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Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by solotronics on Thursday January 23, 2020 @09:03PM (#22134718)
You are assuming Signal is not already subverted by US Gov.
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Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by tptacek on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:11PM (#22135066)
Like virtually everyone literate in these kinds of systems.
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Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by closeparen on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:08PM (#22135051)
You don't use covert intelligence capabilities to satisfy enterprise IT policy controls.

"Oh don't worry about TLS interception for the office firewall, we can break RSA anyway" is not how a bureaucracy thinks. Come on.

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Re:82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on governm... by ryacko on Friday January 24, 2020 @12:21AM (#22135609)
>not how a bureaucracy thinks. Come on.

Conspiratorial bureaucracies operate that way. Trust no one, allow nothing that can be used to undermine...

Read Memoirs Found in a Bathtub.

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