It just about always comes down to user error. The White House trusting Signal is very indicative of the effectiveness of the app’s underlying protocols and the organization’s commitment to privacy. This is definitely huge publicity and I hope Signal endures the limelight.
The people in the White House are idiots. They choose Signal because they’re either dumb/negligent -or- because they have been intentionally avoiding record preservation requirements.
Signal is a solid app for sure, but these dipshits didn’t choose it for being the right tool for the job here, as it certainly is not.
I wholeheartedly agree the White House is full of morons. I was just saying that Signal is a solid app for me to securely share bullshit with my family. Its definitely not the right tool for government officials to use. But its plenty safe for sharing memes and pics of my dog.
The white house trusting signal is nice, but using it to circumvent official communication tools which document messages for the archives is not the way it should be used - they used the “disappearing messages”-feature as well. This usage is more in line with criminal organizations like the mafia or yakuza.
I believe some people have been ordered to archive the chat so that it can be presented to Congress in the future. Trouble is, looking at the screenshots it’s already gone as they had the message lifetime set to a week.
I wonder if this will be seen as destroying evidence .
It just about always comes down to user error. The White House trusting Signal is very indicative of the effectiveness of the app’s underlying protocols and the organization’s commitment to privacy. This is definitely huge publicity and I hope Signal endures the limelight.
LOL what kinda bullshit comment is this?
The people in the White House are idiots. They choose Signal because they’re either dumb/negligent -or- because they have been intentionally avoiding record preservation requirements.
Signal is a solid app for sure, but these dipshits didn’t choose it for being the right tool for the job here, as it certainly is not.
It’s not the right tool for their job but still a good tool for the laws they were trying to break…
I wholeheartedly agree the White House is full of morons. I was just saying that Signal is a solid app for me to securely share bullshit with my family. Its definitely not the right tool for government officials to use. But its plenty safe for sharing memes and pics of my dog.
The white house trusting signal is nice, but using it to circumvent official communication tools which document messages for the archives is not the way it should be used - they used the “disappearing messages”-feature as well. This usage is more in line with criminal organizations like the mafia or yakuza.
I believe some people have been ordered to archive the chat so that it can be presented to Congress in the future. Trouble is, looking at the screenshots it’s already gone as they had the message lifetime set to a week.
I wonder if this will be seen as destroying evidence .
i’m pretty sure that there are laws regarding required archival, but laws seem optional for this administration.
There very much are law requiring archival, but now it’s been ordered in the hearings as well. This makes it much more obvious that it’s a problem.