When Signal was designed, our threat model was protecting the communications of civil society, journalists, just regular citizens ...
The threat model of military operations & sharing your hate of Europeans was not what Signal was designed for. Ephemeral messages and cryptographic deniability are not fit for communications that require accountability.
But I appreciate their effort to make government more efficient by adding journalists to the chat instead of requiring to go through FOIA.
@fj sharing your hate?
Did you read the release? There wasn't hate of Europeans. There was only discussion of the terms of partnership and normal concerns of political framing.
@apas_csc I don't know if you spend a lot of time around folks who buy into the philosophy of hate the sin but love the sinner, but that's a very common way of talking.
This administration seems to come from a culture that leans into that sort of rhetoric.
I emphasize the thing I emphasize a lot: Trump is an absolutely dreadful communicator, and even his supporters occasionally accidentally admit that. This whole administration is shaped by talking in ways that are are ineffectual both in terms of communication and policy making. It's one of the most regressive parts of having this guy in office.
But, It's one of those know thy enemies things where you have to understand what they're saying if you want to counter them and defang the offensive things they do on substance.
Otherwise, you end up attacking the red towel instead of the Matador, and it just plays into their game.
I'm not even sure this leak was an accident because so far what I see is a lot of people reacting to it in ways that benefit them.
