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This right here, anyone who said signal is good enough for government communications is a Russian agent or just really f'N stupid.
It actually is secure enough if the group is not full of complete idiots that invite journalists without even noticing 🤣
Which also means they're very likely stupid enough that their phones are already compromised to begin with.
They're feeding all the details to Russia anyway so this doesn't matter.
One of the guys in the chat was hanging out in Russia at the time. Another wasn't exactly sure which country she was in at the time (which, to me, means probably north Korea)
No app controlled by a third party is secure enough for government communications as sensitive as military plans
The stuff private contractors write is typically complete crap with respect to security. There was never a leak where some proprietary communication software was leaked and all security researchers were stunned about how well though through everything was.
But the opposite happens all the time that some government funded closed source military software gets leaked and everybody start's laughing about how poorly that crap was implemented.
The surface of vulnerability of public apps includes the play store and Apple's app store both who are treating the software they distribute at far lower level of sensitivity. Governments don't publish encryptions they can break nor the ones they know adversaries can break. Even if the content of messages are secure, the timing and identity of people communicating can be compromised. There's many fundamental reasons signal should never be used for military communications.