MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTrump officials shared military plans on a private app — 10 years after uproar over Hillary Clinton’s private serverwww.nbcnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square58fedilinkarrow-up1793arrow-down15
arrow-up1788arrow-down1external-linkTrump officials shared military plans on a private app — 10 years after uproar over Hillary Clinton’s private serverwww.nbcnews.comMicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square58fedilink
minus-squarefake_meows@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25arrow-down1·3 days ago This fuck-up was strictly due to the fact that they’re incompetent morons just randomly inviting people to group chats and shit with no guardrails. No. These fuckwits were handling classified and top secret information in the open on their cell phones. It doesn’t matter what specific app they used. This is not about the technology. You missed the point.
minus-squarefloofloof@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up8·edit-23 days agoThis is the same team of geniuses that kept classified files, some of which were mysteriously emptied of their contents, in the unlocked bedroom and bathroom of a members-only club in Florida, near the swimming pool whose water mysteriously destroyed all the surveillance video just when the FBI were about to look at it.
minus-squarefake_meows@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-23 days agoNot to mention that, in this case, the phone network was known to hacked and infiltrated by adversaries. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Typhoon This hack included JD Vance’s phone who was part of this chat group. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/us/politics/trump-vance-hack.html These peoples phones shouldn’t be considered any more secure than a public bathroom.
No.
These fuckwits were handling classified and top secret information in the open on their cell phones.
It doesn’t matter what specific app they used. This is not about the technology. You missed the point.
This is the same team of geniuses that kept classified files, some of which were mysteriously emptied of their contents, in the unlocked bedroom and bathroom of a members-only club in Florida, near the swimming pool whose water mysteriously destroyed all the surveillance video just when the FBI were about to look at it.
Not to mention that, in this case, the phone network was known to hacked and infiltrated by adversaries.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_Typhoon
This hack included JD Vance’s phone who was part of this chat group.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/us/politics/trump-vance-hack.html
These peoples phones shouldn’t be considered any more secure than a public bathroom.