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"it's possible that the current admin working groups don't trust the official secure channels and assume they are compromised and they are being spied upon by their own or foreign agencies"

Jesus Christ, this is dumb. Using a civilian app with civilian phones is literally the best way to get spied on, by either "your own" or foreign agencies. These people are going to get us all killed in a nuclear first strike.



> These people are going to get us all killed in a nuclear first strike.

Not sure how leaking state secrets is risking nuclear annihilation - unless they invite Putin or Xi mistakenly in their Signal Group and plan to bomb Moscow or Beijing but the coziness of the current administration with these 2 countries is certainly not making this scenario realistic at all.

Instead the reality is likely more boring: they just accelerate American decline


Don’t kid yourself that coziness makes anyone safe. We’re always one radar fluke away from a mistaken launch. And the more confident any adversary is that they can eliminate leadership, the higher the probability something terrible happens.

Please don’t reassure yourself by thinking that putting total incompetents in power is making anyone safer.




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