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Apparently, we're already so inundated with this administration's determined idiocy that no one started a thread about the Yemen attack (blatantly illegal in itself) and our fedgov's use of a consumer chat app, Signal, to post dates, times, weapons, and other detail - all in advance of the actual act of war.
In the media, everyone's been focusing on the presence of the editor of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg having been added to the chat group, which most folks are taking as a mere sign of incompetence. Excuse after excuse -- nothing was classified, accusing underlings invited the editor, claiming he somehow sneaked in, claiming the app is flawed -- is being blown up in real time.
Basically, it's the usual shltshow, but highlighting the rank incompetence of the Trump 2.0 staff selections in the area of national security -- Vance, Hegseth, Gabbard, Waltz, Rubio, et al.
The following is for those who feel somehow reassured that Signal is "end to end encrypted" --
Really, the only logical explanation is that someone in the group did this on purpose. Because no one could possibly be this stupid.
Linky: https://www.facebook.com/amanda.gailey
I believe this was originally posted to Bluesky (I don't belong) but started popping up in other socials. Amanda Gailey is an English professor at University of Nebraska and known liberal.
In the media, everyone's been focusing on the presence of the editor of the Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg having been added to the chat group, which most folks are taking as a mere sign of incompetence. Excuse after excuse -- nothing was classified, accusing underlings invited the editor, claiming he somehow sneaked in, claiming the app is flawed -- is being blown up in real time.
Basically, it's the usual shltshow, but highlighting the rank incompetence of the Trump 2.0 staff selections in the area of national security -- Vance, Hegseth, Gabbard, Waltz, Rubio, et al.
The following is for those who feel somehow reassured that Signal is "end to end encrypted" --
Hilarious explanation of how the Signal app works.
"As someone who uses Signal every day, I need to explain how totally committed to being an absolute dumbass multiple people had to be in order for this security leak to happen.
Okay, so in Signal if you want to talk to multiple people you have to create a group and give it a name, for example "JD Vance Humps His Couch." You then add people from your contacts to the group. If you are a competent user of Signal, you can then restrict the permissions so that only designated admins can add people. If you are an absolute dip**** whose only job qualification is pwning the libs on Twitter, you would create a group about war plans and not know about or activate this functionality.
If you are in a group and are allowed to add members, either because you are an admin or because the admin was raised on lead paint milkshakes, you then must do the following to add someone:
-Click on "JD Vance Humps His Couch"
-Scroll down to "Add Members."
-Select one or more people from your phone's contact list.
-Click "Update"
-Confirm that yes, you want to add that member. This is impossible to do accidentally.
Then, once you have gone through the multi-step process of adding a member, an announcement appears on the screen for literally everyone in the group to see: "JD Vance Has Added Chairry to the Group." This sentence is a line in a single-stream text thread and if anyone is reading their messages they cannot miss it.
At this point, anyone can say in the chat or privately, Hey JD, why are you adding the bedroom-eyed plush chair from Pee-Wee's Playhouse to our chat about your upholstery problem?
Yet nobody in the war bro chat said a thing about the new member added to the group.
One other thing: Signal is supposedly a secure chat platform, but it is only as secure as whatever else people are doing on their phones. For example, if you send someone a Signal message asking about how to best protect your sensitive man parts against the sharp springs inside the voluptuous crack of your La-Z-Boy, you will later see ads in your browser for La-Z-Boy lube because your browser is spying on the things you do on your phone, even if the tech bros say they are not.
So even if the war bro chat were not full of hires from an affirmative action program for white fascist sycophants who graduated in the top 99% of their class, and they actually practiced basic common sense and literacy in maintaining their war bro chat, it would still be an insecure way of discussing matters of national security."
"As someone who uses Signal every day, I need to explain how totally committed to being an absolute dumbass multiple people had to be in order for this security leak to happen.
Okay, so in Signal if you want to talk to multiple people you have to create a group and give it a name, for example "JD Vance Humps His Couch." You then add people from your contacts to the group. If you are a competent user of Signal, you can then restrict the permissions so that only designated admins can add people. If you are an absolute dip**** whose only job qualification is pwning the libs on Twitter, you would create a group about war plans and not know about or activate this functionality.
If you are in a group and are allowed to add members, either because you are an admin or because the admin was raised on lead paint milkshakes, you then must do the following to add someone:
-Click on "JD Vance Humps His Couch"
-Scroll down to "Add Members."
-Select one or more people from your phone's contact list.
-Click "Update"
-Confirm that yes, you want to add that member. This is impossible to do accidentally.
Then, once you have gone through the multi-step process of adding a member, an announcement appears on the screen for literally everyone in the group to see: "JD Vance Has Added Chairry to the Group." This sentence is a line in a single-stream text thread and if anyone is reading their messages they cannot miss it.
At this point, anyone can say in the chat or privately, Hey JD, why are you adding the bedroom-eyed plush chair from Pee-Wee's Playhouse to our chat about your upholstery problem?
Yet nobody in the war bro chat said a thing about the new member added to the group.
One other thing: Signal is supposedly a secure chat platform, but it is only as secure as whatever else people are doing on their phones. For example, if you send someone a Signal message asking about how to best protect your sensitive man parts against the sharp springs inside the voluptuous crack of your La-Z-Boy, you will later see ads in your browser for La-Z-Boy lube because your browser is spying on the things you do on your phone, even if the tech bros say they are not.
So even if the war bro chat were not full of hires from an affirmative action program for white fascist sycophants who graduated in the top 99% of their class, and they actually practiced basic common sense and literacy in maintaining their war bro chat, it would still be an insecure way of discussing matters of national security."
Linky: https://www.facebook.com/amanda.gailey
I believe this was originally posted to Bluesky (I don't belong) but started popping up in other socials. Amanda Gailey is an English professor at University of Nebraska and known liberal.
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