I think itâs 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 â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠agoWould this be good publicity or had publicity for signal? âEven government officials think weâre secure!â Or âIdiots actually think signal is secure for classified informationâ
white_nrdy@programming.dev â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
ChumbleyBumbley@lemm.ee â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Signal is very secure, but your encryption doesnât matter when you add unknown people to your encrypted chats.
Itâs like buying the most secure, unpickable door lock and giving the key with the address on it to a complete stranger
Abnorc@lemm.ee â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I donât 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 itâs 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 didnât write. Signal is also relatively new, and they had to have a way to discuss these things beforehand.
monarch@lemm.ee â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
They donât want to comply with government communition laws so they use signal instead.
Habahnow@sh.itjust.works â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Thatâs 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 didnât 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 â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
I would have expected the USA to have their own private network for this shit⌠such a meh nation nowadays
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Security and messaging is tricky to get right. Government uses a lot of COTS stuff because itâs easier to have someone to sue when shit goes south.
Habahnow@sh.itjust.works â¨4⊠â¨weeks⊠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 didnât want.