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		jandrewrogers on Jan 23, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 82nd Airborne unit told to use Signal or Wickr on ... This has been rolling out for a couple years across parts of the US government. The primary objective, as I understand it, is to eliminate the pervasive use of WhatsApp and Gmail for unclassified communication for security reasons.

Bahamut on Jan 23, 2020 [–]

The ironic part is the military lives on regular text messaging as it is.

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