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Ros23 | 11 months ago

1) Those Alex Horton and Missy Ryan do owe an apology to Signal project. Their publication was incorrect and caused misinformation regarding one of the most secure platforms on Earth.

2) As for Gov officials - I understand they used Signal on 1) Government issued devices, without a doubt running NSA built OS; 2) preinstalled Signal App, without a doubt audited by NSA line by line; 3) tactical OP information which has very close expiry date.

3) That "journalist", IMO, is guilty of high treason. They must have immediately notified the group about their presence and they must have not publish any of the secrets they accidentally got privy to. And even more, from professional POV, the actions of journalist were deeply non-ethical. I dare say, un-American and definitely not something that any US Citizen can be expected to do.

4) The "deep state" is furious because they can't leak Signal chat messages. IMO, it's a good choice. They (Administration) just need to carefully audit the groups and distribution lists. That was a very bad call.

I personally will _continue_ using Signal, even with more confidence now.

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jmulho|11 months ago

The journalist published proof that Hegseth texted detailed military attack plans via Signal two hours prior to the attack (the secrets) after multiple participants on the Signal chain lied to congress in a public hearing and claimed it didn’t happen. Would letting those lies stand have been the ethical thing for a journalist to do? Exposing a bunch of liars at the highest level of government is absolutely American and something all US citizens should be expected to do. Sadly, about half of Americans will still believe the lies even now that they have been exposed.

Ros23|11 months ago

You very conveniently ignored my demand for official apology to Signal team. Why? What you have against them? Or everything should burn because half of America hates Trump? ;-) What about my point of running Signal on officially issued by Whitehouse phones? Do you disagree with that? Or we are ignoring the facts again, to make TDS the center of our conversation? And, what I _really_ want to know - will you continue using Signal or, as result of that stupid publication, you would ditch it? Thank you and please don't take my post wrong - I respect your views very much, I am just appalled how Signal is getting hurt among all that. It's unfair to Developers and great people workingin Signal team.

raxxorraxor|11 months ago

I am not a friend of how the story is currently being spun and I am not from the US. But by stereotype alone that wouldn't at be at all "unamerican" if the US really wants to be the leader of the free world in contrast to the usual autocracies.

On the contrary that would be the real duty of a journalist. Patriotic you could say.