[Cryptography] Signal chat fallout.

[Ray Dillinger]

The thing that pisses me off most about cell phones is, no matter how 
secure you personally may have your own set up, when you set up a 
supposedly secure chat, if ANYBODY on the list has accidentally 
downloaded some snoopy software that includes a screen grabber, then 
EVERYBODY's discussion gets harvested.  If somebody just picks up their 
phone while they're in the shower, and reads it because they didn't 
secure it, they read everybody's messages, not just the messages of the 
participant whose phone was insecure.

That's why Hegseth's comment about "clean OPSEC" was complete 
irresponsible bullshit - not only had he not secured all the endpoints, 
he had no way to secure the endpoints.  He had no control over the OPSEC 
of all the individual devices controlled by the people involved in 
this.  Least of all Jeffrey Goldberg's.

It is almost certain that the Russians and the Chinese read this in 
realtime, and declined to warn the Houthi because they didn't want to 
confirm that they have penetrated one or more of these officials' phones.

Bear