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So release the messages. Not that it matters what they said, absolutely nothing will happen except clicks for whoever reports on it.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 12 points 6 hours ago (1 children)
[–] modus@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Buttery Males!

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 hours ago

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked... by the zio company that made it.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 47 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Daily reminder that end to end encryption only works when both ends are secure

[–] lando55@lemmy.world 1 points 12 minutes ago

Does that include making sure the people using it are not morons

[–] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 16 hours ago

Shockingly comes days after the leak that the service is being used by the dork team. Someone really really really wants to get these backups.

[–] capt_wolf@lemmy.world 266 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Just remember, no matter what way they spin this, they chose to ignore national security protocols and went out of their way to use an unsecure messaging app. That's the real story. The witch hunt they're undoubtedly going to go on is a perfect opportunity to redirect the public, save face, and further erode our freedoms.

You know, SOP for the whole Trump regime...

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

If leaking info to zios is unsecure, USA has much bigger problems.

It's weird knowing Putin pays people to spew the same propaganda you regurgitate for free.

[–] blakenong@lemmings.world 107 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Something something Hillary Clinton email servers

[–] SpaceShort@feddit.uk 6 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Also, the reason we know about it is because Mike Waltz invited a journalist to a group chat.

[–] b3an@lemmy.world 4 points 16 hours ago

a snowball of stupidity if you will. Let’s see how big it grows… looks like it picked up momentum and size now with TG Signal hacked 🤡 ☃️

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[–] asteriskeverything@lemmy.world 70 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

We have forked off from the darkest timeline into its stupidest.

[–] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

I think the darkest timeline and the stupidest merged into one. We get both.

[–] Curious_Canid@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 hours ago

Stupid malice is still malice.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 22 hours ago (4 children)

I like that your optimism separated the two

[–] LeninOnAPrayer@lemm.ee 3 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Well it's a fork. So it's technically got all of the darkest timeline up to the point they added the extreme stupidity patch.

There will be a merge PR soon enough.

[–] skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 2 points 53 minutes ago

The fact that we have incompetent evil instead of competent evil is what keeps me getting up to face the day in the morning. These guys having an IQ that could freeze nitrogen means that we, the people, have a slim chance to avoid total annihilation. It could be very much worse than it is.

This way adds the additional danger vector of traumatic brain injury due to repeated and forceful facepalming, but I'd rather that over intelligent evil in the white house. The one saving grace of Trump & Co is that they're all dumb as a box of rocks and are incapable of flexing their power fully. I'm upset that the president of the USA is retarded, but I'm thankful that this president in particular is the retarded one.

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 6 points 18 hours ago

Let's put them back together:

"Like Idiocracy, only less fun"

[–] Valorie12@lemmy.world 17 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

For now, until they pull request it back to the dark timeline

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[–] AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee 81 points 1 day ago

Wow. It's almost like there is a reason that all those annoying OPSEC procedures exist.

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 22 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Wait they were using an unpublished fork of Signal?

[–] A_norny_mousse@feddit.org 38 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (5 children)

No. It's a wrapper around Signal that sends everything into a corporate cloud. The Isaraeli miltary/defense/espionage whatever have been using this, then sold it to a US company. I'm guessing the company provides wrappers around other apps as well.

It completely defeats the purpose of E2EE. I'm sure somebody told our oh-so-competent US government that's exactly what they need.

Like, it's actually worse than SignalGate.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 9 hours ago

The Isaraeli miltary/defense/espionage whatever have been using this, then sold it to a US company.

Not at all suspicious. \s

[–] TheObviousSolution@lemm.ee 9 points 14 hours ago

So basically, they hacked themselves out of any benefit Signal was giving them, and then an external party finished the hack.

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[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

well it’s published now….
the part where they’re a private company, keeping backups of top secret information… that’s only on there to avoid accountability….
yeah that’s bad too….

i just hope the hackers are the leaker type and not the hostile foreign government type…

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

The hostile foreign governments are probably upset that the hacker revealed all these messages were being stored in plain text on AWS.

Then again, who even are the "hostile foreign governments" these days? Canada?

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

china, russia, north korea, venezuela, canada, greenland, yemen, afghanistan, iran, pakistan, malta, israel, mexico, panama, brazil, nigeria, the european union, nato, georgia, uzbekistan, america…

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 hour ago

Russia's more a friend than hostile these days.

[–] yeather@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

Which Georgia, or both?

[–] RedWeasel@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago

Me(deadpan) : Wow, that is surprising.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 22 points 22 hours ago

Good news. The fascist takeover will be foiled by the so called "flawless opsec 👊🇺🇸🔥" 🤣

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 33 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You just have to assume that china and the blyats have all our shit.

[–] technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

This was literally a zio project but somehow libs blame china. smh.

[–] LMurch@thelemmy.club 2 points 9 hours ago

So we're thinking hackers from other countries saw an opportunity but noticed it was ZIO so they backed off? Phew, that's a relief.

[–] Xaphanos@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That was a given when he kept boxes of top secret material in his bathroom.

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[–] Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca 28 points 1 day ago

Hopefully someone releases all their messages to throw more shit in their faces. Overwhelm them with bullshit just like they did to everything

[–] hemmes@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool, cool…

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