NatSec Advisor Says Elon Musk Is Probing Major Security Leak: ‘We Have the Best Technical Minds Looking at How This Happened’ (www.mediaite.com)
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30p87@feddit.org on 26 Mar 2025 09:46 next collapse

Elon Musk Is Probing Major Security Leak: ‘We Have the Best Technical Minds Looking at How This Happened’

That’s right on the level of “True is False” on the Oxymoron scale.

Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de on 26 Mar 2025 13:21 collapse

I think what they mean is that, technically, Musk has a mind.

Paul_1958@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 2025 09:46 next collapse

‘The best technical minds’, It happened because they are morons.

d00phy@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 2025 11:05 next collapse

Yeah, do we really need a deep dive for RCA here!? It’s pretty obvious that incompetent people behaved incompetently.

YesButActuallyMaybe@lemmy.ca on 26 Mar 2025 19:24 next collapse

Yes and also the biggest balls president musk and governor krasnov have ever seen. And his dick almost as big as Arnold Palmer’s

Ledericas@lemm.ee on 27 Mar 2025 07:30 collapse

the ones that wont be hirable any reputable employer in tech

Eldest_Malk@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 2025 09:53 next collapse

Given the fact that the editor in chief of The Atlantic was added to the chat by Mike Waltz, I’m going to suggest that any money DOGE spends trying to figure this out is waste, fraud, and/or abuse, and the best way for DOGE to fight that is to dismantle itself.

Also imprison these lawbreaking buffoons.

kescusay@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 2025 10:02 next collapse

Nah, DOGE is going to discover that The Atlantic is at fault for this somehow, and have all its management arrested.

We live in the stupidest timeline.

Bronzebeard@lemm.ee on 26 Mar 2025 10:35 collapse

Given that DOGE has already wasted $500 billion…I didn’t think they’ll care

tal@lemmy.today on 26 Mar 2025 09:57 next collapse

“How did a Trump-hating editor of The Atlantic end up on your Signal chat?” Laura Ingraham asked.

“You know, Laura, I’m not a conspiracy theorist,” Waltz replied. “But of all the people out there, somehow this guy who has lied about the president, who has lied to Gold Star families, lied to their attorneys, and gone to Russia hoax, gone to all kinds of lengths to lie and smear the president of the United States and he’s the one that somehow gets on somebody’s contact and then gets sucked into this group.”

Honestly, I really hope that the next administration, regardless of which party it is, dispenses with the constant and unending stream of bullshit. I really don’t want this sort of thing to become established as the new normal.

It’s not even over a significant issue here; it seems like an insane thing to use credibility on. Like, Waltz could say “I clicked on the wrong person”, and I don’t think that anyone is going to wig out about it. The fact that they were on Signal in the first place, not to mention using poor operational security while on it is the much more concerning issue, but he’s not denying that.

WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 2025 11:44 next collapse

The firehose of horseshit has been a hallmark of conservatives everywhere for like 2 decades. It’s already their normal.

naught101@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 2025 12:08 collapse

It’s a feature, not a bug.

WhoIsTheDrizzle@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 2025 22:39 collapse

Unfortunately the people he is trying to convince are too stupid to think critically or even think logically about the root cause of the issue. He can mask his own incompetence through personal attacks and the idiotic brain-washed base will eat it up, one clip at a time.

TheDeadlySquid@lemm.ee on 26 Mar 2025 11:21 next collapse

The blind leading the blind.

ATDA@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 2025 11:52 next collapse

Waltz admitted to doing it. They admitted to using a fucking app over established communications to avoid being on the record. That’s your investigation. Luckily it’s so simple I bet even musks teenagers could figure it out.

BreadstickNinja@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 2025 11:57 next collapse

Yeah, but they’re not being paid to uncover that particular truth. Watch them somehow lock up the journalist over this.

tal@lemmy.today on 26 Mar 2025 14:56 next collapse

They admitted to using a fucking app over established communications to avoid being on the record

January 20, 2025, Inauguration Day. Trump releases a statement on his top priorities for his presidency:

whitehouse.gov/…/president-trumps-america-first-p…

President Trump’s America First Priorities

DRAIN THE SWAMP

President Trump is taking swift action to end the weaponization of government against political rivals and ordering all document retention as required by law.

March 11, 2025. Jeffrey Goldberg receives chat group invitation for Cabinet-level officials for planning attack on Yemen.

I see that top Trump priorities on swamp-draining lasted — assuming, perhaps generously, that this was the first such incident with Signal — almost seven weeks.

Well, okay. I don’t know about the weaponization of government against political rivals. I seem to recall what looked like rather a lot of that, actually. But at least the document retention.

ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one on 28 Mar 2025 00:53 collapse

Luckily it’s so simple I bet even musks teenagers could figure it out.

You are giving Musky’s teenagers way too much credit.

dan1101@lemm.ee on 26 Mar 2025 12:50 next collapse

Holy shit this isn’t a technical problem it’s a problem of them all blatantly ignoring any and all security standards. "Oh this Signal thing says it is encrypted, let’s use that. Hey everyone download this app off the app store and we will discuss bombing another country on it.’

atzanteol@sh.itjust.works on 26 Mar 2025 12:56 next collapse

Waltz said not to worry because Elon Musk is on the case

🤣 Oh God we’re so screwed…

Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 2025 13:26 next collapse

“We ordered the chief pimp to investigate the sex trafficking scandal.” Sure, what could go wrong?

sepi@piefed.social on 26 Mar 2025 14:18 next collapse

Oh good grief

technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 26 Mar 2025 14:45 next collapse

[That Star Wars meme]

Anakin: It’s embarrassing how our plan for genocide leaked.

Leia: You’re embarrassed about the genocide, right?

Anakin: …

Leia: …

SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 2025 18:41 collapse

Padmé, not Leia, but yeah.

P1k1e@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 2025 15:33 next collapse

Hahahahhahaha

fox2263@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 2025 19:46 next collapse

Inb4 the government now uses X Secure Messaging.

massacre@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 2025 20:03 next collapse

Best Technical Mids <> Elon Musk

Pick one.

Tattorack@lemmy.world on 26 Mar 2025 20:42 next collapse

“How did this happen!?”

Your leaders are absolute fucking morons, that’s how. There really isn’t anything to actually investigate here.

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Treczoks@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 2025 08:07 next collapse

You don’t need a technical mind to find an error with terminally stupid and incompetent users.

filcuk@lemmy.zip on 27 Mar 2025 10:59 collapse

But you might need one to create a way of covering up that incompetence

KeenFlame@feddit.nu on 27 Mar 2025 13:40 next collapse

Noooo… Anyone but the best technical minds… They don’t have anything better to do?

13igTyme@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 2025 14:06 next collapse

“You’ve been added by Michael Waltz”

Even if we pretend Musk and his group of children aren’t incompetent, this isn’t hard.

rxbudian@lemmy.ca on 27 Mar 2025 20:05 next collapse

The better technical mind would’ve avoided the security leak to begin with.

mumblerfish@lemmy.world on 27 Mar 2025 21:21 next collapse

Looking at [making up a reason for] how this happened

Is how I read that. Probably with the goal to throw the journalist in a camp.

Akasazh@feddit.nl on 27 Mar 2025 23:13 next collapse

‘American Govt announces to buy Signal’

harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 28 Mar 2025 04:37 collapse

Nuclear codes about to drop on Telegram.