Signal also features auto-delete for messages. They chose not to communicate through secure channels, and are actively trying to keep their shit out of the permanent record. These fucks are actively evading paper trails and transcripts because they know full-well how indefensible their crimes are.
Would this be good publicity or had publicity for signal?
âEven government officials think weâre secure!â
Or
âIdiots actually think signal is secure for classified informationâ
I donât doubt Signal per se, but I am surprised that government officials would use it to discuss military plans. I would have thought the government would use something developed by the military just to be sure that itâs safe.
Sure, they can vet the source code, but it seems more straightforward for the government to develop their own app than create a team to vet the security if something that they didnât write. Signal is also relatively new, and they had to have a way to discuss these things beforehand.
I think itâs gonna end up being bad. Mainly because most people are gonna hear on Fox News that this was due to some flaw in Signal, and just take that at face value. A lot of people are not gonna even read an article about why or what even happened.
Bunnylux@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
It was signal
white_nrdy@programming.dev â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Just wanna be clear that this didnât happen because of some technical flaw/vulnerability in Signal. This was completely Human Error
KreekyBonez@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Signal also features auto-delete for messages. They chose not to communicate through secure channels, and are actively trying to keep their shit out of the permanent record. These fucks are actively evading paper trails and transcripts because they know full-well how indefensible their crimes are.
Habahnow@sh.itjust.works â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Would this be good publicity or had publicity for signal? âEven government officials think weâre secure!â Or âIdiots actually think signal is secure for classified informationâ
ChumbleyBumbley@lemm.ee â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Signal is very secure, but your encryption doesnât matter when you add unknown people to your encrypted chats.
Itâs like buying the most secure, unpickable door lock and giving the key with the address on it to a complete stranger
Abnorc@lemm.ee â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I donât doubt Signal per se, but I am surprised that government officials would use it to discuss military plans. I would have thought the government would use something developed by the military just to be sure that itâs safe.
Sure, they can vet the source code, but it seems more straightforward for the government to develop their own app than create a team to vet the security if something that they didnât write. Signal is also relatively new, and they had to have a way to discuss these things beforehand.
Siegfried@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I would have expected the USA to have their own private network for this shit⌠such a meh nation nowadays
white_nrdy@programming.dev â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I think itâs gonna end up being bad. Mainly because most people are gonna hear on Fox News that this was due to some flaw in Signal, and just take that at face value. A lot of people are not gonna even read an article about why or what even happened.
Habahnow@sh.itjust.works â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Just a heads-up that this double posted
Habahnow@sh.itjust.works â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Thanks I deleted it. Not certain how that happened.
cyborganism@lemmy.ca â¨3⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Ah ok. Thanks! :)