AXIOS March 25, 2025
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.
The big picture: 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...
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