A photograph of Trump administration official Mike Waltz’s phone shows him using an unofficial version of Signal designed to archive messages during a cabinet meeting.
Mike Waltz, who was until Thursday U.S. National Security Advisor, has inadvertently revealed he is using an obscure and unofficial version of Signal that is designed to archive messages, raising questions about what classification of information officials are discussing on the app and how that data is being secured, 404 Media has found.
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.
The “TM SGNL PIN” message is displayed on an unofficial — and less secure — version of Signal created by a company called TeleMessage, which makes clones of popular messaging apps, but enables the ability to archive messages
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.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TeleMessage
Let that sink in
Hello foreign intelligence agencies, would you like an easy way to intercept and read classified communications? Maybe just buy it off Mossad? JFC what is this clown show. Why are our intelligence officials even using off the shelf, or even modified, software solutions for communications? Shouldn’t we have some secure messaging app and protocols developed here?
Am I missing something here or is it really this dumb?
They are going out of their way to use an Israeli platform to discuss top secret government business on. Seems pretty obvious why. They are taking instructions from
IsraelRussia!I mean it’s probably both but I would bet my life that Trump is actually a Russian agent. You don’t grab a whole pile of classified documents and bring them to your home in a location secured worse than the door to a bedroom and not proceed to give those away.
Now, direct involvement and level of control - idk but he must be “on their payroll” so to speak.
Who knows they’re a whole den of corruption, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn some of Trump’s staff are selling state secrets.
Most of that shit went to Saudi Arabia for the 2 billion paid to Jared Kushner’s company years ago.
Isn’t Israel known for its tech firms making phone security bypass tech (I.E. NSO Group and their Pegasus SW?)
I don’t understand, signal is open source, why would they need to purchase an unofficial fork from a foreign company? Isn’t that an huge security issue?
And what’s the point of using end to end encryption if the app has been hacked to send messages to a remote server anyway
Signal is lacking a certain feature “Archiving messages” . This company used Signal’s open source code to add this feature and offer the whole thing as a “Signal plus” product.
Assuming best intentions, Waltz wanted Signal but also wanted the ability to archive messages so he opted for the software provided by this company instead of the original.
Petah Tikva.
Sounds like a Klingon insult.
It translates to “you have Play-Doh on your forehead”.
well that is how you become Israel’s and Russia’s bitch and sell your own country so they don’t reveal the dirt that they found about you
Preloaded with Pegasus at your disposal lmao
Holy mother of fuck
How did this photo even happen? They don’t use privacy covers? Who’s running this operation??
“We are currently clean on OPSEC.”
“Only the best people.”
These fucking clowns. I’ve lived through an awful lot of Gov’t by the Stupid…
(Remember when we thought Bush the Younger was the dumbest president ever…??)
But this freak show simply outdoes anything that came before. 🙄 🤡 🖕
I long for the Bush era and that’s fucking tragic.
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Golfs better than Trump too
What a time to be alive
It was not. 2000+ has pretty much sucked.
Funny enough, 2000 is when I could first legally buy booze too. Still didn’t help.
Let your local magats know how you feel about being subjected to this shit show daily. Really let them know how you feel.
The article makes me wonder if Waltz is intentionally countering the counter-revolution.
Either that, or he’s just stupid as fuck.
Maybe both.
lol this guy can assemble into a whole war thunder forum on his own
“send top secret government chats to a server in Israel?”
YES / LATER
Yo this is a real interesting read but the title is straight clickbait that makes it seem like the gov’t is externally archiving signal messages for citizens.
I read it as intented, since most headlines in the last month have been about their own usage of Signal.
I mean, aren’t they?
It’s TeleMessage, not Signal, but w/e
No i mean, are they not just storing encrypted messages until they have capability to decrypt?
Yes, the US government has a longstanding ‘grab everything’ order in place.
It’s just a matter of whether they want to put the resources towards deciphering something.
Probably backdoored
Seems more like they left the front door wide open.
You’re thinking of Grind’r.
I’m just shocked he didn’t have a post-it note with his code written in blue pen in the other hand…
Cunts voted for this. It’s not like we didn’t know they’re this incompetent and dangerous.
Hostile intelligence agencies can have a little espionage, as a treat.
This is a link to the modified app instruction.
https://www.telemessage.com/signal-archiver-android-installation-upgrade/
Gotta save that juicy blackmail
Too stupid even for Trump to keep onboard.
Wish I could read the whole article
I’m so grateful for archive.is and every project like it
Thanks
