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Unsurprisingly, it keeps getting worse
#MikeWaltz & staff used #Gmail for government communications
#Trump’s #NationalSecurity adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team’s operational security are piling up.
#Signalgate #Signal #OpSec #military #idiocracy #kakistocracy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2025/04/01/waltz-national-security-council-signal-gmail/
Members of #Trump’s #NationalSecurity Council #NSC, including WH #NationalSecurity adviser #MikeWaltz, have conducted govt business over personal #Gmail accounts, acc/to documents reviewed by WaPo & interviews with three #US officials.
The use of #Gmail, a FAR LESS secure method of communication than the encrypted messaging app #Signal [which isn’t secure enough for these kinds of comms either], is the latest example of questionable #security practices by top #NationalSecurity ofcls already under fire for the mistaken inclusion of a journalist in a group chat about high-level planning for #military ops in Yemen.
A snr #MikeWaltz aide used the commercial email service for highly technical conversations w/colleagues at other govt agencies involving sensitive #military positions & powerful #weapons systems relating to an ongoing conflict, acc/to emails reviewed by WaPo. While the #NSC official used his #Gmail account, his interagency colleagues used govt-issued accounts, headers from the email correspondence show.
#MikeWaltz has had less sensitive, but potentially exploitable information sent to his #Gmail, such as his schedule & other work documents, said ofcls, who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe what they viewed as problematic handling of information. The ofcls said Waltz would sometimes copy & paste from his schedule into #Signal to coordinate meetings & discussions.
The use of personal email, even for unclassified materials, is risky given the premium value foreign #intelligence services place on the communications & schedules of senior govt ofcls, such as the #NationalSecurity adviser, experts say.
…Waltz has also created & hosted other #Signal chats w/Cabinet members on sensitive topics, including on #Somalia & #Russia’s war in #Ukraine, said a senior #Trump admin official.
Data #security experts have expressed alarm that US #NationalSecurity professionals are not…[just]…using the govt’s suite of secure encrypted systems for work communications such as JWICS, the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communications System.
Most concerning, however, is the use of personal email, which is widely acknowledged to be susceptible to hacking, spearfishing & other types of digital compromise.
“Unless you are using #GPG, email is not end-to-end encrypted, & the contents of a message can be intercepted & read at many points, including on Google’s email servers,” said Eva Galperin, director of #cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
#NationalSecurity experts have expressed alarm over the #Trump admin’s denial that the leaked #Signal chat contained #classified information.
what is frustrating most security professionals is that the government supplies devices that encrypt in the device and limit who can receive or decrypt.
but our orange-ego-in-chief and his crew of idiot thugs are far more concerned with not creating documentation/paper trails for what will hopefully be all their deserved trials for all the crimes they are committing. national security, US citizens, democracy, the environment can all go to hell.
I also honestly think they are just dumb & lazy. They won’t bother learning a new system they’re unfamiliar with. Easier to email the way they are used to, regardless of the fact that they’re not sharing memes with each other, but rather military operations.
i'm definitely getting more use from "never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity" these days. mostly i just assume both with this administration.
You are being way to generous. They are using their, "for our eyes only" methods to conceal everything they do and were quit comfortable with it. It is also a good way to conceal their incompetence.
@Savvyhomestead @Nonilex @paul_ipv6 If this administration is trying to conceal their incompetence, then they need to try a lot harder. What they are doing now ain't concealing shit.
@Nonilex@masto.ai @paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange You can fix uninformed. You can't fix willfully ignorant. And among the MAGA crowd, willful ignorance is a mark of virtue. They consider their studied ignorance at least as good as anyone else's knowledge, if not better.
@Nonilex normal emails are like postcards!
**Dilettanten olé**
- a German saying when it comes to total incompetence.