Funny how the USA went nuts and strong-armed other Western nations to outright ban Chinese hardware and companies due to "security concerns." Yet allowed using a fork of Signal from a foreign nation, and those concerns were nowhere to be found. IOF is already known to be on par (if not better) with the USA in spying on and creating false flags globally. Yet the highest office chose to use it anyway. Which is beyond stupid given that a fork could have been made and ran by a USA company (or the NSA or whichever three letter agency) specifically for the same use. Hell those agencies already are and have been heavily funding the Signal Foundation.
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The concerns are big enough that Waltz is being shunted off to the UN instead of being allowed to stay where he is.
Yet the highest office chose to use it anyway. Which is beyond stupid
Or they don't care because that office is for show and they are kept out of the loop like Musk at SpaceX.
So release the messages. Not that it matters what they said, absolutely nothing will happen except clicks for whoever reports on it.
But her emails!
Buttery Males!
Just remember, no matter what way they spin this, they chose to ignore national security protocols and went out of their way to use an unsecure messaging app. That's the real story. The witch hunt they're undoubtedly going to go on is a perfect opportunity to redirect the public, save face, and further erode our freedoms.
You know, SOP for the whole Trump regime...
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Daily reminder that end to end encryption only works when both ends are secure
Does that include making sure the people using it are not morons
Also reminder, the greatest security vulnerability in every peice of software is the end user
While I agree that social engineering and phishing are a major part of security vulnerabilities, let‘s not diminish the shoddy coding work of many companies out there that try to safe as much money as possible to please their shareholders by leaving out QA and ignoring or even threatening security researchers.
Wow. It's almost like there is a reason that all those annoying OPSEC procedures exist.
We have forked off from the darkest timeline into its stupidest.
I think the darkest timeline and the stupidest merged into one. We get both.
I like that your optimism separated the two
Well it's a fork. So it's technically got all of the darkest timeline up to the point they added the extreme stupidity patch.
There will be a merge PR soon enough.
The fact that we have incompetent evil instead of competent evil is what keeps me getting up to face the day in the morning. These guys having an IQ that could freeze nitrogen means that we, the people, have a slim chance to avoid total annihilation. It could be very much worse than it is.
This way adds the additional danger vector of traumatic brain injury due to repeated and forceful facepalming, but I'd rather that over intelligent evil in the white house. The one saving grace of Trump & Co is that they're all dumb as a box of rocks and are incapable of flexing their power fully. I'm upset that the president of the USA is retarded, but I'm thankful that this president in particular is the retarded one.
What if the president is not the top of the power pyramid but only there for distraction?
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The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked... by the zio company that made it.
Shockingly comes days after the leak that the service is being used by the dork team. Someone really really really wants to get these backups.
Me(deadpan) : Wow, that is surprising.
Wait they were using an unpublished fork of Signal?
No. It's a wrapper around Signal that sends everything into a corporate cloud. The Isaraeli miltary/defense/espionage whatever have been using this, then sold it to a US company. I'm guessing the company provides wrappers around other apps as well.
It completely defeats the purpose of E2EE. I'm sure somebody told our oh-so-competent US government that's exactly what they need.
Like, it's actually worse than SignalGate.
The Isaraeli miltary/defense/espionage whatever have been using this, then sold it to a US company.
Not at all suspicious. \s
So basically, they hacked themselves out of any benefit Signal was giving them, and then an external party finished the hack.
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well it’s published now….
the part where they’re a private company, keeping backups of top secret information… that’s only on there to avoid accountability….
yeah that’s bad too….
i just hope the hackers are the leaker type and not the hostile foreign government type…
The hostile foreign governments are probably upset that the hacker revealed all these messages were being stored in plain text on AWS.
Then again, who even are the "hostile foreign governments" these days? Canada?
china, russia, north korea, venezuela, canada, greenland, yemen, afghanistan, iran, pakistan, malta, israel, mexico, panama, brazil, nigeria, the european union, nato, georgia, uzbekistan, america…
Russia's more a friend than hostile these days.
friend of the nazi faction trying to take over, enemy of the rest of it…
Which Georgia, or both?
yes
Good news. The fascist takeover will be foiled by the so called "flawless opsec 👊🇺🇸🔥" 🤣
You just have to assume that china and the blyats have all our shit.
That was a given when he kept boxes of top secret material in his bathroom.
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Hopefully someone releases all their messages to throw more shit in their faces. Overwhelm them with bullshit just like they did to everything
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