Special devices and rooms, not signal. How to communicate properly diplomats
2. Apr 2025 at 13:44
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BRATISLAVA. The American Signalgate affair, in which the editor -in -chief of The Atlantic Jeffrey Goldberg inadvertently learned the detailed military plans of the US Navy attack on the terrorist group of Húsia was a shocking example of how sensitive information should not be communicated.
High -ranking politicians headed by Vice President of JD Vance, Defense Minister Peta Hegseth and the head of the secret services of Tulsi Gabbard, they sent not only military plans through the Signal application, but also exchanged contemptuous views on Europe or doubts about whether it was Donald Trump decided right when the attack ordered.
In the chat group, journalist Jeffrey Goldberg was mistakenly, who decided not to disclose sensitive information from respect to national security. He did this only after the politicians lied to the conversation and began to attack him.
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How do politicians or diplomats communicate about such information by default?
« Sending any classified information via Signal is not only absolutely irresponsible, but it is primarily a violation of the law. NATO Special facilities available to the Slovak Republic, « says former Slovak Defense Minister Jaroslav Naď.
According to NATO, Slovakia, as a Member State, has several cities throughout the country where there are special facilities, through which the Minister of Defense can also communicate about classified information.
In the article you can read:
- How do politicians and diplomats communicate at NATO and EU,
- Under what circumstances are they willing to use a signal and when not,
- Whether the signal is safe for an ordinary user,
- As in the past, similar leaks of information took place.
Special devices, special rooms
Already in the days when the Signalgate affair rolled over, American journalists have mentioned the SCIF, which means Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (a device for sensitive information). In America, these are proven rooms in which you can have interviews about classified information.
Such a room can be set up in a white house or individual ministries but in case US President For example, it can also take the form of a portable container that is ensured to protect sensitive information, as in 2020, the server wrote The War Zone that also published a photograph of the then president Baracka Obama in such a room.
About special rooms also talks about Tomáš Valášek. The former Slovak Ambassador to NATO, today Member Progressive Slovakia.
« It is done on a completely special technique. It was a special computers in the room that was earmarked for it. The computers did not even have classic outputs such as USB ports or CD burns to prevent information from there, » he says.
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