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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 didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.
By Jeffrey Goldberg
The headquarters are irrelevant. Signal is open source. Its academically dishonest to say they are insecure without pointing to why in the source.
Eh, I think that in the context handling classified information, it’s fair to say Signal is “insecure”, purely because anyone with a phone number can have an account, and can be accidentally added to sensitive conversations.
You know, like the exact thing that happened in this article.
Not that that’s Signal’s fault. But the fact that it’s even possible makes Singnal unusable for handling classified information.
Fair, but that is not what the comment I am replying to is saying. They are saying Signal is compromised for being based in the US.
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Okay, but what does that have to do with Signal being headquartered in the US?
Is it?
Is that why people trying to protect their privacy use VPN’s/DNS resolvers outside of the US jurisdiction such as Mullvad/Quad9 etc?
And as stated by someone else if you’re using a personal device with a phone number to share classified information outside of a SCIF, you’ve got to ask yourself if there’s a modicum of “sensibility” in the administration here.
If the data you transmit is properly encrypted it does not matter where it passed and where it is.
That is independent of what I am saying about Signal
It does when you’re sharing nationally classified information with what is a third party, not sanctioned by the administration itself?