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The High Cost of Team Trump’s Sloppy OpSec
Anyone surprised by the news of this week’s bizarre leak has forgotten the long record of security failures in Trump’s first term.
Eight years later and the dumb keeps coming: In a stunning new security lapse revealed Monday, top Trump administration officials included Atlantic editor Jeffrey Goldberg in their group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal. Recall that, less than a month after first taking office in 2017, Trump conducted an emergency meeting on a surprise North Korea ballistic missile launch with Japan’s prime minister at Mar-a-Lago, in view of resort guests with smartphones. That alone was easily worse than any information security breach Hillary Clinton did —or other notable examples, such as Joe Biden, Mike Pence, and David Petraeus—not least because those individuals cooperated with federal officials, while Trump repeatedly lied and defied the law.
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