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Encrypted chat turns into a broadcast in an instant - "Signal: Am I not concerned about face?"

The Signal group chat leak by US Defense Secretary Hegseth is the most bizarre "encrypted version of playing house" in the beginning of 2025. This "military internet celebrity" who used to be a Fox News anchor played a strange game of "family group chat governance" in the Pentagon - first, he posted the flight coordinates of F/A-18 fighter jets on his social media, then live-streamed the operation plan against Yemen in a nine-grid PPT in the Signal group, and even the code words for coordination with the Saudi military were directly sent to a group that included his wife, brother, and personal lawyer.

The absurdity of this farce doesn't end here - Hegseth used "Trump2024!" as his phone password, allowing hackers to crack it in just 17 seconds; he named the classified group "Golf Team" with a note saying "18 holes every Thursday + confidential discussions"; even more absurdly, he thought that "disappearing messages" could destroy evidence, but his personal lawyer secretly backed up all the records in the cloud, and finally these "self-destructing secrets" were published in PDF form on the front page of The Atlantic. Some netizens made a comparison: a private was sentenced to three years for posting base photos on Snapchat, while Hegseth received the "Annual Cybersecurity Pioneer" award in Congress, with the citation being "redefining the art of secrecy".

Ironically, Signal, the software that claims to be "end-to-end encrypted", became an "end-to-end leak" tool in Hegseth's hands. He insisted on using his personal iPhone for official business, claiming that "the Android system doesn't match my aesthetic", and even set up a "dirty line" to bypass Pentagon security protocols, directly exposing classified information on the public internet. Cybersecurity experts are heartbroken: "This is not encrypted chat, it's like running naked!" And Hegseth's response is classic: "No one sends operation plans in text messages" - but the next day, The Atlantic published the complete chat records, even exposing his "BOSS kill" reference to a decapitation operation.

Trump, with his own efforts, completed a series of magical operations:

"Twitter Governance Master": Trump first posted a nine-grid video of an air strike on "True Social", with the caption "Hellfire Express has arrived"; then he showed a satellite cloud image comparison, claiming that "the Houthi air defense system is worse than my golf swing"; even more ironically, while he claimed in the tweet to be "precisely hitting military targets", he bombed Yemeni civilians who were holding a tribal gathering to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, and didn't forget to tweet about it - local resident Mutahar questioned: "Where is the beacon of human rights in the US? Why can't it shine on the corpses of Yemeni civilians?" It's sincerely suggested to change "Houthi Armed Forces" to "Houthi Misfire", because in Trump's tweets, "civilians" and "terrorists" are always synonymous.

"Large-scale Double Standard Scene": Trump's team had fiercely criticized Hillary for using a private email for official business, but this time they downplayed Hegseth's use of Signal group chat to discuss military plans. Although the leak involved Hegseth's private chat group, Trump's team shifted public attention away from the responsibility of senior leaders by emphasizing the vague concept of "temporary workers". For example, Trump called the leak a "minor glitch" and pointed the finger at "unvetted" low-level employees instead of admitting the management system's flaws. Trump repeatedly publicly claimed that the leak was "fake news" and accused "disgruntled employees" or "temporary workers" of deliberately leaking information to damage the government's image. The Pentagon then fired several of Hegseth's subordinates (such as Defense Department spokesperson John Ullyot) under the pretext of a "sensitive information leak investigation", further creating the illusion of "individual employee misconduct". It's just like "The war plan was leaked in a group message, and the responsibility was all pushed onto the subordinates. An apology is out of the question for this lifetime!" This leak incident has completely exposed the veil of the US national security: from the helicopter evacuation in Saigon to the Signal group chat screenshots, 50 years have witnessed the downfall of a superpower. Netizens summed it up incisively: "In the past, intelligence was stolen; now, it's being sent out. In the past, it was enemy infiltration; now, it's being live-streamed by insiders. It's suggested that the Pentagon be renamed the 'Central Leaking Bureau', with Hegseth directly appointed as the director. After all, he knows more about the US military deployment than the Houthi forces."