I'm still not confused and you're still missing the forest for the trees because you don't like the common practice of including the server infrastructure when talking about apps.

There was a plaintext archive of messages on a remote server. That's a security problem no matter what point you're trying to make about the term app.

I do like common terminology, that's the problem.

Once again, this has already been cleared up elsewhere. Since you seem intent on dragging this out for some reason, you're going to be blocked. Have a nice night.

They sound staggeringly incompetent. And anyone who bought their software without any investigation into its quality also sounds staggeringly incompetent. Apparently there's a lot of it going around.

The passphrase or the unencrypted database are still open in memory. Though that is, of course, a more complicated attack but they could simply read it through the app itself.

This is now the third post in the last 24 hours where I stumble into a needlessly long thread because this user is completely obtuse and can't handle being wrong or a different opinion.

You can set it to wipe them from memory on different conditions, including instantly if youre that paranoid, sure its still possible. Its an optional feature most people wont use, but its pretty well thought out.

In the 1980s the trend of the day was patriotism.

In the 1990s the trend of the day was being a rebel.

In the 2000s, there started to become a divide on what the trend ofthe day was. You were either pro patriotism/pro war.....or, you were anti war/pro protesting. At least in the USA.

2010s the trend of the day was culture wars and division.

2020s, the trend of the day seems to be batshit lunacy and mindnumbing stupidity.

It's 2025. We have 5 more years to go. And with trump having 4 more of those years, I expect no change there.

God I hope the 2030s bring some kind of sanity, unity, and enlightenment.

Or, barring that, I'd also settle for UFOs visiting earth and allowing humans to leave earth. I mean seriously. How bad could other planets be, right? I mean their species is clearly more advanced then ours. I figure humans had their shot. Now I'll roll the dice and give these grey guys a shot, right? What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

And hey, if they're the anal probe kind of aliens, that's just a bonus.....uhhhh......I mean......what? No no, I didn't say that. I'm just some random straight dude looking to leave this planet with some grey dudes I just met.

Totally /s Can't even read your own comments.

Big 404 fan, but "original" is misleading. "First article on this topic" is more accurate. OPs link is arguably more interesting.

You might enjoy the full blog post from the author:

Despite misleading marketing, Israeli company TeleMessage, used by Trump officials, can access plaintext chat logs

💡Update May 18, 2025: I described TeleMessage's trivial vulnerability in an article for WIRED: How the knock-off Signal app used by Trump officials got hacked in 20 minutes Update May 19, 2025: Uh oh: DDoSecrets publishes 410 GB of heap dumps, hacked from TeleMessage's archive server Update May 21, 2025:

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Not to mention TeleMessage violated the terms of the GPL. Signal is under gpl and I can't find TeleMessage's code anywhere.

Edit: it appears it is online somewhere just not in a github repo or anything

Here's the source code for the unofficial Signal app used by Trump officials

💡Update May 4, 2025: I have published quite the follow-up story, if I may say so myself: The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked Update May 6, 2025: I've written a new detailed analysis. The findings are based on the TM SGNL source code and are corroborated by

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