• Anonymouse@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Just imagine if the roles were reversed and some reporter was hanging out in a top secret war chat on Signal with high ranking US government officials!

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    28 days ago

    The FBI said the information came from a “sensitive source with excellent access” and introduced the report as a warning about “extremist actors targeting law enforcement officers and federal facilities”.

    Remember kids, look into securing your phone & only add people to your group chats that you have good reason to trust.

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    28 days ago

    Signal apparently maintains a chat log? Sounds like a dumb idea for stuff like this. Better to erase everything once it’s been seen or after a few minutes.

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      28 days ago

      Maybe you’re thinking of a fork that was recently publicized for having logs in memory in plain text and being easily accessible to third parties