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“That is, the most likely reason why Trump’s entire national security team was using an insecure platform to plan war strikes was to ensure there were no embarrassing records for posterity, a violation of the law.”

👆 Folks, I’m seeing more of this lately so please, stop. Understand what you’re taking about before spouting off. Signal *is* a secure platform and peddling nonsense like this is only going to make people less secure if they believe it and stop using it. What it can’t do is protect you if you’re clueless enough to add someone to your *secure* conversation who shouldn’t be there.

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#signal #USA #fascism #misinformation


Seven Reasons Trump's Entire National Security Team Should Resign in Disgrace - emptywheel

It's not just that Mike Waltz accidentally added the wrong person to a Signal chat, the cover story Trump has adopted. Trump's entire national security team was witness to an egregious breach that might be a crime. All should resign in disgrace.
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#Signal #USA #misinformation #fascism
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brunoc
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brunoc
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But people who don't know what they're talking about authoritatively peddling nonsense is the cornerstone of journalism! The Gell-Mann amnesia effect depends on it!
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Sean O'Brien
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Sean O'Brien
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The problem Aral is that US news is *searching hard* to demonstrate phishing attacks, keylogging, and backdoors / OS malware as somehow issues with #signal. Just saw an NBC piece that was atrocious where they blamed bogus QR codes as somehow a Signal problem. They'll find #infosec people to either scramble the facts or talk about phishing and be taken out of context.
#Signal #infosec
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Sue
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that looks like something Marcy wheeler posted and she generally knows her subject matter. She wasn’t dissing signal, she was explaining that not using sanctioned us government communications circumvented record keeping and makes fulfilling freedom of information requests avoidable.