The failure mode is that the Secretary of Defense unilaterally bypassed security protocols to use technology that had not been evaluated for that use case in a national security context by the appropriate experts.
It doesn't matter if he happened to use something that has a solid security model. The problem isn't Signal, it's that he ignored all the rules.
And it does have an impact, as we see in other news, because one failure mode of Signal is that it's super easy to add the wrong people to a group. Which has actually happened. Twice (at least.)
It doesn't matter if he happened to use something that has a solid security model. The problem isn't Signal, it's that he ignored all the rules.
And it does have an impact, as we see in other news, because one failure mode of Signal is that it's super easy to add the wrong people to a group. Which has actually happened. Twice (at least.)