“THE SIGNAL SCANDAL!!!” INVESTIGATION WATCH THREAD.
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I think you're giving them more credit than is due. Their "look over here not there" SOP doesn't require a lot of mental gymnastics, and Trump and crew don't hit the triple digits on the IQ scale.
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As someone who uses Signal every day, I need to explain how totally committed to being an absolute dumbass multiple people had to be in order for this security leak to happen.
Okay, so in Signal if you want to talk to multiple people you have to create a group and give it a name, for example "JD Vance Humps His Couch." You then add people from your contacts to the group. If you are a competent user of Signal, you can then restrict the permissions so that only designated admins can add people. If you are an absolute dipshit whose only job qualification is pwning the libs on Twitter, you would create a group about war plans and not know about or activate this functionality.
If you are in a group and are allowed to add members, either because you are an admin or because the admin was raised on lead paint milkshakes, you then must do the following to add someone:
Click on "JD Vance Humps His Couch"
Scroll down to "Add Members."
Select one or more people from your phone's contact list.
Click "Update"
Confirm that yes, you want to add that member.
This is impossible to do accidentally.
Then, once you have gone through the multi-step process of adding a member, an announcement appears on the screen for literally everyone in the group to see: "JD Vance Has Added Chairry to the Group." This sentence is a line in a single-stream text thread and if anyone is reading their messages they cannot miss it. (If they are not reading their messages, one might wonder why they have been included on the chat to begin with.)
At this point, anyone can say in the chat or privately, Hey JD, why are you adding the bedroom-eyed plush chair from Pee-Wee's Playhouse to our chat about your upholstery problem?
Yet nobody in the war bro chat said a thing about the new member added to the group.
One other thing: Signal is supposedly a secure chat platform, but it is only as secure as whatever else people are doing on their phones. For example, if you send someone a Signal message asking about how to best protect your sensitive man parts against the sharp springs inside the voluptuous crack of your La-Z-Boy, you will later see ads in your browser for La-Z-Boy lube because your browser is spying on the things you do on your phone, even if the tech bros say they are not.
So even if the war bro chat were not full of hires from an affirmative action program for white fascist sycophants who graduated in the top 99% of their class, and they actually practiced basic common sense and literacy in maintaining their war bro chat, it would still be an insecure way of discussing matters of national security.
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Okay, so in Signal if you want to talk to multiple people you have to create a group and give it a name, for example "JD Vance Humps His Couch." You then add people from your contacts to the group. If you are a competent user of Signal, you can then restrict the permissions so that only designated admins can add people. If you are an absolute dipshit whose only job qualification is pwning the libs on Twitter, you would create a group about war plans and not know about or activate this functionality.
If you are in a group and are allowed to add members, either because you are an admin or because the admin was raised on lead paint milkshakes, you then must do the following to add someone:
Click on "JD Vance Humps His Couch"
Scroll down to "Add Members."
Select one or more people from your phone's contact list.
Click "Update"
Confirm that yes, you want to add that member.
This is impossible to do accidentally.
Then, once you have gone through the multi-step process of adding a member, an announcement appears on the screen for literally everyone in the group to see: "JD Vance Has Added Chairry to the Group." This sentence is a line in a single-stream text thread and if anyone is reading their messages they cannot miss it. (If they are not reading their messages, one might wonder why they have been included on the chat to begin with.)
At this point, anyone can say in the chat or privately, Hey JD, why are you adding the bedroom-eyed plush chair from Pee-Wee's Playhouse to our chat about your upholstery problem?
Yet nobody in the war bro chat said a thing about the new member added to the group.
One other thing: Signal is supposedly a secure chat platform, but it is only as secure as whatever else people are doing on their phones. For example, if you send someone a Signal message asking about how to best protect your sensitive man parts against the sharp springs inside the voluptuous crack of your La-Z-Boy, you will later see ads in your browser for La-Z-Boy lube because your browser is spying on the things you do on your phone, even if the tech bros say they are not.
So even if the war bro chat were not full of hires from an affirmative action program for white fascist sycophants who graduated in the top 99% of their class, and they actually practiced basic common sense and literacy in maintaining their war bro chat, it would still be an insecure way of discussing matters of national security.
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I definitely agree there. Became quite obvious when the administration was asked about it and they immediately said "yeah, looks legit, how'd that get there?". Almost too obvious as a fabricated situation, but then the people it's intended to fool aren't very bright, as this thread clearly shows.
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Lol. Tell me you're in a cult without telling me you're in a cult.
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Carrot Caligula has decreed that since the primary goal of "Good Optics" was achieved, the operation was a success, so there is no issue here.
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Holy fuck.
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You're a fucking idiot.
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Leaking top secret information is not legit. Pete Hegseth should resign immediately.
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Legit conversation, not a legit claim of leaking 'top secret information'.
Given the full transcript hasn't been released, I think solid claims either way don't have enough substance.
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The transcript has been released by The Atlantic and there's even less to see. 
Which is a good thing. Imagine your outrage if Clinton had used a non secure message app,while being in Russia about Benghazi...The transcript has been released by The Atlantic and there's even less to see.
I'm sure the EU is thrilled to understand how America thinks about them as well. That should work well for international relations.
https://thehill.com/regulation/cour...icials-face-records-lawsuit-over-signal-chat/The transcript has been released by The Atlantic and there's even less to see.
Damn Ish, this isn't just going to go away......best stock up on those wine boxes....
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Not the least bit surprising.The transcript has been released by The Atlantic and there's even less to see.
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Publicly discussing attack plans before an attack happens is leaking top secret information. It's telling the enemy where and how you're going to strike. Pete Hegseth should resign immediately. If Trump doesn't force Hegseth to resign, the House should start impeachment proceedings against him.
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It wasn't a public discussion.
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The republican congress has done nothing since coming into the majority until they need to tilt the courts in their favor. Bunch of pathetic clowns.
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What did they find on Hilary's servers?The transcript has been released by The Atlantic and there's even less to see.
Fuck off, MAGAT.
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Just yell, "Last call!", that will get his attention
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The transcript has been released by The Atlantic and there's even less to see.
Why is the felon demanding a probe then?
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Obviously they plan on shoving something up Goldberg's ass. I'd like to suggest a 'Jumping Cholla" branch.
