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Yesterday, I published an analysis of what I could publicly find about TM SGNL, the obscure and unofficial Signal app used by Mike Waltz, and presumably also by Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, and other fascists in Trump’s government. Afterwards, someone privately sent me the URL
https://www.telemessage.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/Signal.zip.
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Paywall bypass for the article’s link on the hackers that exfiltrated message contents: https://archive.is/8kaQQ
So that whole thing with the Signal group chat was done on some wacky fork on top of that??? Lmao
Why not just use the official signal app, if you’re going to use it at all?
Apparently archives.
I guess its a legal requirement for government and the financial sector.
I archive my signal chats. But, I guess, they need an automatic way to do that. They should ask their precious Grok or whatever tf it’s called.
Probably they need a way to archive it where the user can’t enable or disable archiving
Yeah, that would make sense. But this is not the right use case for Signal at all. In fact (and I know I’m preaching to the choir), it defeats Signal’s use case in many ways. I don’t even know what they’re trying to accomplish with this.
The original git repo has a .il tld. Hmmm… I’m just gonna throw it out there, but an app created by foreign nationals might not be a good choice for top secret communication.
If its open source and audited, it doesn’t matter.
Sure, but this is a very obscure project. It has few eyes holding it accountable.
The government is buying it. And cryptocurrency companies. That’s a lot of money and a lot of eyes.
It is if the person is a foreign asset.
It is if the official is being payed to lure fellow officials into making big security mistakes. Anyone who knows a sociopath knows they would sell their mom for a candy bar.
Whaaaat
From the article, direct links to the code:
Can someone explain why this is remarkable… or not.
The source code seems to have some hardcoded credentials in there, essentially making this a back door. The git repo also seems to have Israeli surveillance roots to it, which is troubling for any sort of top secret data.
If you read the blog post one day older than this one from before he got the code, he speaks more about the Israeli ties. The CEO for TeleMessage is former IDF.
I haven’t spent a lot of time looking into TeleMessage, but what I did find at a quick glance is that several of the executives on the teams page list Israeli universities in their bios, and the CEO, Guy Levit, says that, “From 1996 until 1999, Guy served as the head of the planning and development of one of the IDF’s Intelligence elite technical units.”
You’ve got to be more clear about serving in the IDF. Luckily your quote gives more detail, but literally every Israeli citizen has to serve in the IDF, so former service in the IDF doesn’t mean much more than just saying they’re Israeli.
A short while back, there was an article about a Bibi leak where he was bragging they know the US admin plans and controlled them.
Thank you for making this make sense :)
Is there a secondary source that this is actually the app being used?
This whole thing seems very questionable
Paywalled.
Thanks
