I think it’s 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.
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Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoWould this be good publicity or had publicity for signal? “Even government officials think we’re secure!” Or “Idiots actually think signal is secure for classified information”
white_nrdy@programming.dev 1 week ago
ChumbleyBumbley@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Signal is very secure, but your encryption doesn’t matter when you add unknown people to your encrypted chats.
It’s like buying the most secure, unpickable door lock and giving the key with the address on it to a complete stranger
Abnorc@lemm.ee 1 week ago
I don’t 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 it’s 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 didn’t write. Signal is also relatively new, and they had to have a way to discuss these things beforehand.
monarch@lemm.ee 1 week ago
They don’t want to comply with government communition laws so they use signal instead.
Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
That’s what Buttigieg indicated. There are secure means of communicating classified information, with a process for ensuring people with clearance are the only ones allowed to view this information. I imagine those rules are in place exactly for this reason, to prevent accidental leaks.
The rookies that Trump hired probably didn’t see the harm in doing it in this way, I mean come on, Signal is secure so what is there to worry about?
Who knows what else has been leaked to the wrong people accidentally.
Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I would have expected the USA to have their own private network for this shit… such a meh nation nowadays
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 1 week ago
Security and messaging is tricky to get right. Government uses a lot of COTS stuff because it’s easier to have someone to sue when shit goes south.
Habahnow@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
They do have ways of talking of classified information. Coincidentally, it is more tedious than using Signal and you are forced to keep records of those conversations, things that these people didn’t want.