Pentagon warned staffers against using Signal before White House chat leak
Pentagon warned staffers against using Signal before White House chat leak
www.theguardian.com
Pentagon warned staffers against using Signal before White House chat leak
Summary
The Pentagon warned employees against using the encrypted messaging app Signal due to a potential vulnerability exploited by Russian hackers.
The warning came just before a security breach where top Trump administration officials, including the vice president and defense secretary, accidentally added a journalist to a Signal group chat discussing military strikes in Yemen.
The leak sparked outrage and criticism, though Trump downplayed it as a "glitch."
Signal stated it was unaware of any unaddressed vulnerabilities.
Honestly a potential vulnerability in signal sounds like bigger news to me than this administrations war planning fuckup.
Its not like this leak is going to cause any accountability.
The Guardian references an NPR article where they discuss the vulnerability as a phishing attack, so it doesn't seem to be anything interesting after all.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5339801/pentagon-email-signal-vulnerability
A phishing scheme is exactly the kind of thing those idiots would fall for.
So the vulnerability is that people at the pentagon fall for phishing scams. How is this a signal vulnerability? Seems like the memo is dumbed down to scare pentagon employees away from signal
Lol, so WhatsApp and Telegram have the same, by their definition, vulnerability