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Godspeed to our OPSEC (fedia.io)
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[-] green@feddit.nl 98 points 9 months ago

This is why "fake it till you make it" should've been bullied out of existence.

What is this guy even saying? No one talks like that.

It's like being a cashier and saying "we are currently zeroed on our balances 🤓" , lmao. Not only do you not have enough info to make this claim (ever), but you were beyond incompetent with the failure.

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 61 points 9 months ago

No one can see what I’m posting here.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 31 points 9 months ago

Why the hell does this just say hunter2???

[-] quack@lemmy.zip 12 points 9 months ago

Does it? I just see *******

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 9 months ago

I just copied and pasted your comment. Does that look funny to you?

[-] Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Here, I'll try and help cleared the formatting, any better?

[-] noride@lemm.ee 22 points 9 months ago

Whats with the blank comment, pal?

[-] callyral@pawb.social 4 points 9 months ago

why is this comment prompting me for a password

[-] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 56 points 9 months ago

Also haven't heard anyone mentioning this, but late on the Friday before this story was published, Hegseth's chief of staff sent a late night memo threatening anyone that leaks classified information to the press by saying they're going to start doing polygraph tests at DOD, and said

“If this effort results in information identifying a party responsible for an unauthorized disclosure,” then such information “will be referred to the appropriate criminal entity for criminal prosecution,”

So threatening to turn Department of Defense employees over to the authorities for leaking classified information to reporters if they fail a polygraph (which isn't even admissible in court bc they give false positives so often).

Then it turns out, oops the guy trying to intimidate everyone texted classified information to a reporter in a group chat and now it's a story in the Atlantic

https://apnews.com/article/leaks-pentagon-polygraph-trump-investigation-685b08e14d813050a722cec89eb5c323

[-] T156@lemmy.world 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Polygraphs aren't scientific anyway. All you're really doing is seeing if they're nervous or not.

Making someone nervous by threatening them with a polygraph is arguably more effective than the polygraph itself.

[-] sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 17 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I would wager a guess that they were contacted for a comment on the story before release and this is Hegseth telling everyone to shut up and not say anything to the press. Timing makes it seem related.

[-] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 9 points 9 months ago

Damn, I've been so distracted with the everything else I didn't even think of that, but yeah sounds about right.

Little fucking fascists typing up their big scary memos to prove how much they love trampling on rights

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago

"Yeah, we all use Signal at work. Pete said it's the most secure app"

[-] EpeeGnome@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

"will be referred to the appropriate criminal entity for criminal prosecution"

I had to check that your quote was correct, because that doesn't seem like the words they probably meant to use. Though, now that I think of it, the current administration referring someone to a "criminal entity" is all too plausible.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 3 points 9 months ago

If you read the full transcript of all of the released signal messages it's pretty obvious that they always talk like that.

They probably attended some seminar on public speaking by some hack and they were told to sound "alpha" in their communications. It's a sort of thing these idiots would obsess about.

[-] AcidicBasicGlitch@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

According to the AP it's a direct quote from the memo written by the finest legal minds Trump's money can buy

[-] twinnie@feddit.uk 46 points 9 months ago

It’s not like in the movies where the red lights and alarms start going off to say you’re getting hacked.

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 57 points 9 months ago

Yeah it just says "Michael Waltz has added you to the group" lmao

[-] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

That's exactly what a hacker would say 🤔

/s. Just in case

[-] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 33 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is some cringey ass airsoft tacticool bs

[-] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 28 points 9 months ago

This is the kind of shit people who larp Call of Duty say

People who actually do this for their job do not talk like this

[-] kamenlady@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They are larpers - but i would even say real government larpers (is that a thing?) would do a much better job playing the government, than the trump bunch.

Larpers are known to be passionate about the subject.

[-] Kit 27 points 9 months ago

What does "clean on OPSEC" mean?

[-] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 90 points 9 months ago

OPSEC is Operational Security, basically they're saying that their communication channels are secure. Plot twist, they're not because they don't actually know who is on their signal chat.

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 19 points 9 months ago

The question is who the fuck did they think they were adding?

[-] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

They're morons who don't have a clue what they're doing. They likely weren't thinking.

[-] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 9 months ago

Nothing. They were LARPing.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 11 points 9 months ago

Why would you even write OPSEC is secure, being secure is its whole point. You don't go around telling everyone it's secure, just like you don't go around telling everyone that the building isn't currently on fire.

It's just it's a new word he's recently learned, and he's damn well going to use it.

[-] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 5 points 9 months ago

Because Hegseth is an insecure, unqualified try-hard who is more focused on using terminology and buzzwords associated with actual competency... than actually being competent.

Its linguistic peacocking.

[-] blackbelt352@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Opsec is more about the processes of confirming that you know exactly where important information is and knowing there are as few potential leaks and risks to that information getting into unintended hands. Saying you've got clean opsec is about confirming that you've gone through the proper steps to keep communications secret.

Personally I've called for opsec before with different friend groups when different crises have arisen and I need a group of people to help another out who's in a bad mental state without tipping them off to things that might become dangerous.

[-] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 46 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

OPSEC means Operational Security. He texted a journalist that everything was still hush hush.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 21 points 9 months ago

our warriors

imagine becoming the secretary of defense and still being a larper

[-] Hupf@feddit.org 3 points 9 months ago

Imagine sounding like Gaius Baltar

[-] CuriousRefugee@lemmy.ml 21 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

It would suck for the Atlantic and Jeff Goldberg, but I almost hope that they charge him with distributing classified info for posting the plans. The courts would absolutely WRECK the government in that case

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 20 points 9 months ago

That's probably why the government is saying nothing in the chat is classified.

[-] TheBat@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

The courts that are filled with judges simping for Trump, those courts?

[-] tempest@lemmy.ca 7 points 9 months ago

Even if the courts ruled against them ( probably after 5 years of waffling about) what enforcement is going to happen?

[-] werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago

Elon....We are Go for lunch!....I mean Launch!

... And the vehicle is going thru MECO Main engine cutoff.... That's when the vehicle is at its highest hydrozunamic temperature range.....

All this shit is old school NASA lingo that should stay in NASA where it matters. At home, I don't run around texting my wife "main motor engaged" when the washing machine starts to go chacka chacka. I say "yes ma'am, I'm doing the laundry.

We are launching this rocket in 5 minutes. Oh man look at how awesome the fireball looks! Stuff like that, not cryptic NASA shit that nobody cares about other than the engineers and the crew.

[-] MHLoppy@fedia.io 11 points 9 months ago

Hopefully no deceptive button pressing this time @cRazi_man@lemm.ee xoxo

[-] shittydwarf@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 9 months ago

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

You know what, at least the evil people are incompetent

[-] LonstedBrowryBased@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

Lmao

[-] samus12345@lemm.ee 2 points 9 months ago

F

[-] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 1 points 9 months ago
  • Write to the group chat on a commercial platform with your non government phone (and have at least one member of the group in russia at the time)
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