Officials in the former president’s administration, though, said they never used the app for classified information — and certainly never for war plans.

How dare you allow us to make this incredibly stupid mistake?!

    • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      We’re at the point where it’s necessary to check the source for everything, because it’s a 50/50 chance that any of this shit is satire.

  • AnIndefiniteArticle@sh.itjust.works
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    20 days ago

    Traffic (2000)

    You know, when they forced Khruschev out, he sat down and wrote two letters to his successor. He said - “When you get yourself into a situation you can’t get out of, open the first letter, and you’ll be safe. When you get yourself into another situation you can’t get out of, open the second letter”. Well, soon enough, this guy found himself into a tight place, so he opened the first letter. Which said - “Blame everything on me”. So he blames the old man, it worked like a charm. He got himself into a second situation he couldn’t get out of, he opened the second letter. It said - “Sit down, and write two letters”.

    From a movie and not real, but basically the playbook they’re using.

  • don@lemm.ee
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    20 days ago

    Holy fuck. Because for some fucking reason, the goddamned director of the fucking central intelligence agency doesn’t fucking know that just because you’re able doesn’t mean you should.

    Never fucking mind also apparently just not fucking knowing about the JWICS that’s designed for this exact motherfucking purpose.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      20 days ago

      Holy fuck. Because for some fucking reason, the goddamned director of the fucking central intelligence agency doesn’t fucking know that just because you’re able doesn’t mean you should.

      Never fucking mind also apparently just not fucking knowing about the JWICS that’s designed for this exact motherfucking purpose.

      ‘Fuck’ count: 7

      (Sorry, couldn’t resist. 😋 😇 I get your anger though; agree.)

      This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      Never fucking mind also apparently just not fucking knowing about the JWICS that’s designed for this exact motherfucking purpose.

      They see that as waste.

      “Why do we need to spend all this money on custom coms gear, software, and standards when an off-the-shelf mobile phone bought from a rando retailer with unknown supply chain (likely manufactured in an adversarial country) and using a commercial app not vetted for sensitive government use is cheaper?”

    • Tarquinn2049@lemmy.world
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      20 days ago

      The “feature” they are looking for is that it deletes itself, despite that also being illegal. They don’t want records of anything to last because when you are doing illegal stuff, records come back to bite you eventually.

      They are using exactly the right app for the features they want.

      The real app they are supposed to be using archives it like everything is legally supposed to be handled. For the express purpose of accountability and eventual transparency.

  • Airowird@lemm.ee
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    20 days ago

    That didn’t happen.

    And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.

    And if it was, that’s not a big deal.

    And if it is, that’s not my fault.<-- You are here

    And if it was, I didn’t mean it.

    And if I did, you deserved it

  • Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io
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    20 days ago

    “We were not allowed to have any messaging apps on our work phones,” said one former top national security official on the condition of anonymity. “And under no circumstances were unclassified messaging apps allowed to be used for transmission of classified material. This is misdirection at its worst.”

  • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.ukEnglish
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    20 days ago

    Why are they still doing what Biden says, didn’t he retire? Are they just following the orders of some random citizen? This just keeps getting worse.