• @MyOpinion@lemm.ee
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    21 month ago

    Sounds like this needs to be a daily headline. Anything that makes the Orange Turd uncomfortable is a good thing.

  • @SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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    If it could be broken so easily then WTF is your administration using it in the first place, dumbass.

    Deny, deflect, diffuse. That’s all they do. Lie, lie, lie. Anything to avoid any kind of accountability.

    • @ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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      31 month ago

      They want an encrypted comms channel they can invite any of their oligarch friends into. There is no encryption strong enough to solve the problem with this premise.

  • Elbow
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    2081 month ago

    If the app is defective, then that’s on the Trump admin for using it to communicate sensitive information.

    • @TheFogan@programming.dev
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      571 month ago

      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.

      • Monkey With A Shell
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        71 month ago

        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.

      • @loutr@jlai.lu
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        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, …

        • AmidFuror
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          When someone fires rockets at you, you should either give them what they want so they stop or ignore it.

          • @deltapi@lemmy.world
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            11 month ago

            I don’t know why you’re being downvoted.

            My neighbor throws rocks at my house because he wants me to move my fence and give him an extra 6" of backyard. I just ignore him and nothing bad has happened beyond needing to replace my bathroom window twice.

            Ignore or give them what they want has worked well for me.

            • AmidFuror
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              11 month ago

              I suspect some downvoted because they thought I was being sarcastic, while others downvoted because they thought I was being genuine.

        • @TheFogan@programming.dev
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          131 month ago

          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)

  • @thallamabond@lemmy.world
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    Pentagon-wide advisory sent to staffers on March 18 — less than a week before the screwup went public — explicitly warned against using Signal for any sharing of information, classified or not.

    The advisory claimed that a “vulnerability has been identified in the Signal messenger application,” and that Russian hacking groups were “targeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest” (a Signal spokesperson told NPR that the company wasn’t “aware of any vulnerabilities or supposed ones that we haven’t addressed publicly.”)

    https://futurism.com/the-byte/pentagon-issued-warning-signal-messaging

  • @Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world
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    That didn’t happen.

    And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

    And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

    And if it is, that’s not my fault. <- You are here

    And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

    And if I did, you deserved it.

    • TooManyFoods
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      161 month ago

      You fool he’s playing two of these steps at once. Both step 4 and step 1. Still claiming it was a “witch hunt” while also making it not his fault. 100 quadtrabillion IQ (a very object way to measure intellect) move you liberal/LEFTIST/sjw wokie. Check mate, and GOOOOOOOOAAALLL. Hahahaha.

      I’m so sorry.

        • TooManyFoods
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          51 month ago

          I obviously only forgot because the DEI hire I hired the last time he was president didn’t sit behind me reminding me, which is Joe Biden’s fault. Whoever the 45th president was obviously screwed up the deal.

    • @nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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      61 month ago

      In this case Trump doesn’t use computers, doesn’t know how to use a smartphone, probably doesn’t know what an app is or what open source means or what end-to-end encryption means. So basically be has no conceptual basis to even form a passable understanding of what this scandal is about, let alone form a coherent opinion, and he probably lost patience early on when someone tried to explain it to him.