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It also means it was happening on personal devices, since Signal can't be installed on govt issued phones

raventhon

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theatlantic.comHere Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on SignalThe administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlantic’s editor in chief.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... Wow, these are... really bad.

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Yeah, having it on Signal is incredibly deliberate. Hard to FOIA request anything on Signal. It's great to know that foreign governments will likely have more access to this information than the US.

i know that this whole situation is so fucked up that it's impossible to count the ways that it is fucked up, but even a message to a signal chat that says "hey, check your high-side inboxes for our war plans" would be a huge problem, much less just PASTING THE WAR PLANS.

also, if these people successfully lie themselves out of trouble for this i will be so mad. even as someone who hates the current administration, and the US military-industrial complex that I am complicit in, I believe that "giving our enemies our war plans" is *still a bad thing for the world*.

I basically had to *fly to DC* at some point so I could tell some people who worked on classified information to upgrade from Firefox 1.5 to Firefox 2.0 in order to use the product we were selling them. Because they couldn't just hop on a call to talk about it, because of FUCKING SECURITY CONCERNS.

while that story is ridiculous, it illustrates the point that operational information security for people who work with classified / national defense material has REALLY STRICT RULES and like every military rule, it's written in the blood of the people who broke it in the past. treasonous fucks.

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