Summary
Lawmakers from both parties expressed outrage after The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief revealed he was accidentally included in a Trump administration Signal chat discussing Yemen airstrikes.
Rep. Chris Deluzio (D-Pa.) and Rep. Sara Jacobs (D-Calif.) called for investigations and firings, labeling it a serious security breach.
Rep. Don Bacon (R-Neb.) criticized the use of non-secure systems, warning that adversaries like Russia and China could exploit it.
Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.) condemned the administration’s mishandling of classified information, saying it endangers national security.
Everything I’ve ever read about Signal seems to indicate that it’s pretty damn secure.
That said, when you accidentally invite a reporter to the chat, E2E encryption loses a lot of its effectiveness.
Signal is incredibly secure but it’s the wrong tool for this application. you can have the best shovel ever and it still won’t cut a wedding cake effectively.
the Signal E2E algorithm is great but this was a gross OPSEC failure on the part of the feds, with the fact that they were using Signal being a huge extra embarrassing factoid (not to mention that if they’d have followed protocol, this would have never been possible).