U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.

By Jeffrey Goldberg

  • ansiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 days ago

    TIL that the US military texts around sensitive plans, reporter aside, SMS is not a secure protocol to do this.

      • HellieSkellie@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        10 days ago

        No matter what the protocol is, the chat is completely vulnerable once a single chat member’s phone gets infiltrated. There’s not a set of higher value targets in the world than the US president and his cabinet for actors like China, Russia, Iran, North Korea, and even Israel.

        There is a reason national defense related discussion is meant to happen exclusively on a locked-down High-Side network, on exclusively locked-down High-Side equipment that exists exclusively in locked-down High-Side locations.

        • TrickDacy@lemmy.world
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          10 days ago

          No shit. I was just correcting them on the confidently incorrect assumption they made without even skimming the article.

      • ansiz@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 days ago

        I did read the article but saw several mentions of texting, I was under the impression Signal was just another texting app.