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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I would have expected the USA to have their own private network for this shit… such a meh nation nowadays

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  • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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• Abnorc@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • Habahnow@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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.

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  • monarch@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They don’t want to comply with government communition laws so they use signal instead.

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