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.”
Israeli security industry: builds virtual CPUs out of memory overflows in image libraries to crack open iPhones, can McGyver data across air gaps by writing to RAM in a pattern that generates radio frequencies
also Israeli security industry: sells an app that archives Signal messages by emailing them in plain text
I mean it did what it said it would do