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Wen

One might wish to laugh at the fuckupedness of these pricks - if only they were just tending a small local circus.

That email reached campaign staffer Brian Hughes, who apparently wanted Waltz – then a spokesperson for the Trump – to be aware of Goldberg’s inquiries so he could offer informed comment if a story appeared.

Hughes therefore sent Goldberg’s inquiry, which included the journalist’s phone number,to Waltz. Image c/o DailyKos

theregister.com/2025/04/07/inf

Cartoon c/o Daily Kos - apologies, seems to be readable, just a little too buggered to do it a the moment.
#Signal#Trump#WellFecked
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mori_au 🇦🇺

Ugh. Stop whinging in the name of #weaksuace humour and take an actual “stand” by getting off #WhatsApp and getting on #Signal. Fuck the #olgarchy. And if your friends insist you keep using WhatsApp, they aren’t actually your friends at all. Stop being part of the problem. #TheGairdian #AusPol

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · I can’t delete WhatsApp’s new AI tool. But I’ll use it over my dead bodyBy Polly Hudson
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Raiden

@bullivant #signal is certainly a good alternative to #whatsapp .But one should not forget that it is a centralized, closed system. Who says it won't develop negatively one day? You're moving from one walled garden to another. The dependence on one provider remains. Therefore, in my opinion, decentralized solutions are the better alternative, also with regard to blocking and censorship. I use #deltachat and can only recommend everyone to give it a try.

Replied to Robert [KJ5ELX] :donor:
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mkj

@0xF21D The way I see it is that even if end-user device security is poor, proper E2EE such as that used by Signal still provides a significant benefit: It shifts the burden of an attacker from wholesale dragnet surveillance (which is easy to do in bulk) to focused attack targetting (very difficult to do in bulk, especially inconspiciously).

*Even if* device security sucks, which would equally impact other services as well, that *still* provides a privacy benefit.

#Signal#opsec#privacy
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BiyteLüm

Signal vs. Session: Which messenger actually protects your privacy in a world that’s always watching?

I broke down what really matters—metadata, anonymity, and whether your phone number is giving you away.

📌 If you’re serious about privacy, you’ll want to read this:
medium.com/@biytelum/signal-vs

Medium · Signal vs. Session: Which One Truly Protects You in a Security-Obsessed World?By BiyteLüm
#Privacy#CyberSecurity#Session
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Chris Koester

IT #security often fails due to the #carelessness and #incompetence of #users.

Probably this time too:
n-tv.de/politik/So-kam-der-Jou

Unfortunately, prematurely unsettling #headlines appeared on #ntv, among others: @ntv ‘How secure is the messenger service Signal?’ (n-tv.de/technik/Wie-sicher-ist).

Dear stubborn #BigTech users: ‘This incident would also have happened if you had communicated via Pony Express or fax.’

Too bad the #press isn't communicating this clearly!

#Signal @signalapp

Sambol of Signal Messenger
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Chris Koester

IT-#Sicherheit scheitert häufig an der #Sorglosigkeit und #Inkompetenz der #Benutzer.

Vermeimtlich auch dieses Mal:
n-tv.de/politik/So-kam-der-Jou

Leider entstanden vorschnell verunsichernde #Schlagzeilen u.a. bei #ntv: @ntv "Wie sicher ist der Messengerdienst Signal?" (n-tv.de/technik/Wie-sicher-ist).

Liebe sture Nutzer von #BigTech: "Dieser Vorfall wäre auch passiert, wenn man per Pony-Express oder Fax kommuniziert hätte."

Schade, dass die #Presse das nicht klar kommuniziert!

#Signal @signalapp

Symbol of Signal Messenger
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Jürgen

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According to the White House, the number was erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone, which one person described as the function where an iPhone algorithm adds a previously unknown number to an existing contact that it detects may be related.

#waltz #trump #signal #signalgate #hegseth #politics #uspol #uspolitics

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

The Guardian · Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chatBy Hugo Lowell
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tobychev

The answer to how come a journalist was added to the confidential #signal chat group where the USG planned war crimes has been revealed: a "smart" Apple function that tries to add unknown numbers to your contacts whenever it guesses they are related

> inadvertently ended up saving Goldberg’s number in his iPhone – under the contact card for Hughes, now the spokesperson for the national security council.

> According to the White House, the number was erroneously saved during a “contact suggestion update” by Waltz’s iPhone

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

The Guardian · Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chatBy Hugo Lowell
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"ofW": ohne festen Wohnsitz

"contact suggestion update" –

Zusammengefaßt: Der #Apple-Algorithmus kopiert die unbekannte Nummer von #Goldberg in die Kontakte von #Waltz – als #Hughes´ Nummer. Der #Sicherheitsberater der größten #Militärmacht der Erde, den #USA, hat keine Ahnung von #Sicherheit. Ein #Algorithmus macht unkontrolliert, was er will.

Das ist so beruhigend, wenn #Atomwaffen und die Abschuß-Codes unter Kontrolle eines Irren und seiner Dummköpfe stehen.

#uspol #depol #Signal

theguardian.com/us-news/2025/a

The Guardian · Exclusive: how the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg got added to the White House Signal group chatBy Hugo Lowell
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