I'm sure nobody would think of targeting the national security apparatus of the USG with such an exploit to gain access to... I dunno, their Signal messages?
One of the members of that group was accessing it from Moscow to meet with Putin.
Our adversaries don't have to hack anything at all, they don't even seem to have to ask nicely. There's zero chance that Putin doesn't let China know anything they want about the Trump admin, and Putin himself seems to get to dictate our country's policy now.
This has been the case among republicans for decades, and Mitch McConnell himself (and 6 others) spent the 4th of July 2018 in Moscow for christ's sake.
I think it's more so that those aren't as readily available as signal to get at the exploits, and it would be on gov provided devices not on everyday phones that people install just whatever on and then decide to set up a chat group and talk about blowing up brown people whimsically.
I think there’s a temporal aspect to this. Postel’s law was the right idea at the right time. It allows for wide experimentation in the early growth curve while at the same time exploding the realistic user base (because these implementations could in large part talk to each other)
Investor and heavy user of Google Workspace (several small paid domains). I find the Google Gemini capabilities for note taking and summarization of Meets to be excellent, and a huge timesaver for my teams. NotebookLM almost feels magic.
In my experience, of the major players (AMZN, GOOG, and MSFT), Google's AI integrations feel the most polished and useful for day-to-day use.
I guess I don't understand the point of your argument, if even the administration admits that this conversation was genuine? Please avoid the ad hominem attacks.
I mean I lived through it too. So did many others on this site. And my most memorable image is of Colin Powell giving his speech about "yellow cake" to the UN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhWlPo3qxak.
I don't even remember Goldberg or anything he wrote about it, fwiw.
You must've not sat with the old people watching the talking heads all day. Goldberg was ubiquitous. Per the wiki:
Glenn Greenwald called Goldberg "one of the leading media cheerleaders for the attack on Iraq," saying Goldberg had "compiled a record of humiliating falsehood-dissemination in the run-up to the war that rivaled Judy Miller's both in terms of recklessness and destructive impact".
Greenwald's assessment harmonizes with personal experience.
Did you read TFA? Operational details were shared on the chat but the journalist, out of concern for exactly what you describe, redacted those details from his report.
Don’t worry - this massive fuckup will surely spark numerous congressional investigations, resignations, and trigger serious reflection by the administration on their security protocols so they will comply with the necessary recordkeeping laws, confidentiality and proper handling of classified information in the future.
Despite the fact that the NSC already said it appears to be legitimate, Hegseth is going into full attack mode against the "discredited, so-called journalist".
Would be great to live in a world where nearly every voter that saw the NSC response and then the Hegseth response could see the clear contradiction in responses and then make the correct interpretation that whenever these clowns are crying about hoaxes and lying media they are full of shit and 100% in CYA-mode so you should never trust them when they do this on any topic.
Sadly, were this a different administration, they would have already declared an investigation with a goal to impeach a president. Such a ridiculous double-standard with clear partisanship on display. “Both sides”…
I've already seen at least two posts on X with claims that this was actually all intentional and that "Trump is playing 5D chess"... and I think they were serious.
Agree. Washington DC in fact provides all the incentives silicon valley needs to flourish. It's just that silicon valley needs more self awareness and stay out of politics.
the person that i was in 2002 did not—and would not—spin a story out of whole cloth into the national press—especially one that would contribute to the deaths of over 100k innocent people
