One of the most basic tenets of cybersecurity is that you must “consider your threat model” when trying to keep your data and your communications safe, and then take appropriate steps to protect yourself.
This means you need to consider who you are, what you are talking about, and who may want to know that information (potential adversaries) for any given account, conversation, etc. The precautions you want to take to protect yourself if you are a random person messaging your partner about what you want to eat for dinner may be different than those you’d want to take, if, hypothetically, you are the Secretary of Defense of the United States or a National Security Advisor talking to top administration officials about your plans for bombing an apartment building in Yemen.
This is one of the greatest headlines in the history of tech journalism.
Its actually perfect. No notes. No possible improvements.
This deserves some kind of award.
MAGA Administration Secure Communication Assessment Procedure:
- Are you Hillary Clinton?
☐ Yes ☐ No
If No, discontinue assessment and do whatever the fuck you want.
- Are you Hillary Clinton?
Military gear generally has tons of anti-moron safeguards. Unfortunately, Signal is for civilians.
Which also means these conversations were on an unapproved app on an unapproved device. Actual government phones wouldn’t be able to get Signal, right?
Government secure phones are special hardware made by the NSA. They are nothing like civilian phones. Obama got the NSA to lock down his Blackberry but I doubt that is doable with today’s mainstream smartphones.
The last stu-3 stopped working in 2009.
Yes they have different stuff now, but same idea.
I actually wouldn’t be shocked if it was possible with modern smartphones. A significant amount of money is available to be made from federal security work, and meeting the NSA criteria has benefits that extend to companies that work in the federal security space as well.
As long as you can flash them, everything’s possible.
In that spirit: Fuck Apple to hell.
I have a government-issued iPhone. It has Signal on it, and I have access to the appstore. It’s also not allowed to be used for anything but unclassified communication and isn’t permitted inside restricted areas.
Another 9/11 scale fuckup is all but guaranteed, mark my words.
But her emails, but Benghazi.
Yup, people are going to die, and it is going to be their fault… and they won’t care. Maybe the American people will. 🤔
Americans will be pissed, but at the end of the day nothing measurable will come of it. We’d have to be straight starving to get off our asses and get shit done.
And by then they’ll already have declared martial law.
I’m cool with starving, just don’t touch my internet service.
about your plans for bombing an apartment building in Yemen.
Then maybe don’t.
Can we just imagine if al Qaeda had added a journalist to their group chat regarding a bombing?
