The title really lacks context. The “person in Russia in the group chat” is Witkoff, the US official in charge of the situation in Ukraine and the Middle East
That is definitely the context needed. Not sure though if he needed to know the exact details of the battle plans whilst in Russia. Still feels like a slight lack of control of sensitive information. Albeit it’s not as bad as forgetting you had a journalist in the same chat.
Hillary was crucified over emails on her own server. What these guys are doing is way worse by using a commercial platform to transmit sensitive information.
Not sure though if he needed to know the exact details of the battle plans whilst in Russia.
Through an unsecure platform, no less.
There really is no excuse for any of this. And they are denying that a chat existed, or that any classified information was posted, or that there were even plans to attack anyone… imbeciles. Every single one.
How is Signal unsecure?
Unsecure ≠ Insecure
Unsecure in this context generally means not in compliance with military and classified security practices and procedures for “securing” information.
Signal is secure in the sense of being strong end-to-end cryptography.
Well I mean, if anyone needs to know, it’s him, right?
Possibly, but by private company owned chat? Also while in a foreign country known to be hostile to the US. If you apply this logic it smacks of lack of thought towards control of sensitive information which is pretty much the incompetence this administration has shown since well a long time.
No doubt on a personal device, surrounded by hostile cell towers and WiFi hotspots and being bombarded with who knows what kind of state-level malware.
It’s not like they need to break signal; if they can clandestinely screencap, keysniff etc then this chat was completely pwned regardless of how secure it was between TCP endpoints
This is not even a conversation that should be happening on a government issued smartphone in a hostile foreign country.
See, Donald Trump was feeding the Russians false information via a double secret Signal Chat under the guise of accidentally leakng it. He plays 18D chess.
No one cares. No one goves a shit. There are literally “collateral arrests” being made in relation to deportations.
…if you’re not rioting now you ain’t gonna.
It’s already well established that the Trump administration is a bunch of traitors and foreign assets.
What puzzles me is how Americans are OK with that?
They are destroying old alliances, and making them enemies to please Russia and possibly China too.We are is okay what?
As far as I can tell, the Trump administration is meeting near zero resistance.
If people don’t do anything, it’s the same as condoning it.And yes I know there are some that do, and I know there are good Americans too.
But you are too few, and you don’t make a significant difference to the problem.There are lots of protests going on, as well as lots of angry people going to their representatives’ town hall meetings and/or calling and sending messages to them. Unfortunately it’s Congress who has the Constitutional power to act and they’ve abdicated. The Repubs are fully on board with the trump regime and the Dems are in the minority and have very little power. Most of them are just wringing their hands as usual. There are 3 branches of government and two are fascist-ruled. The third (judiciary) has no actual power if the other two don’t abide by their rulings.
It’s hard to know what more the average person can (legally) do right now.
Like this:
https://apnews.com/article/serbia-protest-students-vucic-74fff7381f2d6e6ba084aeb17aa88163
This is in Belgrade, a city with just over a million citizens:USA has a 40 times bigger population and 9 cities that are bigger than this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_by_populationI’m not dissing those that actually try do do something, but it’s almost like Americans gave up on democracy and the rule of law.
Or can Americans not see they are about to lose their democracy? And is heading directly towards a totalitarian regime!Dems (most of them) are just wringing their hands as usual
Exactly, I wonder what it takes to make them wake up? Democracy in USA needs to be restored and reformed, and now is the time to do it.
If democrats are waiting because they believe it will be easier if Trump loses more popularity, they are playing a very dangerous game.I think our protests will grow in size once people start feeling the more devastating effects in their personal lives. Yes, I do think there’s a lot of denial going on, and there’s lots of gaslighting not only by magat media but also by mainstream media (all owned by oligarchs), with very little coverage of the protests. What little coverage they do, they’re mostly focusing on the tesla/anti-Musk ones, and other things only if they get a lot of social media attention. And lots of misinformation and pro-trump propaganda on social media as well that downplays the severity of the transgressions being perpetrated.
mainstream media (all owned by oligarchs)
Yeah huge problem right there! USA has an idea now that Democrats are left wing! while in reality Democrats are right of the center for most European countries.
Bernie and AOC are moderately left wing, and far from extreme, there is a pretty big left wing spectrum to the left of them too.But USA lacks political nuances because of the 2 party system ingrained in the way democracy works in USA.
You’re welcome to come and try to organize it yourself.
Good luck.
Absolutely no, it has to be Americans who do it, and decide what to do with their country.
And we are. Sure. 34,000 in the Capitol of Colorado might seem pathetic to you, but that’s enormous. Just to meet with Bernie Sanders and AOC.
50501 is gaining a lot of momentum. Nearly every weekend in every city there are protests. They’re happening during the weekdays too. There are people showing up to republicans in town halls voicing their anger at their representatives.
If you aren’t willing to help, kindly fuck off.
We’re not quite here yet, but… it’s only been 2 months.
