evacideIn case you were wondering what kind of story would lead me to say "I'm going to need a moment to come up with something more printable than 'fuck no,'" it is this: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/01/waltz-national-security-council-signal-gmail/
Kristopher Browne@evacide in case there were any more proof that “but her emails” was really “but her ovaries”.
grechaw@evacide I guess he's become someone very underbusthrowable about now.
Matt Blaze@evacide I'll take "Things that are less well-suited to classified communication than Signal" for 500.
@mattblaze You could hear from my screams even in space.
Wulfy—Speaker to the machinesBreak national security AND train AI.
...When the time comes to delete the humans, AGI won't have to work very hard.
Anthony DavidI am 'shocked' that another of Trump's cabinet have NFI what their job requirements are.
The sick trolling continues.
Brassica-boy now in #F9CBD3
Alex Hoffmann@evacide @mattblaze obligatory „but her emails“ mention.
Wombatadon@mattblaze @evacide I worked with a warship combat system developer once. They used Gmail to discuss and exchange a bunch of stuff, including our transmitter IDS (interface spec). Somewhat classified...
Brokar@evacide Jesus! The amount of stupidity which was voted into office will certainly never cease to amaze me.
Gregg Jaskiewicz@evacide now, question is - is Signal better than what 3 letter agencies provide internally ?
@greggjaskiewicz Yes, because you cannot accidentally add an editor from The Atlantic to your conversation.
Jhooper@greggjaskiewicz @evacide They're not trying to use Gmail and Signal because they are better in some way. They're using them to hide documents from government archiving and avoiding accountability.
Debora Weber-Wulff@evacide
Um, yes. But this is an April Fool's joke, isn't it? Isn't it?
Ease of use is of course much more important than security in today's world.
When you think they can't do anything more facepalmable....
Sebastian Zdrojewski@evacide but TikTok is still a national security threat. Of course.
Honestly, given the average knowledge of the vast majority of representatives, I am not even surprised anymore. It's pushing me into the idea that any effort in fixing problems is just wasted time and health. Nothing has really changed in 20 years, except an increase of blatant marketing campaigns over "cybersecurity" to push up stock prices. (with the few honourable exceptions)
Steff 🏳️⚧️ 🏳️🌈@evacide Well, I guess that's one way to ensure you get the targeted ads from McDonald Douglas and Lockheed Martin
Olivier@evacide just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, I hear Waltz all the way to Canada yelling "hold my beer!"
unsponsor@evacide ♪I'm not a big fan of the government
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Bill Tschumy@evacide Wouldn’t be funny if these emails were sucked into Google’s AI training. Now if we could just find the right prompt…
Crystal_Fish_Caves@evacide "only the best people'
Ignorant, lazy, careless, and stupid. And THESE are the best the GOP could find. *smh and crying audibly*
@Crystal_Fish_Caves
"They're not sending their best..."
Oh, who am I kidding? These ARE their best. 🤦♀️
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Pennywhether@evacide At this rate, I'm waiting to learn that they also use Google Docs for everything. =p
aswack@evacide
The good news is that now they can get more relevant targeted advertising about military operations.
The good news is that now they can get more relevant targeted advertising about military operations.
Bin Chicken 🗑𓅠@evacide I cannot wait for them to respond by saying they'll ditch consumer-grade email and setup their own email servers.
Glenn@evacide Hillary Clinton should not have used a personal email server - it was a mistake that a non-digital person would make. People a little younger would not make that mistake - except Republicans who are still stuck in the 1980s UUCP ! email era. You really have to be unintelligent to use public communication these days.
rtificial@evacide I’m sure it’s either happened or going to happen. An infostealer operator is going to look through all their hits and find pay dirt with these guys.
xs4me2@evacide But her emails… 😬
Martin Schröder 🇺🇳
Johannes Hentschel
Bill Zaumen@evacide I can connect to my ISP's email server and gmail using IMAP, and my email client supports GPG-encrypted email. They would have been better off if they had at least done that, but keep in mind that neither the subject line nor the recipients are encrypted. Just knowing who is talking to whom can help clue an adversary in to what you are doing. So can a subject line like "War Plans".
@evacide @bzdev As another example of how to defeat tight security, decades ago, when spy satellites first became a thing, there was a highly secret building in southern California, so secret that they had people park elsewhere and bussed them in so satellites wouldn't pick up pictures of lots of parked cars. Then some smart-ass engineers went up on the (flat) roof and wrote "F___ Y__" in Russian in very big letters. Oops.
mwguy@evacide Man can you imagine the reply all chains.
jgeorge@evacide @dan They care zero about security and confidentiality. What the are about is communication methods that are not part of national archives, so they can destroy the country without worrying about getting caught over some insignificant detail like the Consitution or any of the million laws on the books that they break daily.
I can not think of any way to destroy the country faster and more efficiently than what they’re doing right now.
It makes the blood boil.
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘@evacide Shall I say it again?
"But her emails."
Darryl Ramm"Hi Matt, it's Mark calling from Google customer support, for security purposes I need you to ..."
He's clearly not a bright bulb.
Alex@evacide yet I can't get security clearance right now cuz of my misdemeanor when we have idiots running this country right now.
CassandraVert@evacide
No wonder they haven't had you in. They can't look you in the eye.
No wonder they haven't had you in. They can't look you in the eye.
Mirppc@evacide umm... when i was working for the federal government (Department of the Interior) we migrated from Outlook to Gmail, This was during the Bush and then Obama administrations. The title seems a bit misleading to what the crux of the issue is.
Lars Fischer@evacide it might just have come to the point, where my small university practices better OPSEC than the government of the United States of America.
Un Bourguignon
Jima 
@evacide I saw this story summarized elsewhere, and they pulled this quote specifically:
"'Unless you are using GPG, email is not end-to-end encrypted, and the contents of a message can be intercepted and read at many points, including on Google’s email servers,'"
("Ha ha, wow," I thought. "They really brought in the big guns for that response.")
@evacide "...Eva Galperin, director of cybersecurity for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, told the Post."
("Oh. Yeah, they really did." 😂)
Happy to see the media asking the right people for their takes! 🥰
pa28@evacide when you’ve done that Fermat has a math problem you might be able to help with.