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Signal failure: If you can’t get a chat group right, how can you handle war?
The Pentagon knew Signal was a risk. Why didn’t it heed its own advice?
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Some form of comedy-level human buffoonery is surely the answer to the question of how a non-US government person was added to a high-level US national security chat group.
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Two decades ago, a job at Singapore’s Ministry of Defence (Mindef) where I worked came with a huge sacrifice: You couldn’t use a 3G smartphone.
The risks were numerous. Hackers could turn your phone into a mic and listen in on conversations. They could track your whereabouts via the Global Positioning System. And they could intercept phone calls.
