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National security advisor Mike Waltz added a journalist to a Signal chat after approving a Siri-suggested contact update


Maybe using consumer tech for government business is a bad idea.

Last month, Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg was added to a Signal group chat about a military strike in Yemen planned for later that day. Now, sources inside the White House have apparently told The Guardian that an internal investigation revealed the roundabout way that happened: Siri was being helpful. It’s true that Siri can make suggestions based on info like phone numbers that it finds in your text messages — something you can disable in the iOS Settings app.

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