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#PeteHegseth #Signal messages came from #email classified #SECRET by #Pentagon #IG. The revelation contradicts the #Trump administration’s long-standing claims that no #classified information was shared by the defense secretary’s account during the #Signalgate #scandal. No action has been taken to date. #yemen #houthis #defense #military #classified #documents #secret thehill.com/policy/defense/541 #trump #maga #corruption #military

Do other folks have a wonky #signal experience over the last days too? Not sure if just one of our devices is acting up or if signal has some problems with stability.
A load of old groups are popping up, like 20-30. On my end as message requests, because I deleted them already.
And some messages, maybe mostly reactions, are delayed, for some hours in some cases.

Via #TheNewRepublic @ 5:16pm ET on July 23, 2025

The #WashingtonPost reports that #DefenseSecretary #PeteHegseth’s infamous #Signal messages regarding strikes on #Yemen — which were shared in a group chat that inadvertently included Atlantic editor in chief #JeffreyGoldberg — derived from a classified email from General #MichaelKurilla, according to evidence obtained by the #Pentagon inspector general’s office.

#SignalGate

newrepublic.com/post/198301/pe

The New Republic · Pete Hegseth’s Signalgate Saga Somehow Gets WorseWe now know where Defense Secretary Hegseth got the information he shared in that infamous Signal group chat.
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#Signal for Desktop v7.64 release notes:

* We improved the message read/unread experience while multitasking, and fixed a bug that sometimes incorrectly opened the expanded image viewer if you hit the space bar while searching for the perfect emoji reaction. You can still zoom if you click on the image, or if you type quickly enough.

#petehegseth #signal #SignalGate #pentagon

“The Pentagon’s inspector general has received evidence that the military plans shared from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s Signal account to a group chat earlier this year were taken from a US Central Command document that was marked classified at the time, according to two people familiar with the ongoing review.”

cnn.com/2025/07/23/politics/pe

CNN · Pentagon watchdog has evidence Hegseth’s Signal messages included classified information, sources sayBy Natasha Bertrand

Many people on the #IETF wifi networks in Madrid are running into problems using @signalapp. My hypothesis is that the large number of users in a small number of IPv6 /64s is triggering some rate-limiting. Does #Signal have the ability to apply reputation and rate-limits on a /128 basis for specific /64s? (Clearly future IETFs should use /64-per-host as @abhayakara pointed out on the mailing list.)

#Mastodon doesn't have #e2ee #Matrix doesn't have #metadata privacy or #QuantumResistantEncryption and #Signal is centralised with single points of failure that can be corrupted subpoenad and seized by state actors. I daily drive #simplex simplex.chat bc it has e2ee, metadata privacy, quantum resistant encryption and also has the best anonymity and profile separation tools I've ever seen all while being #foss and #decentralised I know of no other messenger that can boast all this

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@delta I love the QR barcode features, to add your fellow contacts IRL: one phone reads the QR barcode of another, using the camera. :verified_blob_cat:

BTW: #Signal in #iOS, as of yet, still doesn't have a comparable QR barcode displaying or reading feature to add a contact.

I know I just shared @Mer__edith's SXSW talk with Guy Kawasaki, but I have to quickly check back in with a timecoded link, because if you hear nothing else of this (you should; you'll learn what communication privacy in the age of #SurveillanceCapitalism looks like), trust me when I say you need to hear her response to a question about impeding progress & innovation by not putting #AI in #Signal 🙌💛💪🤩 youtube.com/live/AyH7zoP-JOg?f

Let me be clear: That's not an opinion - that's fact.