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Jaxkr on May 8, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: How Obama’s BlackBerry got secured (2013)

And now we have our top defense officials using a fork of Signal which sends copies of messages to a third party.

https://www.404media.co/mike-waltz-accidentally-reveals-obsc... http://archive.today/LyWDy

chme on May 8, 2025 | [–]

Not only that, but the software also contained login information to the AWS backend archive servers:

https://www.techspot.com/news/107792-hacker-breaches-telemes...

janice1999 on May 8, 2025 | [–]

... the third party being run by a foreign 'former' spy whose country was being discussed in those messages.

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