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Nice piece, but the author clearly doesn't understand encryption.
If you dont care about anonymity or availability, Signal is a fine place to discuss confidential topics like diplomacy or war. Encryption works, and open source tools are the most secure ones
Edit: they should probably run a private server, though. Just to make sure the userspace is limited somewhat and doesn't include literally anyone in the world.
Signal is not a suitable venue for hosting national security discussions. It's all laid out in the article that it goes beyond encryption.
The tldr is that the endpoint is insecure. These discussions should not be done on a mobile device, it should not be possible to participate in or view the contents of the discussion out in the open, and it should not even be possible to accidentally invite 3rd parties that were not cleared.
This article goes further in displaying that participants are not adhering to data retention standards, either, to no surprise.
It's a fascinating article, and really is a revealing example of how profoundly inept this regime truly is.
Well obviously nobody should be using personal devices for this. Thats not an issue with Signal.
Its the same issue as Trump using his personal cell phone's torch to illuminate a top secret document at a dark-lit party in Florida while he was showing off his Intel to a foreign diplomat (lots of things wrong with this, but note that pointing the torch at the document necessarily means pointing the camera at the document )