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☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 6 days ago

Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages

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Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages

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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.
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    Is there evidence that this is actually a US government fork of Signal for archiving messages? Maybe they just downloaded some other Signal fork from somewhere else.

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      Looks like it’s made by a third party: https://www.telemessage.com/tag/tm-sgnl-android-installation-upgrade-guide/

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        Amazing. Is it a trojan?

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