[Cryptography] Signal chat fallout.

[Tom Mitchell]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM Ray Dillinger <bear at sonic.net> wrote:

>
> I have told people time and again that nothing happening on a cell phone
> should be considered private.  Cell phones, regardless of how good an
> individual piece of software on them may be, leak like mesh bags full of
> loose shit and unless completely redesigned from the ground up

.....
> Bear,
>

The only place for cell and signal is kin to classic code word
broadcast morris code.
Example:
    Tora Tora Tora
 essentially
    Tiger Tiger Tiger

i.e.  Trigger an action along the line of "promptly go to your SCIF
facility and answer the phone" as prearranged.

A side effect of signal as used is that it vanishes records in violation of
multiple record retention policy and law.
Since a clerk to record the "chat" was not on the chat the obligation for
records was ignored (this assumes it
was secure.  A week earlier there was a broadcast message that it was known
to be under attack and to not
use it for even normally unclassified information .. Like picking up the
laundry.

Even 15 min advanced notice allows anti aircraft tools to be manned and
enabled. In this case two hours.

My basic and advanced  training had classified classes where compartments
of the same secret topic were kept isolated
and others in the class totally excluded. The full list of names does not
read like the list of those with a
real time "need to know".  It was more like a chat that the next episode of
White Lotus would air in
two hours than a serious air strike with lethal intent.

I am not amused.


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    T o m    M i t c h e l l  (on NiftyEgg[.]com )
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