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Title: US National Security Official Caught Using 'Less-Secure Signal App
Knockoff'

Link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/03/0427...

Remember when U.S. National Security Adviser Mike Waltz mistakenly included a
journalist in an encrypted chatroom to discuss looming U.S. military action
against Yemen's Houthis? A recent photo of a high-level cabinet meeting
caught Waltz using a "less-secure Signal app knockoff," reports the Guardian:
The chat app Waltz was using appears to be a modified version of Signal
called TM SGNL, made by a company that copies messaging apps but adds an
ability to retain messages and archive them. The White House officials may be
using the modified Signal in order to comply with the legal requirement that
presidential records be preserved... That function suggests the end-to-end
encryption that makes Signal trusted for sharing private communications is
possibly "not maintained, because the messages can be later retrieved after
being stored somewhere else", according to 404 Media. Thursday the national
security adviser was removed from his position, the article points out. He
was instead named America's ambassador to the United Nations.

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