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Mike Waltz claims ‘full responsibility’ for Signal chat group leaked to journalist

Allan

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These guys look worse and worse.

Waltz struggles to explain what happened but he has Elmo looking into it...

“It’s embarrassing, yes. We’re going to get to the bottom of it,” Waltz said, adding that he was consulting with Elon Musk: “We’ve got the best technical minds looking at how this happened.”
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Later in the interview he suggests Goldberg might have hacked into the text group....

"Of course I didn’t see this loser in the group. It looked like someone else. Whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical mean is something we’re trying to figure out.”
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The most clueless person might still be Donald Trump who at first knew nothing about this, even after the Atlantic story was being widely reported, and now thinks it was a phone call...


Mike Waltz claims ‘full responsibility’ for Signal chat group leaked to journalist

Trump adviser says he can’t explain how Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg’s number was included in the group chat
www.theguardian.com
 
You are ignoring something very important that Waltz said...that the contact in the Signal app had one person's name and, instead of their number, it had that reporter's number. Yes, Waltz is doing the right thing and taking full responsibility for this happening, but he knows HE didn't do that and you can be damned sure he's going to find out who did.

I would hate to be that person.
 
Taking responsibility is a good thing.
 

Mike Waltz claims ‘full responsibility’ for Signal chat group leaked to journalist.​


Has Mike Waltz been charged with any and all appropriate charges for having allowed this leak?

If not, why not?
 
Or….don't use Signal to discuss bombing a country.

Crazy concept. Mind blowing, I’m sure.
 
Thanks for the morning chuckle….
 
BirdinHand said:
Or….don't use Signal to discuss bombing a country.

Crazy concept. Mind blowing, I’m sure.
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The Signal app isn't the problem. It is certified by all the government security agencies as being secure.

The problem is that someone manipulated the app and inserted false contact information into it.

I would hate to be that person. They are about to be in a world of hurt.
 
 
Mike Waltz has "taken" full responsibility for this breech and as such he is who first and foremost needs to be in that proverbial "world of hurt".
 
Allan said:
Just going to make stuff up now are you?
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Nope.

The Trump administration is, right now, engaged in finding out how a contact in the Signal app had one person's name...and Goldberg's number...and finding out who put that manipulated contact in Waltz's computer.
 
LouC said:

Mike Waltz claims ‘full responsibility’ for Signal chat group leaked to journalist.​


Has Mike Waltz been charged with any and all appropriate charges for having allowed this leak?

If not, why not?
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I believe he has.
 
No, no it isn't. The use of signal is the entire problem, not that they embarrassed themselves with an unintentional invite. Commercial apps (ALL OF THEM) are much easier to compromise than government SCIFs and high security communication systems. If our enemies hadn't already hacked signal before this incident, they damn well have now. Then there is the REASON they are using signal. It automatically deletes messages after a short time. We have government record keeping laws which they are intentionally circumventing. It's illegal and corrupt as hell.
 
Mycroft said:
Coldbert can **** off and nobody would care.
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Likewise the clueless and incompetent moron, Gabbard, Trump picked as DNI . It was bad enough when Trump was showing off top secret documentation to all and sundry at Mar-a-Lago, but this is even more serious. Gabbard laughingly claiming that information about attacks, the when and the where, the weaponry to be used, was not classified. You couldn't make it up. It's like a Marx Brothers script without the jokes...
 
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You didn't read the entire article, did you?

The bulletin warned of Russian professional hacking groups employing phishing scams to gain access to encrypted conversations, bypassing the end-to-end encryption the application uses.​

Phishing scams are very common and everyone...whether they are in the government or not...should be aware and not become a victim of the scam. That is what the memo is about.

And Signal points out that their app is not any more susceptible to phishing than any other app.

Signal responded to the bulletin in a social media post Tuesday, saying the NSA's "memo used the term 'vulnerability' in relation to Signal-but it had nothing to do with Signal's core tech. It was warning against phishing scams targeting Signal users."​
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"Phishing isn't new, and it's not a flaw in our encryption or any of Signal's underlying technology," the company said. "Phishing attacks are a constant threat for popular apps and websites."​
 
It is nice to see a claim of taking full responsibility, whatever that ends up meaning.

But it is difficult to overlook both the gross incompetence of all this, as well as how fast MAGAs rush to defend it, all without much effort by those same predictable hateful MAGAs to be thankful to Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic for not immediately releasing what had happened.

And some of those defenders of Lord Trump blaming Goldberg for something someone else in the MAGA camp did is shameful.
 
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