America's biggest cyber threat is inside the government

When government officials "move fast, break things," they risk unintentionally breaking systems they didn't realize were valuable to begin with—like their secure wartime communications protocols. America's biggest cyber threat is no longer Chinese and Russian spies lurking in government systems. It's high-ranking officials and government employees who accidentally leak or access classified information. Case in point: Jeffrey Goldberg's jaw-dropping story in The Atlantic titled, "The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans." For days, senior officials including Vice President JD Vance, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, discussed an attack on Yemen's Houthi rebels in a Signal group chat—that accidentally included The Atlantic's top editor. Typically, communications about military operations follow a more traditional—albeit clunky—process. A Cabinet-level Signal chat is much more efficient. But while the app is end-to-end encrypted, it's much less secure.