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Signal leak sparks new calls for modernized messaging options from defense officials
« on: March 27, 2025, 10:47:05 am »
Signal leak sparks new calls for modernized messaging options from defense officials

SignalGate underscores a need for secured chat options for government and military insiders, current and former defense officials told DefenseScoop.
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Brandi Vincent

March 26, 2025

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Officials are calling for accountability, clearer policies, and more access to modern platforms that military and government insiders can trust for real-time communications about classified activities, after some of the Trump administration’s top national security leaders shared high-stakes military operational plans in a group chat with an American reporter.

In interviews this week, DefenseScoop spoke to current and former defense officials — many who requested anonymity to speak freely — about the incident revealed by the Atlantic magazine’s editor in chief Jeffrey Goldberg, who was included in a message chain earlier this month on the encrypted but unclassified messaging app Signal, where some of the president’s closest advisers discussed forthcoming strikes targeting Houthi militants in Yemen.

“This, of course, is a political hot potato — because both sides are going after each other. But I want to move beyond the politics and say, let’s acknowledge the gravity of this,” a former senior defense official said in reference to the implications of classified plans being shared on Signal.

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https://defensescoop.com/2025/03/26/dod-signal-chat-group-hegseth-yemen-houthis/
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Re: Signal leak sparks new calls for modernized messaging options from defense officials
« Reply #1 on: March 27, 2025, 10:54:56 am »
I said earlier this could be some kind of disinformation intended to be "uncovered."  If this is correct, Trump has really pulled on over on the democrats.  They have made such a big stink, shown their usual "outrage," and had a congressional investigation, how can they not act to appropriate necessary upgrades now?  If they fight it, they will look like complete fools - w-e-l-l now that I think about it, they are quite capable of fighting it, they have no shame. :whistle:
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Re: Signal leak sparks new calls for modernized messaging options from defense officials
« Reply #2 on: March 27, 2025, 10:57:02 am »
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Re: Signal leak sparks new calls for modernized messaging options from defense officials
« Reply #3 on: March 27, 2025, 11:29:02 am »
Signal is a fine as an encrypted communication application.  The problem was Waltz, and the fact that he had Goldberg in his contacts list in the first place, thus leading to such an error.
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Re: Signal leak sparks new calls for modernized messaging options from defense officials
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2025, 11:50:49 am »
Even the best of technologies can't prevent human error.  That's the flaw.  The greatest security risks and vulnerabilities are from poeple on the inside.

That's why when the machines takeover once SkyNet is online ... to eliminate human error by eleiminating humans ... perfectly logical, if you are a computer.

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