Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer.
  • KbSez@piefed.socialEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The main reason for this is to avoid any digital paper trail. The whole thing is to do one thing: not leave anything that can be subpoenaed or have a FOIA filing against.

    He is hiding what he is doing just like the rest of the trump regime.

    • D_C@lemm.ee
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      8 months ago

      Ok, it may be breaking a law or two but, BUT, can any of you name a better way to get top secret and sensitive info to Russia in a quicker and easier way? Hmm, can you?

    • LupusBlackfur@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      Aaannd…

      I believe it was Hagfish himself that declared (early in the conversation) “We are currently clean on OPSEC”…

      And again, later in the convo: “But, we can easily pause. And if we do, I will do all we can to enforce 100 percent OPSEC.”…

      WHEN HE WAS THE ONE THAT ACTUALLY SUBVERTED OPSEC BEFORE THE CHAT EVEN STARTED.

      Fuck, this guy is as dumb a dumb ass as dumb asses get… 🙄 🤡 🤦‍♀️ 🖕 🖕

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        8 months ago

        This is what happens when an idiotic washed-up game show host selects his cabinet from watching (actual) fake news outlets and thinking their hosts would be so totally awesome in their given roles…

  • rpa@europe.pub
    3·
    8 months ago

    Somewhat of a click-bait headline and article.

    By itself, Signal is one of the most secure communications software, it is encrypted point to point with a different cypher per message and the cyphers are already prepared to withstand quantum processing.

    The issue is not Signal, is the fact this moron was circumventing security measures as member of the government.

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      8 months ago

      Plus, Signal may be secure, but is the rest of his phone? What about the phones of the people he sends top secret battle plans to?

      What else is this dumb ass running? Tik Tok? Temu?

      Random journalists are the least of his worries. Hostile governments have got his communications before his phone has even had a chance to beep.

    • Lasherz@lemmy.worldM
      2·
      8 months ago

      Well, the issue isn’t Signal being bad, it’s a government official who violates FOIA requirements because apparently what he says is too damning to be scrutinized.

  • jagged_circle@feddit.nlEnglish
    11·
    8 months ago

    That doesn’t make any sense

    The purpose of using client side encryption is to make it so you dont have to trust the internet connection itself.

    • Optional@lemmy.world
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      8 months ago

      I mean - just because he’s doling out classified information into an unsecured line with his personal signal account in the most spied-on building in the most spied-on town in the world, I’d be surprised if he wasn’t being passed around all the big dictatorships.

      Like a broken slot machine, he just keeps paying out.

    • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      8 months ago

      That was a woman we are talking about. And a Democrat. Also, she was being trashed for decades up until that point by the orchestrated Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.

      So that’s different. IOKIYAR.