> Lady Bracknell: To lose one [signal conversation], Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose [two] looks like carelessness.
reptilian•9mo ago
... to lose two looks like a concerted campaign by NRO and NSA to undermine the administration's communications and the public's perception of Signal security.
goku12•9mo ago
You don't need NRO or NSA for that. You just need a few ordinary unauthorized people. And that's what happened in these instances. And nobody blamed this on Signal. Signal never claimed that their app is good enough for this.
To summarize, incompetence and carelessness are much simpler explanations here than a conspiracy theory.
ggm•9mo ago
Totally agree. This is Hanlon's razor territory.
Also, before we leap to his alcohol problem, Churchill drank at levels which would horrify most doctors. Moran (his gp) didn't seem too bothered, he even wrote him a script for it during prohibition. Churchill was probably a high level functioning alcoholic-depressive. I don't think Hegseth has the same capacities.
tmaly•9mo ago
Imagine if he is doing this on purpose to feed bad information to reporters to trace them?
almosthere•9mo ago
eh, probably someone that works at signal.
pmags•9mo ago
What is this, "Opsec for Dummies"?
rl3•9mo ago
That sounds like it'd be an improvement, actually.
cantrecallmypwd•9mo ago
Well, he just wanted to make doubly certain to prove laws and competency were irrelevant.
ggm•9mo ago
> Lady Bracknell: To lose one [signal conversation], Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose [two] looks like carelessness.
reptilian•9mo ago
goku12•9mo ago
To summarize, incompetence and carelessness are much simpler explanations here than a conspiracy theory.
ggm•9mo ago
Also, before we leap to his alcohol problem, Churchill drank at levels which would horrify most doctors. Moran (his gp) didn't seem too bothered, he even wrote him a script for it during prohibition. Churchill was probably a high level functioning alcoholic-depressive. I don't think Hegseth has the same capacities.
tmaly•9mo ago