It is an advertisement that signal would have gone well. The encrypted messaging is at the heart of a large security scandal in the United States. Not only Pete Hegseth, the Defense Secretary, as well as twenty leading personalities from the Trump administration, exchanged sensitive information there or for certain classifieds about military strikes in Yemen. But they made a journalist in their group in their group. Not just any, Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor -in -chief of the prestigious American monthly The Atlantic. A publication that is very critical of Maga politics (Make America Great Again). The Goldberg article Relating this blunder, published Monday March 24, will remain in history. Signal with it, alas for her.
Messaging would certainly prefer to remain under radars. This scandal gives the impression that his shield is porous while his security protocol has not been compromised. If signal effectively protects conversations from the general public, it has never claimed to have the capacity to protect secrets of states. Each country has its own specialized systems for this.
Cyber risks for organization
Its popularity with eminent policies and personalities increases the cyber risks for the organization. A month ago, Google alerted On this subject: “The popularity of signal among the common targets of surveillance and espionage activities – such as military staff, politicians, journalists, activists and other risky communities – positioned the secure messaging application as a high value target for adversaries who seek to intercept sensitive information that could meet a range of different intelligence requirements.” The case involving The Atlantic should only intensify the pressure.
Signal and private general public messaging are currently caught up in vice. When they are not badly used by certain governments, others like France hope to break their precious numbers in the name of the fight against various plagues of pedopornography with drug trafficking. Enough to create gaping flaws for ordinary users as for leading political and military figures who appreciate its services. An uncomfortable situation partly linked to a lack of technical knowledge but perhaps also to a form of defeatism in the face of the variety of spy software allowing to spy on a phone. No later than Sunday, the French Minister of Justice Gérald Darmanin said to the JDD : “Today, everyone uses applications as a signal, Whatsapp, Telegram […] Let’s be lucid: foreign states or private pharmacies like Pegasus or NSO listen to us in total violation of laws and regulations. “Revealing.
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