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>Anyone in the military would have told you if they were in this situation, they would have been court marshalled by now along with months in prison And anyone
by rapsey 2y ago
>Anyone in the military would have told you if they were in this situation, they would have been court marshalled by now along with months in prison
And anyone familiar with the workings of governments and politicians would tell you the use of Signal/WhatsApp is pervasive throughout most of the world.
While there are secure private messengers available for governments to license, whoever is in charge of security is generally too paranoid or incompetent to license them. Or they license some homegrown piece of crap that no one uses.
The result is everyone being worse off. Politicians use public apps that are much less secure and illegal for that purpose and regular government workers being in the stone age. Or just accept the use of public apps and allow your entire government be dependent on the good will of a foreign company that can cripple you at the push of a button.
- Sloowms 2y agoJust casually sidestepping the fact that none of these people had to know the exact times of the attacks.
- rapsey 2y agoI didn't mention it because it is not what I was talking about? I don't care about what they were talking about, I'm not an american. I just know the sorry state of mobile security in governments.
- Terr_ 2y ago> And anyone familiar with the workings of governments and politicians would tell you the use of Signal/WhatsApp is pervasive throughout most of the world. Hold up, we're not talking about politicians sharing dirty jokes, planning campaign rallies, or messaging a staffer to pick up their dry-cleaning here. We're talking about a whole stack of problematic circumstances, where each detail makes it much rarer: 1. Using their personal phone for official business. 2. Engaged in a conspiracy to violate government record-keeping laws by deleting records of official business. 3. Where that official business involved classified information, the kind where soldiers are put in jail for leaking it. 4. Actively leak-bragging those classified details to coworkers with zero "need to know." 5. About regarding how their government is about to bomb an entire apartment building of civilians because they think one guy went inside.
- rapsey 2y agoI don't know why you think I condone their actions. I was explaining the reality of politicians and mobile communication. I just wanted to say that I know this happens everywhere and comment on the sorry state of government mobile security.