Donnie* can help you there
*Not the same Donnie.
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Are you sure?
I must watch that film again. Itâs been years.
Well, I did not know about this. Possibly should be in Tales from The Former Soviet Union.
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Beware of Greeks bearing gifts. Or anyone else for that matter.
As they say, the bug itself is hard to detect, but the illuminating beam needs to be pretty powerful so that should be easy enough to spot.
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I first read that as âBeware of Geeks bearing giftsâ, which kind of makes sense
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Timeo danaos et dona ferentes
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In the âLetâs tell the world our military plansâ department, hereâs a piece from a regular Signal user describing just what a monumental f*cking idiot youâd have to be to âaccidentallyâ let this slip.
"As someone who uses Signal every day, I need to explain how totally committed to being an absolute dumbass multiple people had to be in order for this security leak to happen.
Okay, so in Signal if you want to talk to multiple people you have to create a group and give it a name, for example âJD Vance Humps His Couch.â You then add people from your contacts to the group. If you are a competent user of Signal, you can then restrict the permissions so that only designated admins can add people. If you are an absolute dipshit whose only job qualification is pwning the libs on Twitter, you would create a group about war plans and not know about or activate this functionality.
If you are in a group and are allowed to add members, either because you are an admin or because the admin was raised on lead paint milkshakes, you then must do the following to add someone:
Click on âJD Vance Humps His Couchâ
Scroll down to âAdd Members.â
Select one or more people from your phoneâs contact list.
Click âUpdateâ
Confirm that yes, you want to add that member.
This is impossible to do accidentally.
Then, once you have gone through the multi-step process of adding a member, an announcement appears on the screen for literally everyone in the group to see: âJD Vance Has Added Chairry to the Group.â This sentence is a line in a single-stream text thread and if anyone is reading their messages they cannot miss it. (If they are not reading their messages, one might wonder why they have been included on the chat to begin with.)
At this point, anyone can say in the chat or privately, Hey JD, why are you adding the bedroom-eyed plush chair from Pee-Weeâs Playhouse to our chat about your upholstery problem?
Yet nobody in the war bro chat said a thing about the new member added to the group.
One other thing: Signal is supposedly a secure chat platform, but it is only as secure as whatever else people are doing on their phones. For example, if you send someone a Signal message asking about how to best protect your sensitive man parts against the sharp springs inside the voluptuous crack of your La-Z-Boy, you will later see ads in your browser for La-Z-Boy lube because your browser is spying on the things you do on your phone, even if the tech bros say they are not.
So even if the war bro chat were not full of hires from an affirmative action program for white fascist sycophants who graduated in the top 99% of their class, and they actually practiced basic common sense and literacy in maintaining their war bro chat, it would still be an insecure way of discussing matters of national security."
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Bummed Signal isnât a Chinese Co.
I bet theyâve hacked the fuck out of it thoâ 
There is comfort in there somewhere. Perhaps when they come out on top they will Troll the US and rename Washington Bejing 2.
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Perhaps Peeking would be more apt. 
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They are so dumb, maybe they thought, lets leak this like itâs a mistake and show how fucking hard we are ??? Again, more distraction from their destruction of the US of A from within, which suggests that they are not so dumb???
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White House âFaith Advisorâ Paula White . . .
If my spunk was sulphuric acid Iâd quite happily melt her god bothering, plastic, right wing faceâŚ
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Funny
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani interviewed by performance artist Crackhead Barney . . .
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12 countries now have updated travel advisories for the US: U.K., Germany, Canada, Mexico,
Finland, Denmark, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Netherlands, France, and Belgium.
And Namibia is deporting US business âvisitorsâ as fast as possible, having advised them they now need visas to be in the country. Seems theyâre fed up with US folk taking mineralsâŚ
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Thereâs no reporting of this by any news agency
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Not by Reuters, AP or similar but African agencies are carrying this:
"As from today, April 1st, the Namibian Government will require ever U.S Citizen coming into Namibia to be in possession of a Visa.
Any US citizen cĂŁught in Namibia without a fully approved Visa will be declared an âILLEGAL ALIENâ and treated exactly the same way Donald Trump treats African immigrants in the US.
After this announcement was made, over 500 US c!tizens who were mining Diamonds, Gold Uranium, Copper, and other minerals in Namibia without Visas applied for Visas so they could continue mining but were all rejÄcted and have been ordered to leave the country today (April 1st) or be brutally thrown out as from tomorrow. "
I strongly suspect the business detail is is an over-reach on the part of the reporting.
The visas are a fact - Namibia announced 8 months ago that all visitors from a list of ocuntries (including the US) would need a visa, effective from 1st April 2025.
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