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My understanding is that the use of signal started during biden's term. Is this not true?





Are you being intentionally nonspecific? The use of Signal for some purpose doesn't somehow mean it is appropriate for any purpose.

During Obama they used a shared Gmail account by passing messages using the drafts feature.

Who is "they"?

The director of the CIA sending sexts (and as it later turned out, classified materials) to his mistress.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petraeus_scandal

He was fired the day after it reached Obama's desk, and eventually got a slap on the wrist and two years' probation.


Thanks for the link! It looks like this affair over webmail sparked a lot of investigation and resulted in a firing, two years probation, and a $100,000 fine. That sounds like a great start for this kind of thing and they were just talking dirty, not actively sharing mission details!

Overall, yes let's please investigate and appropriately punish wrongdoing at all levels.


Nope

Do you have any evidence?


Very different. See my response here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43859373


Not true at all. The use of Signal started during Obama's first or second term. While the app's first release was during his second term, it existed under various names and forms way back. Wikipedia has a great article on its history.

I personally started using signal some time around 2018 and I'm sure there were millions of users by the time Biden began his term.


I thought the GP means that goverment officials such as the Secretary of Defense started using Signal during Biden's administration (though with no basis for that offered, yet).


Right. They also use cell phones and send emails. The difference is, from the Snopes article:

"... it explicitly did not allow use of Signal to communicate "non-public" Department of Defense information, which would have included the conversations Trump administration officials had in their group chat."




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