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.”

  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space
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    2 days ago

    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

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    2 days ago

    Lmao.

    “Archive”.

    Yep. They’re archived alright. Places you don’t even know, bud.

    • 1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      Places you don’t even know, bud.

      It is physically impossible for him to care less as long as the checks keep rolling in

    • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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      they are losing their minds. granted not enough energy is being put toward doing anything. but that’s what libs do. they hand wring and ask politely because that’s what you do in a framework of rules and norms. we need to convert some libs to that their strategy doesn’t work into actual resistance