• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    17 days ago

    I don’t really see the point of this meme, there’s a difference between a user accidentally adding someone to a chat that shouldn’t be there, and a security flaw being taken advantage of to gain access to the chat. In this instance, it was on the users themselves, the security of Signal played no part in it, yet this meme makes it seem like it was hacked, and by Russia for some reason?

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      17 days ago

      Oh… just the VP, SECDEF, DNI, CIA, NSA, DoS, etc. exchanging messages on a civilian app regarding an upcoming military strike while also having accidentally added a civilian reporter…

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        17 days ago

        To be clear, that’s a user issue (even if it was intentional, which it may have been), that’s not a problem with Signal itself like the meme implies.