…we’ve all violated national security oaths and SCIF protocol?..yeah, no…
What the fuck headline is that. No, we haven’t done that, because we’re careful about that shit.
Trying to fucking normalize this, complicit media bitch. What a shit article.
uh no i’ve never accidentally added a journalist to a group chat while laughing about bombing people in the middle east.
You gotta admit, though, that 11-year-old boy might make a good Secretary of Defense after this one.
!That’s why the Trump administration’s Signalgate blunder was all anyone could talk about on news shows and social media, in workplaces, even in schools, said New York University psychology professor Tessa West.
Even West’s 11-year-old son came home from school Monday and confessed that he, too, had once added the wrong person to a group chat. “Mommy I did that, I did exactly what those Trump people did,” he told her.
“For 11-year-old boys, this is the most relatable thing that the Trump administration has done, which just shows you just how ubiquitous this experience is from Slack channels to group chats,” West said. “We’ve all done this.”!<
What a trash article. It reads like propaganda. This kind of reporting is frustrating. Framing a serious security breach—like the Trump administration’s Signal group chat blunder—as relatable because “even an 11-year-old has done it” feels disingenuous at best. Using a child’s anecdote to soften the impact of a significant government mistake trivializes the issue and distracts from the consequences of the breach.
We’re not talking about accidentally texting the wrong person in a school group chat. We’re talking about high-level officials mistakenly including someone in a discussion tied to sensitive military operations. That’s not “relatable”—that’s a failure in operational security, and it deserves scrutiny, not spin.
We’re also talking about high-level people illegally using a non-qualified app to avoid federal record keeping laws.
signalgate blunder
Can we fucking not add “-gate” to the end of everything that happens? It’s so overused that it diminishes the importance of actually-dangerous events like this one.
It all started with that Watergategate scandal.
What happens if we have a scandal about water?
Hydrogate
Rolls off the tongue better than aquagate would, that’s for sure.
Avoiding hackneyed terms would literally be a Game Changer!
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I might even bomb Yemen next month… I mean I’m not going to tell a reporter about it, though, I’m not as stupid as an 11-year-old boy.
I can’t think of a time when I added the wrong person to a group chat. I’m sure it’s happened, but probably not in the past 10-15 years.
And my online chats are pretty low-stakes, so it’s not like I’m trying very hard.
A few friends of mine used to have a sms-based group chat we used for many years. One of those friends kept losing phones and getting new numbers. At some point one of his older numbers texted something to the tune of “what the fuck is this, why are you texting me?!”. It turns out the old number had been reassigned.
then again, no state secrets were exchanged.
I’m not the first guy who fell in love with a girl he met in a restaurant…
who then turned out to be the daughter of a kidnapped scientist…
only to lose her to her childhood lover…
who she’d last seen on a deserted island…
and who turned out, 15 years later, to be the leader of the French underground.That sounds like some Kojima level shit right there. Just needs a giant mech threatening a nuclear strike.
“Skeet Surfing” is my jam.
One of Mel Tormé’s best songs.
We’ve all screwed up on a text message.
We haven’t all chosen to use an insecure app for sensitive military operations to avoid foia requests to hide future treason charges and then screwed up a text message.
Signal is fine
Users are the weakest link
Just to clarify, signal is open source and it’s code has been vetted by cryptography experts. The signal protocol is secure, it’s the user who screwed up.
Now that doesn’t excuse the illegal action of using the app to avoid foia requests, but the app and it’s protocol were not the failing here.
My understanding is that it auto deletes after a short set time. I’m not saying signal is a failure of an app for personal use, I’m saying choosing it for this purpose is a fail.
You can set it up to auto delete, but that’s not the default. Either way agreed, it’s a major failing in this purpose.
Sorry but you don’t get to have something you do be “relatable” after you’ve tried to end somebody’s career over a milder version of it.
It is relatable when it’s your friends and family. When it’s your work, especially secure work, there are no excuses. It’s why organizations hire specialists to manage this sort of thing.
I don’t think we’ve all shared details of classified military operations in real time actually, that’s pretty much just a US government official thing.
That didn’t happen. And if it did, it wasn’t that bad. And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
Up next: And if it is, that’s not my fault. And if it was, I didn’t mean it. And if I did, you deserved it.
The narcissist prayer, AKA Trump cabinet’s mantra
Wow. USA today is complete Nazi propaganda good to know
