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A Pentagon-wide email recently went out warning about Signal's vulnerability

Haha our national security is a joke because dipshit republican hypocrites ****in hate our country! Haha!

honest question - did you know previous administration used Signal app? do you remember any security breaches? Any spy balloons? Chinese smart cars? leaked classified intelligence documents?

anything you can remember ?
 
honest question - did you know previous administration used Signal app? do you remember any security breaches? Any spy balloons? Chinese smart cars? leaked classified intelligence documents?

anything you can remember ?
For giggles I checked. Didn't see anything other than recent claims from Tom Cotton who is as untrustworthy as they come.


While Biden did approve Signal, the app was not authorized for sensitive information, like the Yemen war plans Goldberg said was discussed in the group chat.
 
Democrats should encourage foreign powers to hack the Group chats and release them.

Trumpists are constantly saying Democrats need to change in order to win elections, didn’t hurt Trump, can’t hurt Dems right?
Members of the administration have already lied and said that nothing was classified in the group chats, which means that technically they should be able to be obtained through a foia request by any citizen.
 
honest question - did you know previous administration used Signal app? do you remember any security breaches? Any spy balloons? Chinese smart cars? leaked classified intelligence documents?

anything you can remember ?
No one is saying that no one is allowed to communicate with signal. But you aren't supposed to discuss top secret, classified active war planning information.

Quit trying to defend this or to "what about" this. You can't do it. These ****ing morons are in over their heads AND they don't give a ****. It's a terrible combination.
 
But Hillary sent an email a decade ago, so that makes it ok that they sent oops war plans in advance to the wrong people using AOL instant messanger or whatever.
 

In short, it appears that the Defense Secretary, National Security Advisor, and other cabinet members, including the administration’s two most senior intelligence officials, purposefully chose an unsecure commercial messaging app on their devices to communicate about highly sensitive (and almost certainly classified) matters preceding a military attack in Yemen.
Brian Hughes, the spokesman for the National Security Council, confirmed the authenticity of the Signal message chain to The Atlantic. The following day, Ratcliffe and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard confirmed their participation in the Signal group in a congressional hearing, which had been pre-scheduled to discuss other matters.
Two sets of criminal laws are directly applicable if – and I emphasize, if – The Atlantic’s reported accounts of the Signal group are accurate (notably, there is currently no reason to believe otherwise).

I. Espionage Act – “Gross Negligence” in Mishandling National Defense Information
The most potentially relevant provision of law is 18 U.S.C. 793(f)(1) of the Espionage Act, which proscribes:
II. Destruction of government records
One of the features of the Signal messaging app is the ability of users to set it to automatically delete messages. According to a screenshot made public by Goldberg, some of these messages were set to automatically delete in 4 weeks; and the app shows who decided to change those settings. The Atlantic story also states: “There was another potential problem: Waltz set some of the messages in the Signal group to disappear after one week, and some after four.”
 
One doesn't have to be a tech or security expert to know using a commercial app to communicate sensitive government information is absolutely daft. Apparently some don't and the problem is they're in positions of power.
It’s why there the federal government has it’s encrypted communications systems/processes.
 
Cross Posting
1:25-cv-00883
AMERICAN OVERSIGHT v. HEGSETH

COMPLAINT
1. This action arises from Defendants’ failure to meet their obligations under the
Federal Records Act regarding messages from a group-chat discussion of planned and active
military operations from March 11, 2025, through March 15, 2025, on the messaging application
Signal, which can be set up to automatically delete messages.
2. Plaintiff American Oversight brings this action under the Federal Records Act
(“FRA”), 44 U.S.C. §§ 3101 et seq., and the Administrative Procedure Act (“APA”), 5 U.S.C.
§§ 701 et seq., to prevent the unlawful destruction of federal records and to compel Defendants to
fulfill their legal obligations to preserve and recover federal records created through unauthorized
use of Signal for sensitive national security decision-making.
 
at least someone is being funny about the hysteria ...

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It’s why there the federal government has it’s encrypted communications systems/processes.
Yep, and that information is retained so if it is ever needed for an investigation, it can be recalled and used to that end which ensures transparency within the government. Communications via Signal are not retained and is one of the features of using that kind of encrypted text service.
 
Anyone else, anywhere, except for this administration clown show, would have been fired on the spot.
or run for president and have a shitload of idiot leftists vote for her saying "what difference does it even make......"

Cuz...hypocrites...........
 

