Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth should stop using the Signal messaging app at this point.
The Washington Post reports that the former Fox News host had Signal installed on his office computer at the Pentagon, a major security risk and further evidence that Hegseth used the messaging tool frequently for government business. According to the Post, the desktop app mirrored Hegseth’s phone and helped the secretary overcome the lack of cell phone service within the Pentagon.
Cell phones and other personal electronic devices are not permitted within classified spaces, and installing Signal on his desktop computer allowed Hegseth to get around that prohibition. At least one of Hegseth’s top aides, his chief of staff Joe Kasper, also expressed interest in using Signal on Department of Defense computers, but it’s not clear how widespread the app is among Pentagon employees.
He’s clearly one of those “I don’t care who you are, you can’t tell ME what to do” types that has NO business being in any position of power.
He fits right in with the current administration. 🤦♂️
That’s a basic qualification in the Trump administration.
-gate is the suffix for scandals.
-a-Lago is the suffix for stupid scandals.
This scandal should be labelled as Sig-na-Lago.
Signa balls
Lol gottem
Man. Fat lot of good all that military equipment does if we have this guy drunkenly wrapping it around trees and stepping away unscathed.
Edit: I wonder if this is all an attempt to discredit Signal. My brother refused to use Signal at first because “isn’t that what the idiots in government are using?” Its really hard to explain that signal prevents the message between two clients from being read, not who has access to the clients. Then I had to explain to him that no, a client isn’t a paying customer of Signal.
Hmmm, maybe he’s a traitor?
This man is the perfect DUI hire who is a gift that keeps on giving.
Roughly as competent as the other clowns, Sieg Heiling Space Karen and Felon Drink Bleach.
This man is the perfect DUI hire…
I was tempted to correct you (DEI), but you’re still correct with this acronym.
The joke is that we’ve swapped DEI for DUI
Well the joke is the Administration and the supporters. The rest writes itself.
I wonder who has privileges to install apps on office PCs in the military. Does every high level appointee have the ability to install any app the find online.
Gotta love user-mode installers… let alone portable apps.
You can still block it. It’s literally secops 101…any EDR worth a fuck can do this.
The issue is…the people running this shit show, usual are bottom of the barrel because those who know what the fuck they’re doing go private because it actually pays what they’re worth.
I’ve worked with plenty who come out of the 3 letter agencies and they’re usually ignorant to the real world.
Everything is so fuckin Silo’d nobody knows a damn thing. I can’t wait to not be in fed IT so i can actually learn things that are worth a damn, and not be held down by the unwillingness of the government to use modern tools.
I was wondering why the traffic wasn’t blocked too.
God i hate these things. And that windows is set up to allow it.
None of that shit gets patched, ever, it just sits in Appdata and rots.
To be fair, a lot of Linux apps also do similar things and ~/.local is a similar swamp.
I suppose. I would have assumed that the pentagon would have methods that nerf the user to only install preaproved apps.
I hope the IT guys who set it up kept their work orders.
If your boss orders you to do something stupid, you get that shit it writing
One thing is clear, they have no idea what all the fuss is about.
Part of the installation requires you to scan a QR with your phone. Anyone care to ask him how he did that?
Can you print the qr or take a photo of it and then scan when ypu have signal?
If I remember correctly it’s dynamic
