SignalGate Isn’t About Signal | WIRED

The eye scandal surrounding the accidental call to the Council of Ministers Trump to the editor -in -chief of the Atlantic Ocean to join a set of text messages is a secret to a bombing in Yemen, and entered its third day, and that this controversy now has the name: Signalgate, in reference to the fact that the conversation occurred in a signal reporter at the end of the end.

Since this name becomes an abbreviation of the largest public error in the second Trump administration to date, however, security and privacy experts who promoted the sign as the best encrypted tool available to the audience want to be clear about one thing: Signalgate is not related to the signal.

Since the ATLANTIC Editor, Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed on Monday that it was accidentally included in the chat group chat earlier this month that was created for planning US air strikes against the Houthi rebels in Yemen, and it appears that the reaction of the Cabinet Cabinets Trump and even the administration itself in some cases seems to blame the security signal. Some commentators indicated last month reports of the targeted hunting for reference by Russian spies. National Security Adviser Michael Waltz, who invited Goldberg to chat the signals group, suggested that Goldberg had penetrated it.

“Do not invite unreliable contacts in the chat group chat, to the director of the open encryption project: do not invite unreliable contacts in the chat group chat, that the real lesson is much simpler,” says Ken White, an encoding director and a safety researcher who conducted audits on the widely used encryption tools in the past as director of the open encryption project. And if you are a official working with sensitive or very classified information, use encrypted communication tools that work on restricted devices, and are often intended for air for very secret preparation instead of unauthorized devices that can work on applications available to the public such as signal.

White says: “Unambiguously, he does not blame this sign,” says White. “The sign is a communication tool designed for secret conversations. If someone is brought in a conversation that is not intended to be part of it, this is not a technical problem. This is a problem for the operator.”

Matt Green, Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, is simply put on. “The signal is a tool. If the tool is misused, it will create bad things,” says Green. “If you hit yourself with a hammer, this is not a hammer error. It is really you have to make sure that you know who you are talking to.”

The only meaning in which Signalgate is He is White, a signaling scandal, adds that the use of the signal indicates that the cabinet officials participating in the Houthi bombing plans, including Defense Minister Beit Higseth and the Director of National Intelligence Tolsi Gabbard, did not usually convert to the union. “In previous administrations, at least, this will be completely prohibited, especially for classified communications,” says White.

In fact, the use of the signal does not leave the internet connected to any person who can exploit in one way or another to penetrate the signal, but anyone can penetrate iOS, Android, Windows or Mac devices that may operate Signal Mobile or Desktop applications.