Signal, on your personal device, is fine for personal use. It is absolutely not fine for classified communication as the VP or head of DoD, as there are billions of dollars dedicated to compromising your phone.
The encryption doesn’t mean shit if they breach an endpoint or account.
That’s absolutely correct. Everyone seems to fixate on the encryption, but hackers are lazy and they’ll attack whatever is weakest. In this case that means the storage on the phone after it’s decrypted.
Don’t store classified information on your phone, regardless of what you use to transmit it.
It’s this one
It was, actually. If they weren’t dipshits it wouldn’t have been a problem.
Signal, on your personal device, is fine for personal use. It is absolutely not fine for classified communication as the VP or head of DoD, as there are billions of dollars dedicated to compromising your phone.
The encryption doesn’t mean shit if they breach an endpoint or account.
That’s absolutely correct. Everyone seems to fixate on the encryption, but hackers are lazy and they’ll attack whatever is weakest. In this case that means the storage on the phone after it’s decrypted.
Don’t store classified information on your phone, regardless of what you use to transmit it.
Or better yet, do whatever the heck security experts tell you to do. I can only imagine what’s standard procedure for the president’s cabinet.