It’s really pretty amazing. His phone number was easily available Hegseth’s Personal Phone Use Created Vulnerabilities, Analysts Say
From the other Signal thread... All of this stinks. How is this much different than the US Navy ship that had an unapproved Starlink setup on board? While it looks like that install was used for checking sports scores and streaming movies, this line was used to access Signal, and we've seen what a mess that has created. A Command Senior Chief was court martialed and had her rank reduced because of the unapproved internet link. What happens to Hegseth because of his unapproved internet link?
"Hello, Pete? This is Eric. Dad said he wants to bomb Ukraine. You know, really give 'em the business. Yes, right away. I'll have Lara or Jared text you with the exact targets in a few minutes. Do I want to go out for drinks later? Sure. Ya, I can bring the funnel."
So much bad stuff has happened this serious story was 3 pages deep, regardless, National Security Advisor who added the journalist to the illegal text group was fired into the UN Ambassador's role. Rubio to take up the role of National Texter in Chief. Live updates: The latest on Trump’s presidency as he taps Waltz for UN and Rubio as interim national security adviser | CNN Politics • New role for Waltz: President Donald Trump announced today that he’s nominating Mike Waltz to serve as UN ambassador, shifting from his role as national security adviser. Marco Rubio will now serve as secretary of state and interim national security adviser. Waltz had been on shaky ground since he added a journalist to a group chat on military strikes.
What in the hell is wrong with these people? They didn’t learn a damn thing. Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages
And all the gang are on the list of those still using For the record..it is. NOT approved for transmission of top secret data. Hack the phone read the messages unless being deleted. Delete the message, break the records retention law..doh...
so they were using the signal app and then a second, unsecured app to archive the conversations the second app has been hacked..that would give the hacker access to all of the archived messages The US Government's Signal Situation Just Got Worse There are many reasons why the administration's "Signal strategy" is problematic, but the issues didn't end there. On Thursday, Reuters posted a photograph of Mike Waltz during a cabinet meeting at the White House. While there are plenty of important people in the photograph to pay attention to, 404 Media zeroed in on Waltz—specifically, his iPhone. The outlet spotted that Waltz had what appeared to be a thread opened with officials like Tulsi Gabbard (Director of National Intelligence), Marco Rubio (Secretary of State), and JD Vance (Vice President), with the PIN verification message that Signal will routinely send to users to keep their credentials fresh in their minds. However, 404 Media spotted that this wasn't Signal's usual PIN verification pop-up: The message says "TM SGNL PIN," which is the PIN verification screen for TeleMessage, a Signal "clone" that advertises itself as a way to archive your Signal messages. While the app claims it does not break Signal's secure messaging system to archive messages, 404 Media reports that the service as advertised has many security vulnerabilities. It didn't take long for those vulnerabilities to manifest in disaster, either. On Sunday, 404 Media reported a hacker broke into TeleMessage's networks and stole customer data. While the hacker didn't take everything, they did obtain some DMs and group chats, in addition to data of modified versions of other chat apps, like WhatsApp, Telegram, and WeChat, all in about 15 to 20 minutes of hacking. 404 Media says the hacker did not access Waltz' chats or the conversations of any cabinet members, but they did access government officials' names and contact information, credentials to log into TeleMessage's backend panel (the tool that lets TeleMessage admins manage the service), as well as information that points to which agencies might use TeleMessage. Some of the stolen messages appeared to show a discussion about an ongoing effort to whip up votes in support of a cryptocurrency bill. One text read, "Just spoke to a D staffer on the senate side - 2 cosponsors (Alsobrooks and gillibrand) did not sign the opposition letter so they think the bill still has a good chance of passage the senate with 5 more Ds supporting it.” The hack didn't expose classified information, but it did reveal political conversations that the senders likely never intended to be printed in the press.
Sounds like they were actually trying to abide by the Presidential Records Act. First for everything.
It's so difficult to keep up with what an absolute clown show this administration is. Hegseth verbally and unilaterally cancelled aid to Ukraine causing confusion and millions in wasted costs.
