One of the most basic tenets of cybersecurity is that you must “consider your threat model” when trying to keep your data and your communications safe, and then take appropriate steps to protect yourself.
This means you need to consider who you are, what you are talking about, and who may want to know that information (potential adversaries) for any given account, conversation, etc. The precautions you want to take to protect yourself if you are a random person messaging your partner about what you want to eat for dinner may be different than those you’d want to take, if, hypothetically, you are the Secretary of Defense of the United States or a National Security Advisor talking to top administration officials about your plans for bombing an apartment building in Yemen.
This is one of the greatest headlines in the history of journalism.
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Your threat model is being authoritarian + a moron.
They’re using Signal instead of official channels because they don’t want their conversations documented for accountability.
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
He was running better OPSEC than the morons in charge.
marlowe221@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Well, the bar was low…
T156@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Although that may have had him arrested/raided for accessing most secret information he lacks clearance for, so leaving upon finding out it was the real thing and not a joke group was the better move.
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
He didn’t “access” anything, it was sent directly to him.
ansiz@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The reporter is a former IDF soldier, there is no way he would face any real blowback from Trump. There is a reason they had his number to add to the group and it’s because they were already feeding him information. The Atlantic is just a left coded mouthpiece for the State Department.