Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat

33 points by mraniki 2 months ago | 9 comments
  • ggm 2 months ago
    To paraphrase Oscar Wilde:

    > Lady Bracknell: To lose one [signal conversation], Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose [two] looks like carelessness.

    • tmaly 2 months ago
      Imagine if he is doing this on purpose to feed bad information to reporters to trace them?
      • reptilian 2 months ago
        ... to lose two looks like a concerted campaign by NRO and NSA to undermine the administration's communications and the public's perception of Signal security.
        • goku12 2 months ago
          You don't need NRO or NSA for that. You just need a few ordinary unauthorized people. And that's what happened in these instances. And nobody blamed this on Signal. Signal never claimed that their app is good enough for this.

          To summarize, incompetence and carelessness are much simpler explanations here than a conspiracy theory.

          • ggm 2 months ago
            Totally agree. This is Hanlon's razor territory.

            Also, before we leap to his alcohol problem, Churchill drank at levels which would horrify most doctors. Moran (his gp) didn't seem too bothered, he even wrote him a script for it during prohibition. Churchill was probably a high level functioning alcoholic-depressive. I don't think Hegseth has the same capacities.

      • pmags 2 months ago
        What is this, "Opsec for Dummies"?
        • rl3 2 months ago
          That sounds like it'd be an improvement, actually.
        • cantrecallmypwd 2 months ago
          Well, he just wanted to make doubly certain to prove laws and competency were irrelevant.
          • 2 months ago
            • almosthere 2 months ago
              eh, probably someone that works at signal.