Summary
Trump appointed Elon Musk, head of the DOGE, to investigate how a journalist was accidentally added to a Signal chat discussing military operations in Yemen.
National Security Adviser Mike Waltz admitted fault but could not explain how the contact was saved. Trump speculated that the journalist may have added himself.
The investigation will involve Musk’s technical team, the National Security Council, and White House lawyers.
A federal lawsuit challenges the use of Signal for government communication, alleging it violates federal law.
Just wait till Leon assigns Big Balls to the case – they’ll get to the bottom of this in a flash
Maybe he will fire all of them. It is his go to move.
lmao what’s to investigate other than what dumb pieces of shit these are?
Huh, as it turns out, that group chat had about 10 million people that were over 150 years old.
Trump speculated that the journalist may have added himself.
You can’t even do that on Signal! But MAGAts will eat it up and keep repeating it cuz of how dumb they are.
You know what you can do? Anyone can add to a group their in. At least from what I’ve seen. Secure for govy talk for sure.
signal group chats can have admins and users. admins are able to control access to the group.
signal is a social communication network. yes, when everything works well and people dont screw up, its wonderfully private and secure - one of the best and easiest to use secure social communication tools around.
the real issue is… these idiots used it (probably from their personal phones!) like it was NSA approved tech. lead idiot hegseth being all “opsec is clean” while an unknown participant has been added to the group chat is just… I have no words. these people are playing dressup.
signal on an uncompromised device and with decent digital hygiene will keep a whole bunch of people and TLAs out of your business. however, I do not expect the US Govt planing military fucking strikes via signal just so the “principals” can conveniently sip drinks by the pool instead of being in an NSA approved communication facility.
seriously, fuck!
Oh yeah they are boys playing men. It’s some wild shit to see.
There’s a setting for that. It’s open invite or admin invite. Default is open invite.
Doubtful any of the participants knew that, though.
Marco Rubio added another account of his in the screenshots, so that was not disabled.
Also of nitee is the “Waltz added you to the group” line. Unless The Atlantic modified the screenshot, then we know exactly what happened.
Ok let’s suppose you could though. Wouldn’t that make it EVEN MORE criminally negligent to discuss classified info there?
Right??? Like oh my actual god, if a journalist could do this (it’s completely, categorically impossible), then every nation-state on Earth would use it to trivially eavesdrop.
Yeah, this would make the story exponentially worse. It’d be like if you got caught cheating on your wife and went "whoa calm down! I didn’t know that woman, she just showed up to my Friday night gang bang unannounced!”
exactly. I use and love signal. its a fantastic privacy tool - seriously! but the amount of pure stupid on display by this administration is just too much to take.
Why would they discuss classified military plans on an app where outsiders could just “add themselves”. That argument isn’t helping their case…
Nevermind. I need to stop thinking about things. The sheer stupidity hurts my brain.
It seems like their best argument is that they are incredibly stupid, and a smart reporter took advantage of them.
We’re supposed to think “he (the journalist) is so bad and evil he hacked into the secure platform” — not that that helps their case either.
“Hold my unlocked phone while I chug this beer!”
《criminal mastermind journalist adds himself to confidential chat group》
With the MAGAts its best to imagine a very low bar, then lower that again by half the amount and thats where they are in terms of how dumb they are.
“Think of the most average person you know, and then realize that
half of all people are dumber than thatevery one of these morons has the collective IQ of a carrot.”
We can all sleep better knowing Shitler is on the case.
OK… so you want to say he added himself… which let’s ignore that you can’t do that, but say you can. Then why are they using this app? Basically saying national security measures out in the public. That’s not a better look.
Elon is turning into the Jared Lushner of this second term.
You investigate the massive security breach with an even bigger security breach?
Tom Clancys Rotating Coffin Turbine Power Generation - may he rotate in peace - is going to need to upgrade the lines.
How about investigating why they were using signal and not all in prison for it.
Unrelated, though what’s with Musk, perhaps other MAGAts, wearing the MAGA hat like that in the thumbnail: barely touching their head, so much that a slight breeze would knock it off.
Is it some sort of literal ‘big brain’ show off thing?
probably to hide his hair procedures, how botched it was.
Nah he just paid a lotta money to have that hair and doesn’t wanna crush it with that hat.
Like any idiot who doesn’t want to take account for doing something idiotic, you need to send five people after the “true cause”, when everybody knows exactly what it is already.
- It’s illegal to use commercial means to discuss national security matter or military engagement
- You typed “J G” into a fucking app and shared said secrets with someone who wasn’t cleared.
Finding different ways to explain it isn’t going to distract from point #1, and only further explain how fucking dumb you all are.
Idiots.
It will tho. This will 100% work. Musk will say there was some backdoor hacking bull crap going on and the journalist snuck into the meeting and then made it seem like he was invited by accident to make them look bad. It will be played off as a nasty attack that was only meant to make the Republican heroes of this country look bad while also risking national security and the lives of those in the military.
And they will eat it up like pigs. God I hope I’m wrong.
I think you are wrong, but only in the you’re not thinking about the big picture.
Elon “I traced the DDOS to Ukrainian terrorists” Musk is in charge of this. Someone on Twitter (probably his alt) is going to post a conspiracy on Twitter about Ukrainian or Canadian hackers being behind it, and he’s going to retweet it with some plausibly deniable bullshit like “not far off,” and rally up his cult of reactionary prokaryots to demand a economic or military response. It’s yet another golden opportunity for the crony collective to sweep their own incompetence under the rug while simultaneously scapegoating another country to push their unspoken-but-obvious agenda.
I hate that I read this and immediately went “yup, that’s how it’ll go” without a hint of irony.
Its probably just pretext to arrest the editor, and charge him with treason .
I dare say I’m beginning to suspect this Trump fellow may not be as competent as he claims
No! Rilly?
This is going to turn into a privacy issue with signal not Zapp Brannigan giving the codes away.
