It’s possible Mike Waltz didn’t think the archiving capability was reliable enough, so he added a journalist to the group chat.
That’s like in the old days when you needed to get married and grabbed a random nearby person to be the witness.
Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals App Govt Uses to Archive Signal Messages
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#62What is the point of using Signal if you are going to let a (foreign) company intercept your communications? I guess they wanted the UX of a commercial product instead of whatever clunky app that's approved for government. Does anyone know what the alternative was?
Traditionally you would use the plain old telephone system to communicate non-classified information. All of the major telcos services (voice and text) are no longer considered secure per CISA. CISA also recommended to instead use e2e encrypted services (specifically calling out Signal).
https://investigations.cooley.com/2025/01/15/federal-law-enf...
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#63Would love to know what the message from JD means: "I have confirmation from my counterpart it's turned off."
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#64“On Thursday Reuters published a photograph of Waltz checking his mobile phone during a cabinet meeting held by Donald Trump. The screen appears to show messages from various top level government officials, including JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, and Marco Rubio.” Head of NatSec, ladies and gentlemen. Once the domain of Kissinger, Brzezinski, Powell and Rice. Now with the opsec of a brain-damaged cocaine dealer.
Pin is 1234.
"That's amazing! I've got the same combination on my luggage!"
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#65At least this takes care of the open records issues, no?
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Crikey that's terrifying. Not even a US company either.
TeleMessage is an Israeli software company based in Petah Tikva, Israel. Founded in 1999 by Guy Levit and Gil Shapira, it provides secure enterprise messaging, mobile communications archiving and high-volume text messaging services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleMessage
Even though Israel is our "Ally" -- we really shouldn't trust a foreign company with our sensitive messaging.
If you're in the government, you should treat Hegseth and anyone who uses Signal and TMSIGNL as compromised.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
TeleMessage is an Israeli software company based in Petah Tikva, Israel. Founded in 1999 by Guy Levit and Gil Shapira, it provides secure enterprise messaging, mobile communications archiving and high-volume text messaging services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleMessage
Even though Israel is our "Ally" -- we really shouldn't trust a foreign company with our sensitive messaging. If you're in the government, you should treat Hegseth and anyone who uses Signal and TMSIGNL as compromised.
It's not like Israel would ever spy on the US right?
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
TeleMessage is an Israeli software company based in Petah Tikva, Israel. Founded in 1999 by Guy Levit and Gil Shapira, it provides secure enterprise messaging, mobile communications archiving and high-volume text messaging services. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleMessage
Even though Israel is our "Ally" -- we really shouldn't trust a foreign company with our sensitive messaging. If you're in the government, you should treat Hegseth and anyone who uses Signal and TMSIGNL as compromised.
Please tell that to European governments too. The Netherlands military police was using Whatsapp (e.g., https://www.defensie.nl/actueel/nieuws/2022/06/15/maatregele...). Only Germany has the BwMessenger (Matrix) as far as I know. It makes me wonder what the other militaries are using.
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#69“On Thursday Reuters published a photograph of Waltz checking his mobile phone during a cabinet meeting held by Donald Trump. The screen appears to show messages from various top level government officials, including JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, and Marco Rubio.” Head of NatSec, ladies and gentlemen. Once the domain of Kissinger, Brzezinski, Powell and Rice. Now with the opsec of a brain-damaged cocaine dealer.
They are shuffling him off to be UN ambassador per recent reporting. Better late than never, I suppose.
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#70It’s possible Mike Waltz didn’t think the archiving capability was reliable enough, so he added a journalist to the group chat.
That’s like in the old days when you needed to get married and grabbed a random nearby person to be the witness.
I doubt that’s happened more than twice in the history of marriage