How is this the first Ryan George GIF I’ve ever seen
Way to normalize a massive failure of leadership and criminal act, USA Today.
Well, the newspaper is certainly living up to its name.
If it’s not a big deal, why were you insisting it was the end of the world when Hillary did it?
Buttery males, though…
What the fuck headline is that. No, we haven’t done that, because we’re careful about that shit.
We have not all done this. We are not all breaking the law and trying to hide our government actions in a group chat.
Agreed. I’m in my 40’s, and in my life I couldn’t do anything wrong. When I was five, I took batteries from a Blockbuster on accident and cried until I returned them in fear of doing something wrong. I can’t understand the idea of not being blunt/honest and spending the extra time to deceive anyone.
I have definitely never sent a text or Signal message to the wrong person or group as well. It’s actually not hard to simply look at the recipient(s) before you compose a message. You even have the opportunity to double-check the message recipient(s) before you hit Send.
I’m gonna be an age-bigot for a moment and say this is mostly a problem for Boomers and Zoomers.
!That’s why the Trump administration’s Signalgate blunder was all anyone could talk about on news shows and social media, in workplaces, even in schools, said New York University psychology professor Tessa West.
Even West’s 11-year-old son came home from school Monday and confessed that he, too, had once added the wrong person to a group chat. “Mommy I did that, I did exactly what those Trump people did,” he told her.
“For 11-year-old boys, this is the most relatable thing that the Trump administration has done, which just shows you just how ubiquitous this experience is from Slack channels to group chats,” West said. “We’ve all done this.”!<
What a trash article. It reads like propaganda. This kind of reporting is frustrating. Framing a serious security breach—like the Trump administration’s Signal group chat blunder—as relatable because “even an 11-year-old has done it” feels disingenuous at best. Using a child’s anecdote to soften the impact of a significant government mistake trivializes the issue and distracts from the consequences of the breach.
We’re not talking about accidentally texting the wrong person in a school group chat. We’re talking about high-level officials mistakenly including someone in a discussion tied to sensitive military operations. That’s not “relatable”—that’s a failure in operational security, and it deserves scrutiny, not spin.
We’re also talking about high-level people illegally using a non-qualified app to avoid federal record keeping laws.
“So I used to be a transgender cabaret host in Berlin circa 1926. Haven’t we all?”
Except my chats are not subject to public records act laws for oversight and public information, so if I choose to keep them off record it’s not illegal.
There was a work chat where people would joke and vent and bitch and complain. Only the lowest level employees were invited. One of my coworkers invited one of the higher ranking employees and all the fun had to stop.
We’ve all screwed up on a text message.
We haven’t all chosen to use an insecure app for sensitive military operations to avoid foia requests to hide future treason charges and then screwed up a text message.
Signal is fine
Users are the weakest link
Just to clarify, signal is open source and it’s code has been vetted by cryptography experts. The signal protocol is secure, it’s the user who screwed up.
Now that doesn’t excuse the illegal action of using the app to avoid foia requests, but the app and it’s protocol were not the failing here.
Wow. USA today is complete Nazi propaganda good to know
…we’ve all violated national security oaths and SCIF protocol?..yeah, no…
He should’ve just jumped in when they were all sending emojis
I did once send a message to the childminder parents group that was meant for my wife. It referenced a porn movie series we watched, called Oil Overload, for which the new one had just come out. I think the message read something like ‘OIL OVERLOAD 14!!! YEEHA’. No one mentioned it, but I’m sure they knew.
I … didn’t realize it went all the way to 17.
#17 actually ties up a lot of lose ends.
