Signal group chat security lapse and its consequences

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The person who added a journalist to a Signal message thread that top national security officials used to discuss military strikes should resign if it was accidental and be fired and perhaps prosecuted if it was deliberate.

The air strikes on the Houthi terrorists in Yemen were, despite what appears to have been a communications blunder, a complete success, and no United States military personnel were injured.

Earlier this month, after Houthi forces had attacked 174 U.S. Navy vessels over the preceding year and a half, American F-18 fighter jets, Tomahawk cruise missiles, and aerial drones attacked dozens of targets, destroying facilities and killing key personnel responsible for terrorizing shipping lanes in the Red Sea.

By all accounts, the Houthis were surprised by the attack, but the Atlantic’s Jeffrey Goldberg was not, for he revealed he was somehow added to a Signal…

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