Honestly, It’s a pretty major fuck up. It makes the headline inaccurate by 2 orders of magnitude…

Cause a million bees is what… A dozen hives? I just googled it and it’s literally my body weight in bees. Which now that I’ve said it out loud, is sort of terrifying, but you know what I mean.

You really think that?

I mean, people are people. We do some stupid and shitty things.

Well I mean, if anyone needs to know, it’s him, right?

“Rolling your own” cryptographic system is rarely a good idea. There are countless examples of companies and governments deciding to ignore existing tested and verified standard industry tools on the basis they’re more vulnerable because they’re more well known, but that decision tends to bite them in the end because the solution they come up with has some critical vulnerabilities they didn’t notice in time. These things are easy to miss when there isn’t a whole global community of security professionals looking at the code.

Now I’ll admit that the US government could absolutely create a comparable or even superior solution if they put the right people and enough funding behind the project, no doubt. There is the question of whether or not it’s worth doing, worth the investment. If budgets are tight (because conservatives are so concerned about govt spending 🙄), I’d certainly rather they use signal than they decide to dedicate almost enough funding and develop something that almost works; that could also be disastrous.

Honestly, the best move for the government is probably to make their own app utilizing existing standards. The signal protocol is perfectly open and free, they just need their own clients. Well, that and some identity verification in the account creation process. But yeah, If they had their own app, they could design it to do some useful things, like verify all members in a group have appropriate security clearance. That might have come in handy…

So yeah, I don’t really disagree with you, they should probably be using their own system. But I think it’s easy to think that any bespoke system would inherently be superior, and that very much isn’t the case. And with that in mind I’d say it’s truly not a crazy or negligent choice to use the existing best-of-class systems off the shelf. It’s maybe not the best choice, but it’s not a bad one.

Yes, they have some secure communications systems, but none that are safe to use on a mobile device. Signal is literally more advanced than what they’re using. It’s far from insane.

Yeah, this article was truly a fascinating read! The one thing that surprised me from Goldberg though, was that he continually questioned their use of signal. I mean, why wouldn’t they use it?

They could try to develop their own secure messaging app, but what would be the point of that when another already exists and they can verify the code is air tight because it’s open source. And, developing their own app would mean the possibility of relying on software that could contain unknown bugs or vulnerabilities.

The only safe cryptographic systems are open source ones.

I’ve played a lot of post apocalyptic video games, lately those experiences are beginning to feel more relevant than I ever wanted… But across all of them, one constant has always remained true: slavers are kill on sight.

Ah, that makes some sense. Seems like a problem that really needs to be addressed, the last thing we need is more barriers (especially financial ones) to the legal process. We need to be encouraging people to claim all the rights and representation that they’re deserved.

Yeah, that second lawyer took one hell of a gamble. I see where they were coming from, but those are extremely risky dice to roll… And now their client is in more trouble than ever… Critical failure.

And the first lawyer… I have nothing to say, what a dumbass.

The article says she’s a “legal permanent us resident”. It’s a little weird that she’s been living in the US for 37 years and never got her citizenship. I wonder what that’s about.

Best answer.

You know what would increase government efficiency? We could completely disband the department of homeland security.

The entire agency is a redundant racist waste of money. There’s literally no reason for it to exist except for unfounded white fear.

This is semantics, because that’s the same thing.

If you want to sell now you have to sell at a lower price, to have your put orders at the top of the stack. So the reason they were selling a lower price was just that they actually wanted to sell.

Sure, you can put an order to sell at some optimistic price, and that won’t effect the stock price, but simply having a put order on a stock is not actually the same as wanting to sell. People actually wanting to sell now lowered the stock price.

Well, while it is possible that the military does provide a nonviolent strategy along with their other ideas, do know that Trump will reject that out of hand. As I mentioned earlier, he’s not interested in “bad deals”, and any deal like this would have to at least be not terrible for Panama, and anything that doesn’t cripple Panama will be “a bad deal”.

That leaves Trump with only military force, I’m afraid he has no choice, his hands are tied… 🙄

Lol, finance (and thus financial reporting) is so braindead.

I’ll summarize the whole article: Why did RDDT crash? “Because the stock price went down. Some people sold the stock, so more people sold it, now the price is lower”

Thanks Yahoo finance, this is the journalism we rely on you for…

Who would take him?

Yeah, I believe you. This was relatively predictable from him.

Sigh… Worst timeline.

I have no idea what you’re saying…

What is not frightening about planning to start a war? Are you saying that you could take the canal without starting a war? What other way of acquiring it are you thinking of? What other strategies do you think exist? When you ask the military to come up with multiple strategies to accomplish something, you’re really asking them “would we have to put troops on the ground, or could we do this with a bombing campaign? What about the threat of violence and an illegal embargo?”. But if you employ the military in any strategy they come up with, you’re starting a war.

I mean, I guess we could offer to buy it, but it’s a cornerstone of their economy, we wouldn’t like the price. And Trump doesn’t go in for “bad deals” (paying for things).

It’s merely the cost of doing business like a criminal.

Cry like a baby all you want.