US EditionThe Signal app was used by Trump officials to share airstrike plans. What is it?
- Atlantic Editor-in-Chief Jeffrey Goldberg detailed a discussion on the Signal messaging app hours before U.S. President Donald Trump ordered strikes on Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, leading to questions about handling sensitive information.
- The controversy arose after Goldberg published an article and shared screenshots of the Signal group chat, revealing that he, as a journalist, was mistakenly included in a chat with Trump administration officials, including National Security Advisor Mike Waltz, who took responsibility for the error, as well as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, and National Intelligence Director Tulsi Gabbard.
- The National Security Council has acknowledged the authenticity of the text chain and is investigating how the journalist was added.
- Jamil Jaffer, founder of the National Security Institute, noted Signal's encryption and widespread use in Washington D.C., questioning why officials aren't using more secure government communication channels, suggesting that a secure, usable government app may not exist.
- Founded by Moxie Marlinspike, who previously sold a mobile security startup to Twitter, Signal's operations are supported by the non-profit Signal Foundation, established in 2018 with a $50 million donation from WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton, emphasizing privacy and security.
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Former national security officials say air strike plans shared with journalist should have been classified
Former national security officials and Democrats rejected the Trump administration’s assertion that no secrets were disclosed when detailed U.S. air strike plans were inadvertently shared with a journalist on Signal.
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Escape from an American attack plan: what is Signal, the encrypted messaging used by the Trump administration?
Secure messaging thanks to full data encryption, Signal is at the heart of the Trump government's leak of military information, which used this unauthorized channel to communicate internally and invite the editor of the magazine "The Atlantic".
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