After the Atlantic editor -in -chief was Jeffrey Goldberg that he was mistakenly added to the signal chat room, where American national security officials divided air strikes against the Houthis in Yemen, the highest mind of the country sinks about how errors occurred.
Airstrikes was ordered by US President Donald Trump and Goldberg said that highly sensitive information and defense plans were coordinated hours before the strike.
Since its publication, the US National Security Council has verified that the Goldberg text chain “seems authentic” and said he was looking at how a journalist’s number has been added to the chat.
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In the middle of this, we look at the message for sending messages – signal. Is it safe and safe to use for sensitive discussions? Can it be attacked? Is it used by any other governments? And who owns the application?
About the signal – what is the application?
It is an application that can be used for direct sending of messages and group cottages as well as for telephone and video calls.
The signal uses end-to-end encryption for its message and call services that prevents any third party from viewing the content of conversation or to listen to calls.
In other words, messages and calls sent to the signal are mixed and only the sender and the recipient at each end will have the key to decrypting them.
The signal encryption protocol is open source, which means it is freely available for anyone to control, use or modify. The encryption protocol also uses another popular chat service, the WhatsApp platform on the META social media.
Signal encryption is turned on by default, unlike another popular message application, a telegram that requires users to turn it on and doubt it for group cottages.
The signal has functions that are found in other messaging applications. It allows users to host group cottages with up to 1,000 people and messages can be set to automatically disappear after a certain time.
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Is the signal safe?
Signal Touts on Tuesday advocates the privacy of its service and its head defended the safety procedures of the application.
“The signal is a gold standard in private communications,” said Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, on X without dealing with Atlantic news.
Experts agree that the signal is safer than conventional text messages. But it could be attacked.
Government officials used a signal for organizational correspondence, such as incorporating sensitive meetings, but Joe Biden was managed by people who had permission to download on their phones issued at the White House, according to a former national security official who served.
An official who asked for anonymity to talk about the methods used to share sensitive information, said the signal was most often used to announce someone to check the classified message sent by other means.
In addition to worrying about security, signal and other similar applications, open -time skirt laws can allow users. Without special software for archiving, messages are often not returned according to public information.
In the Atlantic article Goldberg wrote that some messages were set up for disappearance after a week and some of the four.
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Do other government officials use a signal?
According to the recent revision of the Associated Press Associated Associated Press Application, encrypted messages for sending messages are becoming increasingly popular.
State, local and federal officials in almost every state have accounts about encrypted applications for sending messages that have found that many of these accounts registered to government mobile phones. Some were also registered in personal numbers.
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Who is behind the signal?
The Origins application dates back to more than ten years, when it was established by an entrepreneur called Moxie Marlinspike, who was briefly the Twitter Product Security Management after he sold social media’s mobile security.
Marlinspike merged two existing applications with an open source code, one for text messages and one for voice calls to create a signal.
The non -profit signaling foundation was set up in 2018 to support the operation of the application and to “explore the future of private communication” according to the Foundation’s website.
The foundation says it is a non -profit organization “without advertisers or investors maintained only by people who use and appreciate it”.
The Foundation Council has five members, including Brian Acton, who co -founded WhatsApp and donated $ 50 million to establish a foundation.
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