@dave_andersen @AVincentInSpace personally I consider any "#KYC" a risk-factor, and @signalapp has proven their ability and willingness to restrict functionality (i.e. their #Shitcoin-#Scam #MobileCoin) based off said #PhoneNumbers (Cuban, Russian and North Korean Numbers were excluded) which are in fact #PII (even if one doesn't have to #ID for obtaining a #SIM, they are circumstantial PII)...

• They have neither "legitimate interest" nor legal mandate to collect said data (or to integrate a scammy Shitcoin for that matter) as the discontinuation of #ChatSecure / #TextSecure has eliminated the "technical necessity" to have those.

Either way they either have to yeet #Hegseth as client and/or stop collecting PII like PhoneNumbers - they gotta have to do something…

• As for #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec, I'd say #XMPP+#OMEMO remains the gold standard alongside #PGP/MIME...

#ITsec is a different story, but unlike #Signal these do not depend on a #PhoneNumber and work through @torproject / #Tor.

• And I've been using Tor for almost 15 years now...

@Walrus Makes no difference. The buffoon will still keep adding random people to his 'secret' #signal chats.

Even if he went ultra, ultra secure and learned how to use #ROT13, it wouldn't cure his stupidity.

@ErikUden Things linked directly and identifiably to you, like official documents inkl. boarding passes you should not post on social media unredacted, or ideally, not at all. #justmy2cents #opsec

@GottaLaff the sheer fact that he didn't get jailed for this violation of #ITsec, #InfoSec, #ComSec & #OpSec rules is propably making #RealityWinner and #ChelseaManning scream internally at max volume.

• IMHO #Hegseth should he sharing a cell with #Ames because he's just a risk to #NatSec!

@druid @signalapp

Problem with Signal, I keep getting accidentally included in top secret #US war planning chats by someone called Pete Hesgeth. It's starting to get tedious. I've never even met the chap or have any interest in bombing innocent civilians.

@glynmoody

The Foureyes have no reason to share any intel with the US because it will probably be leaked.

“A launch of an attack there is just no-way, no-how, that an American #military operation starting off is going to not be #classified for Lord's sake," retired Marine Lt. Col. Mick Wagoner said.

And #Hegseth's #defense also tacitly confirms that he shared those details w/people, like his wife, he knew were not authorized to have the information.

"If you remember…I said no one is texting war plans," #Hegseth said on FauxNews. "What was shared over #Signal then [during the first leak, which surfaced last month] & now was informal, unclassified coordinations for media coordination [&] other things."

But the details he shared, 2hrs before airstrikes hit in Yemen, almost certainly were #classified, acc/to ret Marine Lt Col Mick Wagoner, who was a #military lawyer for 17 years & deployed to 4 war zones.

@shoppingtonz @alternativeto @torproject granted, those cases are "nieche" as in "extreme low latency applications" are out.of scope for #Tor as they are intrinsically incompatible with a self-routing #Proxy network.

• Also proper #OpSec, #InfoSec, #ComSec & #ITsec teaches to never mingle identities and activities...

@QasimRashid Didn't #RealityWinner and #ChelseaManning get jailed for far less impact on #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec than #Hegseth?