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SignalGate: A Surveillance Arms Race Has Poked Gaping Hole in National Security
A surveillance arms race has poked a gaping hole in national security.
On April 20, The New York Times reported that the security breach is even worse than initially understood: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth had also shared many of the same details about the imminent U.S. bombing strike in Yemen in a second group chat with several family members, a personal lawyer, and others, using his private phone. But by focusing on National Security Adviser Mike Waltz’s unwitting inclusion of TheAtlantic ’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, in the first chat group, much of the debate has downplayed an even larger problem: the very real possibility that a foreign government or other hostile power was snooping on the devices through which those communications were taking place. A 2020 Citizen Lab report revealed that Circles, a firm that sells signaling surveillance services, had government clients in Botswana, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Nigeria, Peru, Serbia, Thailand, the United Arab Emirates, Vietnam, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
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