Don Bacon says Russia, China likely saw war plans group chat

I'm sure the Trump administration doesn't care. They weren't having the conversation on Signal to hide it from foreign governments, it was to hide it from the American public.

All because murica is a racist, misogynistic country that couldnt handle the thought of a black woman leading the country. Hope it works out well for ya!

Bacon, a former Air Force brigadier general

So he's not just a random idiot like most GOP reps I guess. Not precluding him from being an idiot on account of being a GOP rep though. Kamala won his district so he wouldn't gain much from sucking Trump's dick too often.

Especially since one of the members in the chat was in fact IN RUSSIA at the time!

What are the odds they were included in that chat on purpose?

If they indeed used personal phones of regular consumer brands then ... yeah, I assume zero day exploits would indeed have been used to gain persistent access. It's at least in the realm of the possible.

In fairness, Trump likely called Putin and told him personally...

Of course. Fucking synchronous replication for this administration with Russia.

Don Bacon, I will guarantee you with 99.99% certainty that nobody else saw those chats. But that doesn't matter, highly sensitive internal government discussions should not be had on consumer messaging platforms.

Also, it's sad and telling when the highlight of the event is how information was handled and not the fact that civilians on the other side of the world were killed using millions of dollars of taxpayer money.

Oh you mean they read the Atlantic

“I will guarantee you, 99.99 percent with confidence, Russia and China are monitoring those two phones,” Bacon told CNN’s Manu Raju. “So I just think it’s a security violation, and there’s no doubt that Russia and China saw this stuff within hours of the actual attacks on Yemen or the Houthis.”

This "article" provides zero evidence of the assertion, and just assumes China and Russia own these phones with an on-device compromise? Signal is encrypted, unlike the SMS infrastructure which has been fully owned by China for years. The only known way to compromise it is on a device itself, not by "monitoring" these devices (watching SMS traffic). Or, this pundit knows about secret Signal hacks the rest of the world doesn't...

Signal doesn't bridge to SMS any more, so I fail to see how these messages would be intercepted unless these people are walking around with compromised phones. Yes, it'd only take one person in this group to compromise the whole thing, but making this assertion without any explainer is just clickbait.

Cool, hopefully Russia sees all war plans and other such information from now on.