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@signalapp no it's not.

Being a #centralized, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider solution subject to #CloudAct makes you inherently vulnerable by your own choice and thus trivial to shutdown compared to real #E2EE with #SelfCustody of all the keys and true #decentralization as well as #SelfHosting (i.e. #PGP/MIME [see @delta / #deltaChat et. al.] and #XMPP+#OMEMO [see @monocles / #monoclesChat et. al.]!)

And don't even get me started on you collecting #PII (espechally #PhoneNumbers) for no valid reason, (thus violating #GDPR & #BDSG)...

But yeah, I'll be patient to shout "#ToldYaSo" to your annoying cult of fanboys!

the #TrevorMilton (#Nikola Motor fraudster) pardon is not going over well with the #MAGA crypto bros, many of whom were scammed by... Trevor Milton (which should be unsurprising - these are gullible people who love trading meme stocks, AKA “the primary market for #NKLA shares”).

Tesla bros are also pissed, because Milton's whole scam was basically pretending to be Elon Musk for trucks.

"[Trevor Milton] did nothing wrong and he's a good person." - Donald Trump

"Trevor Milton donated $1.8 million to Trump and his lawyer is #PamBondi's brother." - me

video: x.com/AutismCapital/status/190

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@dangillmor

The Failed States of America is a fascist zone with a growing number of political prisoners throughout this month.

Kept in the states, #gitmo or #elsalvador or black sites that we don't know about.

#dhs #ice #fbi whatever #gestapo shows up, your constitution has been de facto suspended when the executive branch ignores it. #1a #4a #14a are functionally dead.

Get it yet?

What. Are. You. Waiting. For? (First they came for...)

🚨 Must read: Timothy Snyder on #SignalGate:

"Signalgate: violating national security in order to violate rights"

'Our government is openly compromising our national security, the better to violate our rights. Its position is that it is worth risking the lives of soldiers abroad in order to be able to persecute civilians at home."

snyder.substack.com/p/signalga #Trump #Musk #TulsiGabbard #MikeWaltz #JDVance #MarcoRubio #JohnRatcliffe #FBI #CIA #JeffreyGoldberg #Boasberg #ElSalvador #FRA #RuleOfLaw

Thinking about... · Signalgate: violating national securityBy Timothy Snyder
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DOGE staffer 'Big Balls' provided tech support to cybercrime ring, records show
reuters.com/world/us/doge-staf

"The best-known member of Elon Musk's US #DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a #cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen #data and cyberstalking an #FBI agent...

#EdwardCoristine is among the... DOGE effort that has been given sweeping access to official #networks"

#ElonMusk#Musk#Coup

Director of National #Intelligence #TulsiGabbard, #FBI Director #KashPatel & #CIA Director #JohnRatcliffe are testifying before the #House Intelligence Cmte again Wed amid fallout over senior #Trump national officials sharing messages about a #military strike over an unsecured group chat w/ #TheAtlantic’s #JeffreyGoldberg.

#Gabbard addressed the #Signal fiasco in opening remarks, referring to #Waltz’s previous comments & noting that he has “taken full responsibility.”

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@briankrebs
A lot of us were saying in 2024 that "If #TheOrangeMenace is reelected, we might never have another election again."

It was dismissed as hyperbole. I'm not even sure *I* believed it 100%.

But it's the old question of "who polices the police?" on steroids. They now control EVERY institution that we'd otherwise depend upon to "investigate": The #FBI, #SCotUS... and thanks to a cowed & sycophantic #GOP, not even a "House Oversight Committee" to rein them in. #DisasterPresidency

Exclusive: #DOGE staffer, '#BigBalls', provided tech support to #cybercrime ring, records show

The best-known member of Elon #Musk's U.S. DOGE Service team of technologists once provided support to a cybercrime gang that bragged about trafficking in stolen data & #cyberstalking an #FBI agent, according to digital records reviewed by Reuters.

#USpol #InfoSec #NationalSecurity #Trump
reuters.com/world/us/doge-staf

The #Senate Select Cmte on #Intelligence hearing is a regular briefing intelligence ofcls provide #Congress on worldwide threats & was scheduled before #JeffGoldberg’s report from The Atlantic.

But the controversy is likely to dominate the session.

Testifying:

#DNI Tulsi Gabbard

#CIA Dir John Ratcliffe

Timothy D. Haugh, #NSA

#Defense Intelligence Agency dir Jeffrey A. Kruse

#FBI director Kash Patel

#NationalSecurity #USpol #geopolitics
c-span.org/event/senate-commit

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The list of measures purpose-built to cleave off a domain in which the #law does not apply grows by the day: the #pardons that bless & invite #insurrectionary #violence; the #purges of career lawyers at the #DOJ & #SDNY, #InspectorsGeneral across the govt, & snr #FBI agents; the AG’s command that attys obey #Trump over their understanding of the #Constitution; the appointment of people such as #KashPatel & #DanBongino, who…view loyalty to Trump as more compelling than their constitutional oath;