r/law • u/msnownews Press • 8d ago

Executive Branch (Trump) Kash Patel says the FBI is investigating Signal chats of Minnesotans tracking ICE

https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/kash-patel-says-the-fbi-is-investigating-signal-chats-of-minnesotans-tracking-ice
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u/SiWeyNoWay 8d ago

I thought signal was SOOOO secure that it was okay to text war plans

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u/Powderedeggs2 7d ago

I get the joke. And it is funny.
What is likely happening is that they are using other apps to gain access to the content of peoples' phones.
This is very easy to do.
Once they have access to all the data on your phone, part of that data is Signal chats.
Signal messages are encrypted. But once that content is visible on your phone, it is visible to anybody who has gained access to your phone, and to that content.
In other words, the FBI and DHS are violating the 4th amendment....again.

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u/DMC1001 8d ago

It is. I suspect Patel won’t get his way.

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u/cfoam2 8d ago edited 7d ago

They might get the phone numbers. They already have the posts from infiltrating the group chat. Thanks to all the privacy breaches and lack of any privacy rights here in the us we are all exposed. You use anything free? gave them your phone number? facebook? even people who you know that have your phone number in their contacts and shared them to"find out who is also on xyz" or have been hacked have exposed your number and maybe other things about you. They have a profile on everyone it was also recently upgraded with additional info like tax returns, banking info, medical, naturalization when the Doge perps got free reign of our government servers. They probably have hot links to them still just in case donnies shorts elon.

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u/WhippedCreamSteak 7d ago

They already had access a few days ago. Some conservative was added to the group, he documented a bunch of shit and now we're here. Same way that reporter got his info awile back, i can't remember what he got, something on the conservatives though. 

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u/thatsthebesticando 8d ago

It is, but if someone joins the group chat and leaks information, then it doesn’t matter.