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• Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  -or- because they have been intentionally avoiding record preservation requirements.

  It’s this one

  dipshits didn’t choose it for being the right tool for the job here, as it certainly is not.

  It was, actually. If they weren’t dipshits it wouldn’t have been a problem.

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  • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Signal, on your personal device, is fine for personal use. It is absolutely not fine for classified communication as the VP or head of DoD, as there are billions of dollars dedicated to compromising your phone.

    The encryption doesn’t mean shit if they breach an endpoint or account.

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    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      That’s absolutely correct. Everyone seems to fixate on the encryption, but hackers are lazy and they’ll attack whatever is weakest. In this case that means the storage on the phone after it’s decrypted.

      Don’t store classified information on your phone, regardless of what you use to transmit it.

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      • brucethemoose@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Or better yet, do whatever the heck security experts tell you to do. I can only imagine what’s standard procedure for the president’s cabinet.

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• sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It’s not the right tool for their job but still a good tool for the laws they were trying to break…

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• ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I wholeheartedly agree the White House is full of morons. I was just saying that Signal is a solid app to me to securely share bullshit with my family. Its definitely not the right tool for government officials to use. But its plenty safe for sharing memes and pics of my dog.

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