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The Trump Administration Sure Is Having Trouble Keeping Its Comms Private
In the wake of SignalGate, a knockoff version of Signal used by a high-ranking member of Trump's Administration was hacked. Today on "Uncanny Valley," we discuss the security of government communications.
We're going to talk about how the former National Security Advisor, Mike Waltz, was seen last week using the app in a Cabinet meeting and what this latest incident tells us about the growing vulnerabilities in government communication. Zoë Schiffer: Well, it seems like one of the people, like we mentioned earlier, who was using TeleMessage was Mike Waltz, the now former National Security Adviser, who at this point is best known for starting that infamous Signal group chat a few weeks back that accidentally added a senior member of The Atlantic Newsroom. CBP has apparently released a request for information seeking pitches, essentially for companies to help them do vehicle surveillance at the border and face recognition technology to see specifically who is in cars, not just the front seat.
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