A photograph of Trump administration official Mike Waltz’s phone shows him using an unofficial version of Signal designed to archive messages during a cabinet meeting.
Mike Waltz, who was until Thursday U.S. National Security Advisor, has inadvertently revealed he is using an obscure and unofficial version of Signal that is designed to archive messages, raising questions about what classification of information officials are discussing on the app and how that data is being secured, 404 Media has found.
On Thursday Reuters published a photograph of Waltz checking his mobile phone during a cabinet meeting held by Donald Trump.
The screen appears to show messages from various top level government officials, including JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, and Marco Rubio.
How did this photo even happen? They don’t use privacy covers? Who’s running this operation??
This is the dumbass that is running the operation. Well, not anymore. He just got fired and nominated for ambassador to the UN.
Seriously
Wait, really? It’s getting impossible to keep up with this shit.
Holy shit it’s real
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-mike-waltz-alex-wong/
It’s like every mind numbing event is endcapped with a stinger: But wait, there’s more!
And your gonna feel worse about it!
You’re*
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Talk about paid-vacation, I mean, paid-suspension
You’re not supposed to have sensitive info on your screen in public in the first place.
That’s why you have privacy glass meaning you can only read the screen from a narrow angle range.
I have a polarizing filter on my phone, but that can be circumvent Ed with the right camera lens.
Next question: how does the rest of the photo come out when using that camera lens?
Polarized light still feels like black magic to me, so I wouldn’t be surprised if it would have a negligible to no effect on anything else in the frame, but my instinct says it would mess up a bunch of random things, thus making it useful for very specific spy craft type applications, but not for general use.
Damn that Ed, always circumventing things.
I’m leaving Ed be. He’s cool, but his views are polarizing.