It will get lost in the torrent, but hard to overstate how scandalous this is. The national security advisor was communicating via a jerry-rigged version of an encrypted app that *functionally removed the encryption*, meaning an Israeli company could read all his texts. Throw in the towel, folks.
Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs. My findings are based on TM SGNL's source code, and they are corroborated by hacked data
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Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs
Despite their misleading marketing, TeleMessage, the company that makes a modified version of Signal used by senior Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs from its customers.
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May 6, 2025 21:52It's funny because Israeli intelligence obviously just told these idiots to use it and they did.
This company has got to be an intelligence operation, right?
Because “here’s an app to archive your secret communications” is so ridiculously suspect
"Trump is a poor person's idea of a rich man, a weak person's idea of a strong man, and a stupid person's idea of a smart man.”
Can we please stop talking about Hegseth et al ‘using Signal’ now?
This is *not* Signal, and it’s way worse.
And the American people tacitly *accept* this.
"an Israeli company could read all his texts"
bsky.app/profile/zach...It will get lost in the torrent, but hard to overstate how scandalous this is. The national security advisor was communicating via a jerry-rigged version of an encrypted app that *functionally removed the encryption*, meaning an Israeli company could read all his texts. Throw in the towel, folks.
Yes, but the Israelis would never do that, because we're pals.
warfighters bruh
using the butHerEmails response scale, Hegseth should already be in Leavenworth
It’s like an episode of Get Smart!
Just make sure you do not forget that the reason for this shambolic and treasonous departure from using perfectly well operating safe communication means is…..the president’s explicit orders to leave no records, like any mob boss would want to when fearing those “discussions” might be a problem.
Israel made those pagers, why not spy on their American 'friends'? 🤷
They don't care. They have no intention of following any rules for record retention, and no idea of how anything can be hacked or what the consequences would be if anything was hacked. They're the dumbest, most corrupt, venal, soulless motherfuckers around, and they're in charge. Kakistocracy.
Amazing that the Biden administration would pay $2.1 mil for this crap without doing a security edit of it, right? Yet this is precisely what they did.
Waltz & Hegseth: APPROVED The NSA won't like it but they're nerds not warfighters
Also, fire the NSA chief
They heard “government communications need to be archived” and walked right into a trap. 🙈
Every communication between cabinet members need to be using approved secure methods that can be stored in the archives. They are using other programs so the public cannot know what they are really doing. I bet the Soviets and Chinese do. IDIOTS!
This deserves oversight review of it as much as Hillary Clinton server did because the reality is hackers didn’t know about her server, and so her information was far more secure than if it had been on a government site. These willy-nilly apps on their iPhones are known throughout the world.
That security is just too complex. Plain text is so much easier.
It's not a scandal to them if it's Israel
They should stop trying to do "secret" and just do all their business, all their "secret" meetings and messaging et al live on C-SPAN ;)
This is so much worse than just using signal 😂😭
Somehow I don’t think the US DOJ cares if Israel can read our texts. They seem to be rather in lock step.
Israel is America. We need to realise this
It’s like Odigo for DT’s cabinet.
Telemessage was bought by an American firm in 2024. But on Bluesky, it's important to mention that it was founded by Israelis because that makes it per se sinister.
Nothing matters
Who needs Pegasus when you've got certified idiots running the US Govt...
This also seems…problematic?
It almost feels like he thought to himself after Signalgate #1; “that was pretty bad, but how can I fuck this up EVEN WORSE next time?”
I mean at this point even Giuliani probably could improve things as “cybersecurity czar”.
The DNI and CIA Director were also involved in these conversations and yet… just insanity
So Telemessage is the "cone of silence" of secure social apps.
And the VP. And the DNI. And the SecDef. And on and on.
Interesting!
Does this mean there's a chance we can actually recover some of these chat logs in the future?
And they don't even care..!!
Great. Subpoena them.
Mossad be eating good. Nom nom nom.
A little while ago, I stopped being amazed at how this scandal and stupidity keeps getting worse, but I am amazed yet again.
Ffs!
TicTok, TicTok
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Grrrrr
How MANY years of top-secret intel, contacts and operations have been compromised by the Trump Administration? The damage they’re doing today will reverberate for eternity.
BahahahahwhahahwhHahHahahahan
It's not a scandal to them if it's Israel
