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Pro: People learn about Signal Con: People learn about Signal in the context of a leak
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"House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) offered more of a defensive response, arguing that the administration "has acknowledged it was a mistake."" THEY LITERALLY DIDN'T. You have one of the guys from the chats saying 'look how insightful this chat is we demonstrated impeccable leadership and no one was hurt (because the journalist was legit and didn't offer the info to America's enemies'
Heh. Same happened in Sweden some time back, but on a less serious issue, where a journalist was invited to a emergency meeting for the Liberal party over Signal.
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Oh Im sorry, I thought you all quit.
Guy sold have kept quiet and just relayed everything straight to Yemen.
Sure. Outraged over an inadvertent leak, but totally fine arming a country committing genocide, trying to strong-arm the victim of relentless aggression into giving up 1/5th of it's territory, letting disease spread freely in the nation, detaining people without charges, kidnapping people off the streets and deporting then to violent foreign prisoners without due process, weakening our defense industry, alienating every ally and partner we have on the planet, threatening to annex countries, starting trade wars, taking away women's healthcare, threatening the most vulnerable members of society, etc etc etc. All that other stuff is fine, but sure, let's raise holy hell over an inadvertent leak.
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If (isConservative(fuckwad) === true) then "totally okay" else "not okay at all, impeach, repeal, reject";
~~"Non-secure systems" uh. No. Systems that aren't in the US control is what you mean.~~
As @[email protected] pointed out, Signal is insecure as in the access to the message wasn't controlled. It's like stripping naked in front of an open window with the lights on in your house. Yeah, technically, you are inside your home where it's private. But if you aren't pulling the shades everyone gonna see it
given that signal is what the us authorities encouraged citizens to use for privacy i assume that they do in fact have back door access to whatever they want
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Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) criticized the use of non-secure systems, warning that adversaries like Russia and China could exploit it.
The singular problem with Americans doing a holocaust abroad is that another country might find out about it in advance.
I mean, just think for a minute. What if we wanted to bomb a Russian orphanage or a Chinese university? They could take advantage of our data insecurity to thwart us!
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) condemned the administration’s mishandling of classified information, saying it endangers national security.
We're carpet bombing people on the other side of the fucking planet. This is so far outside the scope of "national security".
Absolute Ghoul Nation.
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This is surprisingly a middle ground. I've been seeing people on the right just as pissed off about this. They have a point too in that there can be two truths here.
He could have leaked information and needs to be held accountable.
The claim that the information leaked as stated can be exaggerated.
Just be careful out there that they don't rope you into looking like idiots by being over dramatic.
Beyond stupid, can you imagine how hard Putin is laughing at the 34 count felon right now?
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) condemned it with the words "Nerf THIS!"
So we are more worried about the privacy communications instead of how we are bombing Yemen. Great. Fantastic.
Everyone there should lose their security clearance and be fired for such an egregious lack of OpSec.
Lawmakers from bOtH pArTiEs
Reminder that Don Bacon barely won NE-2, a purple district that went for Harris, and shouldn't be used as an example when citing Congressional Republican outrage, because they're not actually outraged.
It's amusing watching Free Republic go hmm, errr, Atlantic = North Korea, err, fuck this is bad.
Any republican party member who stands up for this will be threatened with having their seat put up to a primary challenge. This is just a fact.
Remember, whatever the administration says can only be interpreted by fact by anyone who is part of the party. If you aren't in line you aren't in the party.
The undesirables will be shipped off to a camp far from the public's eye and shaven, beaten and humiliated.