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Hegseth had an unsecured internet line set up in his office to connect to Signal, AP sources say (apnews.com)

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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer.

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[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

The dude is the Secretary of Defense. If he tells the people that work at the Pentagon to set up a line, what do you think they'd do? Refuse to follow orders? If they do that, then they're fired.

So they set up the line... then leak it to the press.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

possibly, but i remain skeptical….
for example, it’s probably illegal for them to do that, with ton of rules preventing that….

just seems far fetched, unlike him texting war plans….

could very well be a red herring… like a deliberate, easily disproven, fake leak to take away from what he actually did….

mayhaps… i don’t know.
the signal text is more likely and he included a journalist so it’s corroborated….

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

He's the Secretary of Defense, he makes most the rules about how military secrets are handled. Even if it were against some rule, if he orders someone to break a rule, then he's the one breaking not the person setting up the connection. Sure in the military, you don't follow illegal orders, but that's reserved for being ordered to do a war crime or go against the constitution in some way. Sec Def telling someone to set up an internet connection doesn't rise to this level.

Sure we don't have sworn testimony, but the AP is a reliable source of information and they verify their sources. I'd default to trusting the story rather than doubting it because you can't imagine anyone in the pentagon having the ability to set up an unsecured internet connection when ordered to do so by Sec Def.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 49 minutes ago

i believe neither… i am skeptical….

i DO believe the signal leaks, and this is kinda plausible, but it feels a lot more far fetched….

if the SecDef order the Pentagon be open to the public and that they allow anyone to walk in and look around, i think people would say “no” and there’d be a whole thing about stopping that.

… installing an unsecured internet connection seems about the same level of absurd to me….

could be true, but i don’t completely believe it… and the AP has been wrong many times before…