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.”
I don’t have any faith that these things will actually matter. Nobody’s going to do anything about it.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
The corruption is the whole point
'Murica is broken. It always was. It’s just now public
“then he accidentally posted them online under his war thunder account” would be a continuation that surprises none of us
Keeping dirt on the other folks in the chat room.
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
yep - and if you all want to see the serious meat and potatoes of what we know about Israeli spyware, check out TheCitizenLab at the University of Toronto’s recent write up exposing Israeli spyware campaigns.
Send the logs to the boss.
What’s the problem?
Those 2 regimes are practically one.The nation of origin is completely meaningless when it comes to software distributed over the internet.
You know software is made by people, right?
Yeah it’s not so much the infrastructure but the political alignment that raises an eyebrow here
