Dark Reading: OPSEC Nightmare: Leaking US Military Plans to a Reporter

However, as Calli Schroeder, senior counsel and global privacy counsel for data security nonprofit the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), tells Dark Reading, “It is not ‘communicate war plans’ levels of secure.” She added that Signal is not approved for use when discussing sensitive national security issues and not one of the approved methods for sharing classified information. 

“Because Signal is not approved for use on government devices, this implies that either participants in this chat were discussing classified information on their personal devices (which could mean they were doing so in public places on public cell networks) or they downloaded an unapproved application on government devices,” Schroeder explains. “Either scenario is grossly irresponsible and a serious breach of security.” 

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