"A Pentagon-wide advisory went out one week ago warning against using the messaging app Signal, even for unclassified information.

"A vulnerability has been identified in the Signal messenger application," begins the department-wide email, dated March 18, obtained by NPR.

The memo continues, "Russian professional hacking groups are employing the 'linked devices' features to spy on encrypted conversations." It notes that Google has identified Russian hacking groups who are "targeting Signal Messenger to spy on persons of interest."
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It was revealed, moreover, in today's hearing, that one of the participants in the still-developing scandal, was IN MOSCOW during the discussion and using signal in an unapproved manner.
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"The Pentagon memo adds, "Please note: third-party messaging apps (e.g. Signal) are permitted by policy for unclassified accountability/recall exercises but are not approved to process or store non-public unclassified information."
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In the military, sending classified data over insecure channels is called "slippage" when it's considered minor, but even that can be a career ender for a military officer.

At least as far back as 2023, a DoD memo, also seen by NPR, prohibited use of mobile applications for even "controlled unclassified information," which is many degrees less important than information about on-going military operations.

There's almost no precedent for the heads of Defense, State, Intelligence and National Security to be sharing such sensitive military intelligence in a forum that was known to be unsecured."
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Even though Hegseth never rose above the rank of Major, and didn't complete his military training, even JUNIOR personnel are briefed every year on OPSEC (Operational Security) issues. This would be a career-ender for even a junior officer, and at that level should be an instantly fireable offense.

Here's the thing: this isn't even about Signal.

This is about alarming levels of stupidity for having this chat on anything other than secure government-owned infrastructure.
 
They are using Signal to avoid generating official government records of what they are planning whether it is legal or not.

😃

That's really the only explanation that makes sense. This violates the Presidential Records Act, and while I'm not a lawyer, I'm thinking this simultaneously violates the Federal Record Act as well.

If what I've read and what has been published is accurate, this absolutely should be classified information, but I suppose that's ultimately the President's call. I just can't imagine our intelligence counterparts in Israel, Germany, the UK, Canada, or wherever having a whole hell of a lot of confidence in sharing sensitive information with our confederacy of dunces right now.
 
or run for president and have a shitload of idiot leftists vote for her saying "what difference does it even make......"

Cuz...hypocrites...........
Show me a post of mine where I agreed with that, please.
You see, one can be for what it right without partisan goggles.
 
They are using Signal to avoid generating official government records of what they are planning whether it is legal or not.

😃
I would not doubt it for a millisecond.
 
Show me a post of mine where I agreed with that, please.
You see, one can be for what it right without partisan goggles.
I didnt say you...I said 65,853,514 retarded leftists did. I wont presume that you were one of them.
 
I didnt say you...I said 65,853,514 retarded leftists did. I wont presume that you were one of them.
Growing up, were you constantly called “retarded” by the other kids?

It’s the only logical, but completely unacceptable as an excuse, reason that a grown person would so frequently use the disgraceful antiquated pejorative.
 
or run for president and have a shitload of idiot leftists vote for her saying "what difference does it even make......"

Cuz...hypocrites...........

A world of difference between sending emails on a private server but using government accounts. Not to mention there was no information that was classified. Confidential maybe, but not classified.

The dipshits in question were in the initial stages of discussion of talking about a wide range of sensitive nat-sec issues. They did so on unclass networks and on apps that included members of the national press corps.

Sorry, @VanceMack but you can't unspin the total ****ing stupidity here. Your president. Your administration. The morons you voted for. You, as a retired military guy, know goddamned well that this shit isn't remotely kosher.
 
For giggles I checked. Didn't see anything other than recent claims from Tom Cotton who is as untrustworthy as they come.


Goldberg is as untrustworthy as they come and you want to believe him


The federal office in charge of ensuring cybersecurity at all levels of the government cited the use of encrypted messaging app Signal as a "best practice" for "highly targeted" government officials, the Biden-era document shows.
 
No one is saying that no one is allowed to communicate with signal. But you aren't supposed to discuss top secret, classified active war planning information.

Quit trying to defend this or to "what about" this. You can't do it. These ****ing morons are in over their heads AND they don't give a ****. It's a terrible combination.

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gotta admit , Babylon Bee does have some really funny things
 
appears no classified info was
You don't actually believe that. The journalist that was invited said that they mentioned targets, times, payloads etc. Are you saying the journalist is lying or that these things aren't classified?

And if nothing was classified you would support the journalist releasing the entire group chat correct?
 
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