Former CIA official: Signal isn’t safe

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00:00War plans discussed there for military strikes in Yemen.

00:04Is this the sort of thing that high-ranking officials should be discussing on a forum like SIGNAL?

00:12What are your thoughts?

00:13Well, let me just say that I was 36 years in the intelligence community, 6 years on the National Security Council.

00:21I have never in my experience ever heard of anything like this.

00:27A White House communications agency builds exquisite systems that they install in our homes.

00:35They put skiffs in our homes.

00:37These are classified areas for us to discuss operational matters, covert actions, war plans, whatever.

00:45The whole point is to have an exclusive U.S. government system fully maintained for these kinds of conversations.

00:55Why anybody would think that SIGNAL, a commercial system that can be broken, would be an appropriate place to discuss such matters is beyond me.