The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

By Jeffrey Goldberg

    • HellieSkellie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 days ago

      No matter what the protocol is, the chat is completely vulnerable once a single chat member’s phone gets infiltrated. There’s not a set of higher value targets in the world than the US president and his cabinet for actors like China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and even Israel.

      There is a reason national defense related discussion is meant to happen exclusively on a locked-down High-Side network, on exclusively locked-down High-Side equipment that exists exclusively in locked-down High-Side locations.

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        8 days ago

        No shit. I was just correcting them on the confidently incorrect assumption they made without even skimming the article.

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      7 days ago

      I did read the article but saw several mentions of texting, I was under the impression Signal was just another texting app.

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        7 days ago

        You know sms is a type of texting but you don’t know Signal? Interesting. It’s an end to end encrypted chat app.