“National Security Advisor”. Leaves friends list public. Invites random journalists to Signal chats. Doesn’t notice he invited random journalist to Signal chat for days. Discusses live war plans in unsecured channel. Discusses live war plans in unsecured channel with a journalist in the chat.
Title checks out. :-\
They replaced the deep state with the derp state.
Maybe he’s secretly anti-MAGA?
Clean on OPSEC
I can’t believe I’m saying this, but Venmo isn’t exactly transparent about this.
You might think “Easy, go into settings, mark it ‘Private’, right?”
Well, no, your past transactions can still be visible so now you need to change that:
And then your friends list is a THIRD setting:
Yeah but the national security advisor for the United States should know better.
Agreed, but isn’t he also a Boomer? :)
The Friends setting is SUPER easy to miss and even set to private, you have to flip the slider so you won’t appear on other people’s friends lists.
NGL, I almost missed it coming in to do these screenshots. I can’t shake the feeling that I’m STILL missing something, but then the only thing people will see is what I pay my yard guy. :)
This is why they aren’t supposed to use their personal phones anyway.
Right, but senior politicians can just get someone who’s a proper expert to lock their phone down.
This is true, or, you know, be forced to use secure government equipment and not burner phones. :)
He’s GenX.
They are the olds but not seniles
Yeah, I’m paranoid, turn off location services for nearly all apps, frozen credit, locked down bank account, friends only everywhere… and I missed this. Useful public service announcement by Wired.
Yuge thanks for this chief–we need someone doing psa’s on ish like this… Maybe a whole sublemmy too. I’m opsec buffoon and very grateful for the wizards that share their knowledge
Thanks!
When boomers have to use zoomers tech.
Venmo isn’t Zoomer tech, and quite honestly your average Zoomer doesn’t make their shit private and it’s so goddamn annoying
Meh. Is there anyone who has kept perfect OpSec for their whole life?
I’ve been trying but, under national scrutiny, I’m sure I must have leaked personal data everywhere.
