Yes, the adding of the reporter was a mistake but it wasn’t the only mistake.
One of the people in the group chat was in Russia.
I know you want to give them the benefit of the doubt. You want them to have been professionals who adequately did their jobs except for one minor flaw.
But there is nothing demonstrated by Pete that indicates that he HAS the capability of such professionalism – and he was the lead in this was he not? (the driving force for the bombing)
[yes Vance was there but he thought it was not a good idea]
Now, when I said earlier that I’ve been watching this story a bit – and you mentioned something about a “Democrats” group or something, the reason why it was annoying is you perhaps don’t understand my interest in this.
I’m not so concerned what was “allowed” but is it adequately secure?
Signal has been a high stakes target for hacking for some time now. Russia knows some common ways to infiltrate and looking at Pete’s info, it _seem as if_ he was successfully hacked, if you believe what’s been showing up in pastebin etc.
Even if not, even if this was a lower than high stakes but higher than “honey I’ll be back by 5pm”, it certainly _would seem_ to be at a level where at least a secure location would be warranted.
Because this was close as “out in the open” – and remember especially for the person in Russia, a simple spy camera nearby can read a consumer phone screen if it lacks one of those shields that forces you to look straight on.
and, there’s this.