Mike Waltz Has Somehow Gotten Even Worse at Using Signal

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  1. During a White House cabinet meeting on Wednesday, then, Waltz was apparently using an Israeli-made app called TeleMessage Signal to message with people who appear to be top US officials, including JD Vance, Marco Rubio and Tulsi Gabbard.

    “I don’t even know where to start with this,” says Jake Williams, a former NSA hacker and vice president of research and development at Hunter Strategy. “It’s mind blowing that the federal government is using Israeli tech to route extremely sensitive data for archival purposes. You just know that someone is grabbing a copy of that data. Even if TeleMessage isn’t willingly giving it up, they have just become one of the biggest nation state targets out there.”

    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](https://www.telemessage.com/smarsh-completes-acquisition-of-telemessage-extends-communications-compliance-leadership/) 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.

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  2. His chat partners will be happy to hear that he has an archive of all their self deleting messages they wanted nobody to see.

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