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On the Day He Was Fired as National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz Used an Israeli App to Archive Signal Messages

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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."

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1w ago

On the Day He Was Fired as National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz Used an Israeli App to Archive Signal Messages

www.dropsitenews.com /p/mikewaltz-tech-israel-nationalsecurity-signal

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On the Day He Was Fired as National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz Used an Israeli App to Archive Signal Messages

www.dropsitenews.com /p/mikewaltz-tech-israel-nationalsecurity-signal

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"then he accidentally posted them online under his war thunder account" would be a continuation that surprises none of us

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.

What's the problem?
Those 2 regimes are practically one.

Send the logs to the boss.

I don't have any faith that these things will actually matter. Nobody's going to do anything about it.
- He isn't even gone from the government, Trump is moving him to be ambassador to the U.N.
  And this isn't happening because of what he did, but because he got caught. He put on display how none of Trump's hires have any qualifications, and that he is a complete idiot with his denial story. He was then proven even dumber when his claims of no classified material were again proven to be wrong by the reporter publishing proof.
  
  He isn’t even gone from the government, Trump is moving him to be ambassador to the U.N.
  The old tried-and-true 'move the priest to a new parish' strategy.
  
  This is partly why they didn’t remove him entirely (or kill him outright) from gov’t work. They want a close eye on their cronies who have or could have receipts for blackmail purposes (both directions here).

Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
- Nothing will improve merely with that, only change. It will just lead to horrible oppression first and bloody conflict next after people get enough of that. And after the conflict money just changes owners and new rich will start accumulating wealth at expense of everyone else and cycle begins anew.
  While times of change are good for.. well, changing things there has to be some plan for the change to possibly be actually positive. Otherwise those who are good at exploiting chaos and instability for their own gain will just have free reign.
  
  Nah make them afriad, if they don't willingly step back and begin to redistribute their wealth it needs to be forcefully done by the new state
  
  there has to be some plan for the change
  Yes, but step 1 of that plan generally involves getting the rich to allow the change

The corruption is the whole point
'Murica is broken. It always was. It's just now public

Keeping dirt on the other folks in the chat room.

The nation of origin is completely meaningless when it comes to software distributed over the internet.
- You know software is made by people, right?
- As opposed to software distributed by CD tied to an African swallow?
  Jokes aside. Backing up data to a software owned by a Chinese, American or Swiss company would have different implications. Different laws apply on how the government can access and use that data.
- Yeah it’s not so much the infrastructure but the political alignment that raises an eyebrow here

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