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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had an internet connection that bypassed the Pentagon’s security protocols set up in his office to use the Signal messaging app on a personal computer.

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[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 16 hours ago (3 children)

i’m starting to doubt these AP sources… well i always did but this time they’re saying things i want to here….

but what did he do? did he call up Cox cable and have them install a line to the Pentagon? are they letting random contractors with a hard hat and a clipboard run wires straight into the pentagon?

it seems physically impossible to me….

pics or it didnt happen

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The dude is the Secretary of Defense. If he tells the people that work at the Pentagon to set up a line, what do you think they'd do? Refuse to follow orders? If they do that, then they're fired.

So they set up the line... then leak it to the press.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 7 hours ago

possibly, but i remain skeptical….
for example, it’s probably illegal for them to do that, with ton of rules preventing that….

just seems far fetched, unlike him texting war plans….

could very well be a red herring… like a deliberate, easily disproven, fake leak to take away from what he actually did….

mayhaps… i don’t know.
the signal text is more likely and he included a journalist so it’s corroborated….

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 12 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

starlink in the window maybe?

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 8 points 16 hours ago
[–] Infynis@midwest.social 5 points 15 hours ago
[–] ShellMonkey@lemmy.socdojo.com 3 points 15 hours ago

https://fedscoop.com/house-oversight-democrats-white-house-starlink-installation/

Not the first spot they've used muskrat's ISP to avoid security.

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

pretty sure the pentagon has fancy radio equipment….

some dumb shit could’ve happened, as is the american way… i just find it pretty far fetched

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

fascist cronyism doesn't require everyone to be a crony. just enough people to flummox the people who actually give a shit. if boozey pete had some high ranking DOGE dope install a starlink connection point in his office, and got enough high ranking officials to be cool with it, that's enough to get it done even if most people there find this to be a problem.

it's not about the bad ones doing evil. it's about convincing the good ones there's nothing to be done. as the saying goes, all evil needs is for good men to do nothing. well. fascism is mostly about manufacturing consent by convincing you to do nothing

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 hours ago

i heard the reason they want canada is because that’s where most americans would flee to… btw….

[–] Zahtu@feddit.org 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Maybe he just brought a mobile Hotspot Into the Office. I Imagine, that there is still a mobile Phone Connection possible from within the Pentagon, No? The only Thing that stops you from using is the Phonehardware Provider by Pentagon, which can Not connect to insecure mobile Phone towers?

[–] xor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

bringing a phone hotspot is not the same thing as wiring in an insecure network connection… and i would assume the pentagon would jam cell phones but im not working for… whoever is supposed to be securing that place…

[–] Zahtu@feddit.org 2 points 9 hours ago

Well thats the Point hegseth probably Made with the persons pointing it Out before: you are working there for him. That is what they think and what they want the World to believe, the punny little narcisists that they are.

The Guys who have Accountability over such Things are Not usually the Guys doing the operations stuff.