Recent photographs show that White House officials are now communicating through a less secure variant of the Signal messaging app, called TM SGNL. This app, reportedly developed by TeleMessage, retains messages for archiving purposes, conflicting with Signal's promise of end-to-end encryption. The use of this modified app follows a national security breach involving Mike Waltz, the ousted national security adviser, who previously included a journalist in sensitive group chats. The new app raises concerns regarding communication security among high-level officials while ensuring compliance with requirements to preserve presidential records.
In the new photographs, Waltz's screen shows messages between him and contacts who appear to be JD Vance, the vice-president; Marco Rubio, the secretary of state, who has now replaced Waltz as acting national security adviser.
The chat app Waltz was using appears to be a modified version of Signal called TM SGNL, made by a company that copies messaging apps but adds an ability to retain messages and archive them.
The officials may be using the modified Signal in order to comply with the legal requirement that presidential records be preserved.
That function suggests the end-to-end encryption that makes Signal trusted for sharing private communications is possibly not maintained, because the messages can be later retrieved after being stored somewhere else.
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