Pressure is building on Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The Washington Post first reported and the News Hour confirmed that Hegseth had the unclassified messaging app Signal installed on a computer in his Pentagon office. All of this is unfolding as chaos is mounting at the Pentagon with the firings of top Hegseth aides.

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        funny joke, but it probably doesn’t matter. the most powerful arsenal in the world is kept safe for a fucking reason. this is just so much more beyond malice or incompetence.

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          The DoD provides its unclassified network with an Internet connection and the software it needs to do the job, while keeping this baselined and secured (or as secure as an Internet connection can be). Dirty Internet is just a commercial line with zero safeguards. This is so far beyond accidentally bringing your phone or smartwatch into a SCIF. He asked for his computer in the Pentagon to bypass all network security otherwise in place

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            …and that request was either granted or he just did it anyway. and it wasn’t caught. or it was, but he’s the boss. this is all just giving “this is what you get when you put all the bullies in charge of the school” to me.