday night gang bang unannounced!”
exactly. I use and love signal. its a fantastic privacy tool - seriously! but the amount of pure stupid on display by this administration is just too much to take.
Why would they discuss classified military plans on an app where outsiders could just “add themselves”. That argument isn’t helping their case…
Nevermind. I need to stop thinking about things. The sheer stupidity hurts my brain.
It seems like their best argument is that they are incredibly stupid, and a smart reporter took advantage of them.
@barneypiccolo @Bamboodpanda really gives you confidence that they all know what they’re doing in the databases to make sure “everything’s computer” in the federal agencies
We’re supposed to think “he (the journalist) is so bad and evil he hacked into the secure platform” — not that that helps their case either.
“Hold my unlocked phone while I chug this beer!”
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