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"We don’t know what pressure the Trump administration is using to make intelligence services fall into line, but it isn’t crazy to worry that the NSA might again start monitoring domestic communications.

Because of the Signal chat leak, it’s less likely that they’ll use vulnerabilities in Signal to do that. Equally, bad actors such as drug cartels may also feel safer using Signal. Their security against the US government lies in the fact that the US government shares their vulnerabilities. No one wants their secrets exposed.

I have long advocated for a "defense dominant" cybersecurity strategy. As long as smartphones are in the pocket of every government official, police officer, judge, CEO, and nuclear power plant operator—and now that they are being used for what the White House now calls calls "sensitive," if not outright classified conversations among cabinet members—we need them to be as secure as possible. And that means no government-mandated backdoors.

We may find out more about how officials—including the vice president of the United States—came to be using Signal on what seem to be consumer-grade smartphones, in a apparent breach of the laws on government records. It’s unlikely that they really thought through the consequences of their actions.

Nonetheless, those consequences are real. Other governments, possibly including US allies, will now have much more incentive to break Signal’s security than they did in the past, and more incentive to hack US government smartphones than they did before March 24.

For just the same reason, the US government has urgent incentives to protect them."

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Schneier on Security · The Signal Chat Leak and the NSA - Schneier on SecurityUS National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who started the now-infamous group chat coordinating a US attack against the Yemen-based Houthis on March 15, is seemingly now suggesting that the secure messaging service Signal has security vulnerabilities. "I didn’t see this loser in the group," Waltz told Fox News about Atlantic editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, whom Waltz invited to the chat. "Whether he did it deliberately or it happened in some other technical mean, is something we’re trying to figure out." Waltz’s implication that Goldberg may have hacked his way in was followed by a ...
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YES, YOU *KNEW* THEIR #SignalChat debacle probably wasn't the first time The #KeystoneKabinet used the publicly-available #Signal software to discuss #NationalSecurity matters...

...and you were right. 🤦‍♂️

PLUS...

Sec #KegBreath brings his wife to #NATO meetings, hired his podcasting younger brother to escort deportees, and hired his personal lawyer to be an attache'.
#DisasterPresidency #TooStupidForOffice
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MSNBC · Fresh from scandal over group chat attack plans, Hegseth's conduct opens him to ridiculeBy MSNBC

In the latest episode of #IanAndJaySpaceOut, @jay & I accidentally add all of you to our super secret #Signal chat where we discuss our war plan to feed far-left propaganda to radical activists in hopes of inspiring them to firebomb #Tesla dealerships around the world.

Also, people who drive Cybertrucks can't park for shit.

#BanDolan

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