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Trump dismisses Signal security failure as ‘the only glitch in two months’
(www.theguardian.com)
We're in the "if it happened, it wasn't that bad" phase.
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If I was the US military I'd be troubled by the fact the President doesn't recognize how irresponsible and dangerous this all is.
Our one glitch is from signal
Well, and the NRC
Our two glitches are from signal and laying off people at the NRC
Oh, there was also the misleading DOGE numbers
Three! Our three glitches were signal, the NRC, and misleading DOGE numbers.
And DOGE having a completely unprotected database of course.
Oh, dash it all.
Nobody expects the Trumpian Inquisition!
Ackshully we're all braced for it
I really hope our saving grace is wannabe technocrats not understanding how technology works
It's been only two months. The fuck has concentration camps in El Salvador, sucked putlers lepra dick twice a day, cratered the stock market, fucked up NATO, started a trade war with the civilized world, tried to extort Ukraine, threatened invasions of Canada, Mexico, Denmark, Venezuela.
And this is the only fuckup
Guys, where is your second ammendment? You let thousands of school kids die every year, for what?
"Let" is a strong word.
I mean what do you expect people to do? Honestly? If you use guns then the response will be massively violent. Have you seen how police here act during peaceful protests? The reality is a lot of people are just trying to survive and stay alive.
Don't forget Panama! Trump has actually made me quite a bit of money threatening to invade other countries, so I'm keen on keeping track of all of them. If you're curious how, it's simple. It exploits a zero day vulnerability of sports betting markets. You see it all started with the NHL 4 Nations tournament. If the United States is competing in an elimination game against one of the aforementioned countries, bet against them. It doesn't matter how much of a long shot they are, the opponent always finds a way to win. It happened in the 4 Nations final against Canada, the Concacaf Nations League semifinal against Panama, and the 3rd place match in the CNL to Canada again.
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Not physically being in a scif using SIPRnet is not a fucking glitch you fucking clown.
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lol. This was the only glitch?
Remember when your dumb asses fired the people who maintain the nuclear stock pile?
(Who wants to go next?)
And the air traffic controllers...
(Next!)
"Glitch"
Trying to make it sound like a technical failure, not a massive show of incompetence and a huge security lapse by people who are unqualified for their jobs and shouldn't have been communicating through those channels in the first place.
And "It's the first time we've really fucked up inexcusably in a whole two months" doesn't really work as a defense. Nor is it true.
"We're sorry you found out" is basically what he's saying.
Trying to make it seem that they're not actively breaking all the laws around record keeping for government business.
There's no excuse for this.
I am not even sure if he knows what a glitch is on a technical level btw.
It is however his very very first admittance of a failure from his administration, so.... yay? I see progress! /s
Shouldn't that read "it's been only two months until this happened"?
I have only one objection to the otherwise very welcome criticism of the incompetence and deliberate misconduct, as well as the highly entertaining memes:
It's been all too distracting from the question of why we were even bombing Yemen in the first place.
If I understand correctly (full disclosure, I may not) there are a group of politically motivated people that are using Yemen as a place to launch missiles at merchant vessels traveling to or from the Suez canal. As an attempt to bring attention to their political ideals.
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The "how about her emails" crowd sure has changed their tune now
The Buttery Males stopped caring once they won. No amount of misconduct from their side will ever be recognised.
Trump dismisses Signal security failure as
"Our failure".
Signal worked perfectly here: if you add a contact, they get the messages.
What failed was the Trumpist, like at everything else.
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Because the ignoring of congressional law and judicial orders is intentional but what are they going to do. impeach me. so sick of those guys I can't wait till we start rounding them up and shooting them.
Also espionage. Pretty huge f’up.
USA is gonna genocide with or without leaks. Really who's actually going stop USA from murdering poor non-white people in the middle east?
They could plan this publicly on Xitter and it wouldn't matter. They're gonna murder people regardless. They already have been and it's not even news.
“The only glitch in two months” …that we’ve learned about so far.
Edit: It’s not the only “glitch”.
'Serious vulnerability': Trump officials' cell numbers — and passwords — found online
Web learned about firing nuclear weapons workers and then trying to hire them back. Does it mean that wasn't a glitch, but a feature?
His first glitch, eh. I would not want to be in the US military under these fuck-ups.
This administration has been nothing but "glitches" fuck these people, we need more Luigi.
You can call this the only glitch because everything else they have done since January is a line of catastrophies. And this one did not turn into a catastrophe that cost lives just because the journalist in the room behaved responsible.
If you also count Mitch McConnell, that’s gotta be at least 10 glitches since Christmas.
America continues to ignore that ISP's and their entire infrastructure is hacked. Where infecting end devices is no longer a problem to intercept text messages etc in real time before encrypting them. Any efforts to do something about this were immediately stopped by trump when he took office so that spying can continue in peace. Russia and China are not dependent on such leaks if they are in the systems anyway, but there is no uprising. Whereby that represents the far greater danger. The priorities of the Americans are crazy
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