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[-] PortoPeople@lemm.ee 324 points 4 months ago

Trump is a Russian asset and the Kremlin dictates U.S. policy.

[-] Tryenjer@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Krasnov, destroying America from within since 1987, the best accidental investment Putin ever made. Great success, comrades! 👍

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[-] Sanctus@lemmy.world 214 points 4 months ago

Looks like Russia won the ideological war and will be exporting authoritarianism to the globe.

[-] 9point6@lemmy.world 139 points 4 months ago

The main thing to remember about authoritarians is that none have ever been documented to be impervious to small pieces of metal moving at high speed.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 70 points 4 months ago

It's too soon to say conclusively that they all aren't though, additional testing is required.

[-] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 24 points 4 months ago

Note to self: before becoming dictator, develop natural immunity to small arms fire. Begin with BB gun?

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 55 points 4 months ago

This isn't a nationalist idea .... the oligarchs have won and are exporting authoritarianism to the globe. Most or the majority of people everywhere just want to have a peaceful life whether they are in the US, Russian, China or anywhere on the globe ... it's oligarchs and wealthy morons that think they can manipulate everyone, everywhere all the time and allow them to become rulers of the universe.

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[-] floo@retrolemmy.com 18 points 4 months ago
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[-] Teknikal@eviltoast.org 131 points 4 months ago

Love the way THE BBC is trying to make signal sound like some hackers playset, really shows how much the UK gov hate encryption or people having any privacy at all.

[-] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 4 months ago

It also goes to show that Signal may actually be worth its salt in regards to security.

[-] booly@sh.itjust.works 71 points 4 months ago

You use Signal to avoid government surveillance.

I use Signal to avoid government accountability.

We are not the same.

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[-] Wilco@lemm.ee 116 points 4 months ago

Sounds like a bunch of traitors.

[-] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 30 points 4 months ago

Are you just figuring that out now? Attacking all its allies is what did it for me.

The US is a captured state now, and there are only a few ways out; voting is not one of them.

[-] oppy1984@lemm.ee 18 points 4 months ago

Welcome to the party pal, most of us knew it was traitor town when "Russia if your listening" was said on national TV.

[-] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 97 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Independently verifiable detail number 28543 showing that Trump and everyone he has appointed are unfit for office, and that no one who voted for him will ever care about, and from which no consequences will ever flow.

I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters. -- Mr. Donald J. Trump

[-] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 4 months ago

Could everyone please stop repeating "nothing will ever come of this" every time fucked up shit happens?

[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

Until someone actually faces consequences, it's just people spitting truth sadly.

[-] octopus_ink@slrpnk.net 15 points 4 months ago

Man I don't have enough time in the day to be doing that.

I save my cynical outbursts for when he gets caught. And I have reasons, though you may not agree with them.

I think it's important not to lose sight of the fact that our government is incapable of dispensing consequences to this man, regardless of what he does, regardless of where his loyalties clearly lie, regardless of how he continually works at the destruction of the United States of America. So we're not surprised at where things are four years from Jan 21 like we were four years from Jan 06.

While we are all tempted by the complacent comfort of "someone in government will handle it" now that he's actually at the peak of his power, it seems key that we all remember "no one in government handled it" for four years when he was out of power and arguably at his weakest.

[-] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 64 points 4 months ago

That encryption is not impenetrable, however, and the Google Threat Intelligence Group warned just last month of "increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors to compromise Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services."

This is somewhat disingenuous. Signal can't be directly cracked. Only access to the phone directly or via mirroring can expose it. The article somewhat explains this.

I am in no way whatsoever excusing the actions of these douche-chalupas. I prefer accuracy in my reporting, though. That said, Witkoff in Russia may as well have been a direct line to Putin.

[-] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 47 points 4 months ago

The most uncrackable encryption can be defeated by Steven Witkoff sitting on Putin's lap while reading the messages.

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[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 27 points 4 months ago

This seems a bit too nitpicky tbh.
The author is correct, Signal is not "perfect", because the weakest link is always the endpoint device and the end user. Which is kind of the whole point of this article; The issue is not that Signal was used, as it's reasonably secure, it's that the people using it are not secure at all.

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[-] Naevermix@lemmy.world 55 points 4 months ago
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[-] Uniquitous@lemmy.one 48 points 4 months ago

These fucking fools, these incompetent baboons. Gods damn the whole lot of 'em.

[-] massacre@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

You are assuming it wasn't puposeful. And clearly it's been going on a while. They only got caught due to their incompetence

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[-] prole 41 points 4 months ago
[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 22 points 4 months ago

The French Revolution can't come back soon enough

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[-] Floon@lemmy.ml 33 points 4 months ago

If the GOP had an iota, a molecule, a QUARK of integrity, the cabinet would be impeached en masse. They are a disaster.

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[-] Itwasntme223@discuss.online 28 points 4 months ago

I'm shocked....but I'm also not shocked. This has gotten to the point that you think they can't one up themselves and then they go and do it.

[-] Klutzikaze@reddthat.com 25 points 4 months ago

I'm looking forward to anyone using the word 'signal' around trump being suspected of mocking him.

Sensitive egotistical maniacs are so much fun to placate.

[-] ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 20 points 4 months ago

Full texts got released! See update on the Atlantic!

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago
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[-] njm1314@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Literally zero chance they weren't monitoring his phone while he was in the country.

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 27 points 4 months ago

Why monitor what he went there to inform them about?

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