cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/29486510
Jason Paladino
May 02, 2025“During Wednesday’s meeting for Trump’s cabinet, Mike Waltz checked the app on his phone, using what appeared to be Signal. As news broke that Waltz had lost his job as National Security Advisor, images from the cabinet meeting circulated widely online on Thursday. Upon closer inspection of the photos, it turned out that Waltz was not using the traditional Signal app. He appeared to be using an archiving app made by Israeli firm TeleMessage, which sells companion apps meant to enable archiving messages.”
It’s a good thing Israel would never want to develop software that spies, and that even if it did it would certainly never spy on America with it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
https://www.newsweek.com/israel-flagged-top-spy-threat-us-new-snowdennsa-document-262991
https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20211103-us-blacklists-israeli-firm-behind-pegasus-spyware
…and so on