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[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 57 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Yeah, it is defective... or at least not up to the task of security for classified information... not to mention not compliant with record keeping laws, that's the whole fricking point.

The big play they are trying is to put the emphasis of the fail on adding the journalist... that wasn't the crime, it was a demonstration of why it is a crime, and it is how he got caught. Using signal for war/attack plans was the crime.

[–] forked_bytes@lemm.ee 31 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The real crime was killing innocent civilians in Yemen but I guess nobody cares.

[–] TheFogan@programming.dev 13 points 4 days ago

Well that too, but sadly we are at the point where that is normal and goes back several administrations. The signal usage for military communications reaching public knowledge is something unique to this situation (of which i won't fully discount the possibility that it may indeed have started prior to this administration)

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io -3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When someone fires rockets at you, you should either give them what they want so they stop or ignore it.

[–] deltapi@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't know why you're being downvoted.

My neighbor throws rocks at my house because he wants me to move my fence and give him an extra 6" of backyard. I just ignore him and nothing bad has happened beyond needing to replace my bathroom window twice.

Ignore or give them what they want has worked well for me.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 1 points 2 days ago

I suspect some downvoted because they thought I was being sarcastic, while others downvoted because they thought I was being genuine.

[–] loutr@jlai.lu 16 points 4 days ago

The app itself and its protocol are very secure. It's no wonder WhatsApp chose to implement it instead of baking their own. The issue here is that Signal is not designed to be used for top secret stuff, where adversaries with practically unlimited resources will specifically target your device. There's no auditing features, there's no safeguard if you add a group member by mistake, ...

[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 7 points 4 days ago

Evidence is out there in the papers and the internet for everyone to see, next they deny the report and the texts are real despite previously acknowledging them and claiming that nothing of importance was discussed.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 4 days ago

I would say both of those things are crimes.