HiramFromTheChi 👨🏽💻💭<p>Explained: U.S. government Signal "leak" a.k.a. "Signalgate"</p><p>TL;DR: There was no leak or cryptographic failure from Signal. Instead, the incident was due to human error where a government official mistakenly added a journalist to a Signal group chat.</p><p>Signal remains a secure and reliable platform for communication, and you should encourage your friends and family to use it.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/security" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>security</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/signal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>signal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/signalapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>signalapp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/signalgate" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>signalgate</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cybersecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybersecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/cybersec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cybersec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infosecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infosecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/infosec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>infosec</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/privacymatters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacymatters</span></a></p>