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[–] [email protected] 128 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Each individual piece is damning, let alone the whole thing.

Using a random chat app for your war plans. Accidentally adding a random civilian. The bizarre rage over Europe. The intentional withholding of information from Trump by his cabinet and VP. The comment about how Trump's actions do not align with his actual messaging, implying it's just impulsive bullshit. The way Hegseth speaks like a drunken uncle on Facebook.

Just traitorous dipshits the whole way down.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Its not a random app. It has disappearing messages and is outside the other means of communication that are saved and documented. This is not the only chat group on Signal, I'd wager.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

exactly. signal was chosen precisely because it is widely considered to be secure and, more importantly, outside the purview of any mechanism which would hold them to account.

This is not the only chat group on Signal, I'd wager.

absolutely.

still, this is a reasonable boost for signal and briar (or similar) as a backup.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Reasonably secure for the average consumer, not for intelligence work.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

oh, agreed. these people should have been nowhere near it - as evidenced by their incredible fuckup.

as an average consumer, and barring binary or device compromise, I do trust signal and a few others to traffic info that could incarcerate or worse.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

To be fair, it’s also not secure for the average consumer, if they accidentally add a journalist to their gc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Intelligence work also requires intelligence. These people would be using AOL Messenger if it were 2005.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Words make you a slave.

This administration wants to be a slave to its own words.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's ironic they slammed Goldberg when apparently he's going to win the Pulitzer.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It's wild to me as an old techie that they would be using cell phones for this kind of communication at all since mistypes and errors from typing too fast are so common on virtual keyboards.

If I was in such a situation I would feel it was almost necessary to be at a full keyboard as to not make mistakes in communications.

But then again I would also be following federal records retention laws.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

None of the nazis and their sycophants are techies.
Not even President Musk: He can't walk the walk.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Let's not paint them as tech illiterate. That's how you drop your guard.

The same way conservatives believe liberals aren't armed.

These fools werent incompetent because they're Nazis. They're incompetent because they think they're better than everyone else, and they don't need to follow the rules established by others.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

They’re incompetent because they think they’re better than everyone else, and they don’t need to follow the rules established by others.

True, but while that doesn't make them tech-illiterate, it does make them security-illiterate. They think rules around security don't apply to them because they think they're better than others and as such rules shouldn't apply to them. They think of themselves as infallible. To believe so means you have to be illiterate about how security actually functions.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

True, it's just idiot ass normies doing normie things. They'd post it to their Facebook timeline if they could figure out how.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Not just cell phones but personal cell phones. Signal is blocked on federal cell phones.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oy. Gabbard is now trying to claim that it comes pre-installed on government phones. The receipts for that will be interesting if they actually exist.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

They lied and will continue as if nothing has happened. You got the sound bite.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Original Atlantic article

One question I do have is why is the Treasury Secretary there?

I do find it a little funny that the delegates clearly were not delegates in some cases since they state the delegates under the cabinet members name but respond occasionally under their own name.

I think Goldberg should release the phone numbers too since that is not classified info.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Oh man, that link is dead? Or is archive.org having issues?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Psst. Destroying a building to kill one guy is collective punishment on all the building residents and - yes - a war crime.

The proof is in print and, apparently, not classified.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

It's not a war you see, it's a special... military operation? Wait, I think that's copyrighted, shit

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I wonder whether Jeff Bezos was consulted about publishing it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Bezzzos…………

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

Late yesterday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt emailed a response: “As we have repeatedly stated, there was no classified information transmitted in the group chat. However, as the CIA Director and National Security Advisor have both expressed today, that does not mean we encourage the release of the conversation. This was intended to be a an [sic] internal and private deliberation amongst high-level senior staff and sensitive information was discussed. So for those reason [sic] — yes, we object to the release.”

https://www.removepaywall.com/search?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theatlantic.com%2Fpolitics%2Farchive%2F2025%2F03%2Fsignal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg%2F682176%2F

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Lets see how well these knuckleheads have been trained by Moscow. First of all, the blatantly lying yesterday is typical Moscow reaction, because they lie not to deceive you but to insult you. The insulting is already taking place. Also, let's analyze their coming reactions and compare it with this

https://thinktank.4freerussia.org/civil-society/main-features-of-the-russian-mentality/

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Reading these messages, I feel like I'm reading a bunch of immature boys cosplaying war commanders. What a fucking embarrassment!

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

You are reading a bunch of immature boys cosplaying war commanders.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

This is an article about an article. The original Atlantic article that contains the messages themselves is here

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I see one screenshot and the Atlantic article is paywalled.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

He's overdue for a massive coronary.