A photo taken this week showed Mike Waltz using an app that looks like—but is not—Signal to communicate with top officials. "I don't even know where to start with this," says one expert.
  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org
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    Waltz told Fox News in late March “we’ve got the best technical minds looking at how this happened.”

    That one always cracks me up 🤣

    About that other app:

    TeleMessage was founded in Israel in 1999 by former Israel Defense Forces technologists and run out of the country until it was acquired last year by the US-based digital communications archiving company Smarsh. The service creates duplicates of communication apps that are outfitted with a “mobile archiver” tool to record and store messages sent through the app.

    “Capture, archive and monitor mobile communication: SMS, MMS, Voice Calls, WhatsApp, WeChat, Telegram & Signal,” TeleMessage says on its website. For Signal it adds, “Record and capture Signal calls, texts, multimedia and files on corporate-issued and employee BYOD phones.”

    And just to be clear, this means that all these communications are stored on company servers.

  • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    “I have no doubt the leadership of the US national security apparatus ran this software through a full information-assurance process to ensure there was no information leakage to foreign nations,” says Johns Hopkins cryptographer Matt Green. “Because if they didn’t, we are screwed.”

    Really Matt? No doubt at all? The only reason they’d care about sensitive info leak is because it’s lost sales revenue.