Today's OPSEC lesson is this: all of the encryption in the world is not going to save you if you add the editor of The Atlantic to your war-planning Signal group chat.
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The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didnβt think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
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GeePawHill
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in reply to evacide • • •Oh well, not in Gilead...
suldrew π²π³οΈβπ
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in reply to evacide • • •they recently admitted the story is authentic
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White House National Security Council spokesperson says Signal thread with Yemen war plans shared with The Atlantic journalist "appears to be authentic" and "we are reviewing how an inadvertent number was added to the chain"
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in reply to evacide • • •Dan Hugo (ι¨ζδΈΉ)(ΰΉΰΈΰΈ)
in reply to evacide • • •Were those messages in that discussion going to be captured as part of the official record (with the anti-ally comments and all) or were they going to auto-delete into the ether?
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Brokar
in reply to evacide • • •The reporter literally was the man in the middle π Though he didn't attack anything or anyone and he broke no laws because the documents were officially handed to him.
In 2 years there will be a movie about this story because it's so stupidly comedic.
Arena Cops πΊπ¦β
in reply to evacide • • •#USPol #USPolitics #FreePress #Freedom
Tito Swineflu
in reply to evacide • • •These people have the opsec of an eigth-grader
P: "Hey JD, we're planning the kegger to start at 9pm in Yemen! Don't tell any bad people."
Mom: "Is this Petey? What's this about kegs? I don't want you to have any people over while Hampton and I are out of town."
P: "Mom! Stop getting into my chat!"
Not to mention that they all probably still carry their own personal cell phones everywhere, like Trump 1, which are all thoroughly compromised.
Hafiz
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in reply to evacide • • •something something but her emails
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in reply to evacide • • •If I were to send sensitive information over unsecured channels, I'd likely be fired and/or fined for my incompetence.
Seeing people in such power acting so stupidly makes my brain hurt.
Glenn
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in reply to evacide • • •It's illegal to distribute classified information on non-classified platforms.
These are lazy men, saturated with the arrogance of incompetence, contemptuous of their responsibilities.
Using the correct secure government platforms means they have to use government hardware on secure government networks and they are too damned spoiled and privileged to give up the convenience of using their own laptops and phones.
inj4n
in reply to evacide • • •I actually have problems believing that this can be true. That is so much stupidity of so many people in highly responsible positions required for this to happen.
Yet it seems to have been covered by other news outlets too.
Semitones
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in reply to evacide • • •Al
in reply to evacide • • •1) who did they think they were looping in?
2) what role was that person suppose to play?
3) why the discussion about how to make the countries in Europe pay?
4) does it mean anything to violate our national security laws?
Claudia Ska
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in reply to evacide • • •I'd LOVE to read the group chat, after the journalist had left.
"Guys.. who was that?! Anybody know him??" π± π€£
JillL
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Mastodonzetabeta
in reply to evacide • • •sometimes i say, it is more important to secure underlying platform than getting perfect communication app.
pegasus ?!
okay, what is the likelyhood that these high secret meeting persons' devices are hacked with pegasus or pegasus like ?!
short: this admin might be transparent, not for ordinary citizens or media, transparency for enemies.
Ruth OβDay
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