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As messages still come about the President Donald Trump The administration of the use of the signal, the company issued a statement on Tuesday to clean the air and state that its software is a “gold standard for private and safe communication”.
On Monday, the Atlantic editor -in -chief revealed that he was unintentionally included in the chain of sending news Trump, who discussed plans for the upcoming strike on Houthis in Yemen.
The report was criticized hard, and news, such as the NPR, states that “vulnerability” has been identified in the Messenger application, suggesting that Russian professional hacker groups use encrypted conversations devices.
In response to the NPRS Signal report, he stated that the claim that there were “vulnerability” in the signal is not accurate.
“The memorandum used the term“ vulnerability ”in relation to the signal – but it had nothing to do with the basic signal technology. It was a warning of phishing fraud focused on signal users, “the statement read.” Phishing is not new and it's not a mistake in our encryption or in any basic signal technology. Phishing attacks are a constant threat to popular applications and websites.
“To help protect people from the fall of the victims of sophisticated phishing attacks, the signal introduced new user flows and the application warnings,” the statement continued. “This work has been completed for some time and is not related to any current events.
“The signal is open source, so our code is regularly examined in addition to regular formal audits,” the signal added. “We are constantly watching security@signal.org for all new messages and we are discussing them with speed and working on protecting people who rely on external threats such as phishing with warnings and warranty. Therefore, the signal remains a gold standard for private and safe communication.”
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US President Donald Trump, during a press conference in Roosevelt Roosevelt at the White House 21. January 2025 in Washington in Washington, Washington, Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik / Getty Images / Getty Images)
The signal is Encrypted Application application for sending messages This works similarly to text messages or telephony, but with other security measures that help ensure that communication is private to those included in correspondence.
On Tuesday Trump revealed The fact that a National Security Advisor Mike Waltz included the Atlantic editor -in -chief in a signal group chat with higher Trump officials who discussed the plans of the upcoming strike on Houth Rebel in Yemen.
“He was one of Michael's people on the phone. Employees had their number there, ” Trump said nbc In a telephone conversation, when he asked how Jeffrey Goldberg, the editor -in -chief of the Atlantic was added to the high -ranking chat.
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Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Fla. (Photo: Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, INC through Getty Images)
The President added that Goldberg's inclusion in a group chat had no impact on the strike in Yemen.
Goldberg published an article on Monday with details of how the signal group 11 was added to the Chat on March 11, reportedly dubbed “Houthi PC Small Group”, which included high -ranking government officials, including waltzMinister of Defense Pete Hegset, CIA director John Ratcliffe, Chief of Staff of the White House Susie Wiles, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, Vice President JD Vance and others.
Including a journalist in a group chat caused outrage from the Democrats, some of which called on HegSeth and Waltz to resign from their security roles, and others demanding to testify before the congress on this matter.
