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It feels weird to say who was worse. Gingrich was worse to his wife for certain. Absolute monster of a husband and father. Clinton engaged in workplace sexual harassment as the president of the united states, and for some reason it took like 20 years for people to realize that lewinsky was his primary victim after spending years and years shaming her more than him.

At one point they had the FBI working with Lewinsky’s friend to secretly record her talking about the relationship.

Depending on how much you believe David Brock - they were going to keep going until they found something. They were also happy to make up a lot of shit too - the stuff about state troopers bringing in women for Bill to sleep with, Vince Foster and the other “murders.” The entire investigation was not about justice.

Which of course doesn’t make Bill Clinton not a lecherous shitbag and sex pest. The way the world treated and treats Lewinsky is fucked up. He probably did harass Jones, if not all of the other weird mentally ill women Alex Jones types like to trot out.

Let's not both sides this shit. Yes, there are some corporate Democrats that are indeed hypocrites (I despise both Pelosi and Newsom) but Democrats have a mole hill while Republicans have a Denali sized problem with it.

Yes, they have some secure communications systems, but none that are safe to use on a mobile device. Signal is literally more advanced than what they're using. It's far from insane.

"Rolling your own" cryptographic system is rarely a good idea. There are countless examples of companies and governments deciding to ignore existing tested and verified standard industry tools on the basis they're more vulnerable because they're more well known, but that decision tends to bite them in the end because the solution they come up with has some critical vulnerabilities they didn't notice in time. These things are easy to miss when there isn't a whole global community of security professionals looking at the code.

Now I'll admit that the US government could absolutely create a comparable or even superior solution if they put the right people and enough funding behind the project, no doubt. There is the question of whether or not it's worth doing, worth the investment. If budgets are tight (because conservatives are so concerned about govt spending 🙄), I'd certainly rather they use signal than they decide to dedicate almost enough funding and develop something that almost works; that could also be disastrous.

Honestly, the best move for the government is probably to make their own app utilizing existing standards. The signal protocol is perfectly open and free, they just need their own clients. Well, that and some identity verification in the account creation process. But yeah, If they had their own app, they could design it to do some useful things, like verify all members in a group have appropriate security clearance. That might have come in handy...

So yeah, I don't really disagree with you, they should probably be using their own system. But I think it's easy to think that any bespoke system would inherently be superior, and that very much isn't the case. And with that in mind I'd say it's truly not a crazy or negligent choice to use the existing best-of-class systems off the shelf. It's maybe not the best choice, but it's not a bad one.

Eh, I think that in the context handling classified information, it's fair to say Signal is "insecure", purely because anyone with a phone number can have an account, and can be accidentally added to sensitive conversations.

You know, like the exact thing that happened in this article.

Not that that's Signal's fault. But the fact that it's even possible makes Singnal unusable for handling classified information.

The headquarters are irrelevant.

Is it?

Is that why people trying to protect their privacy use VPN's/DNS resolvers outside of the US jurisdiction such as Mullvad/Quad9 etc?

And as stated by someone else if you're using a personal device with a phone number to share classified information outside of a SCIF, you've got to ask yourself if there's a modicum of "sensibility" in the administration here.

It's like someone else said - I went back and dug a little on old.reddit (RIP r/America) and there's for some reason its "not being shared" and actually, neutered?

Maybe I'm just a sucker for popcorn but it smells like it shit, it usually is 💩

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Usually it's due to many many many duplicate posts.

That's so true. And to be clear I wasn't trying to suggest that they should have been doing that. Like the messaging and the bombing. Both bad

Oooh you're right I never thought about it like they're similar to the circle Stalin had.

Why do you say it isn't secure? I'm not saying it should be used for what they where doing. I was just saying, it is encrypted

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

You know sms is a type of texting but you don't know Signal? Interesting. It's an end to end encrypted chat app.