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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone smarter than me explain why Signal, which uses AES-256 encryption protocol, is less secure than government TS systems, which also use AES-256?

Just asking as a non-tech person.[/quote]

Not a tech person but I am in a Signal group. A few things.  When I join Signal, I see all of my phone contacts who also have Signal. So I can message them there.

Even if Signal is secure, your phone isn't. If I were stopped at the airport and customs made me open my phone, they'd see it all.

And within the app, we have people joining and leaving on a regular basis, not necessarily with their real names. So who knows who's in there and what they see?  I don't know if that author had his full name listed, or whether he was going by his initials and the group originator thought he was someone else.  But it's easy to make mistakes. Like Hegseth could have "thought" he was texting to that group, but mistakenly texted to another Signal group.  So he could have shared sensitive information with anyone in his larger circle.

And, again, even though Signal is secure, I can take screen shots of it and share.  Even at my government job, where we are nobodies, there is a microsoft application on our phones that prevents us from copying and pasting data from secure government apps, and stops me from screen shotting anything off secure government apps.  Signal doesn't have that. [/quote]

I want to add that all of these discussions are subject to record laws. Using Signal is clearly a way to get around that. How many laws were broken...[/quote]

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