🚨NEW with @DropSiteNews: Waltz wasn’t on Signal during the cabinet meeting. He was using an Israeli intel-linked app used for extracting and archiving chats, staffed and founded by vets of IDF intelligence units. The CIA once called Israel its #1 counterintelligence threat. 🔗👇
In Trump’s first term, Israel reportedly installed StingRays (devices to mimic cell towers and collect data) around the White House. (Israel denies this). Now, it seems the White House has decided to install TeleMessage’s app on high level official’s phones.
We found employees at Telemessage who worked with Israeli spyware firms Cellebrite and NSO Group. One served with Israels Unit 8200, compared to the NSA. If I were in charge of safeguarding top U.S. nat sec official’s phones, I’d be sweating bullets.
Top officials using Signal for work was not ideal. But now, data shared on these chats is exfiltrated to another device. And the data is only as secure as the endpoint. Signal told us it “cannot guarantee the privacy or security properties of unofficial versions of Signal.”
This may have been an attempt to comply with federal record keeping laws, but it’s just about the stupidest way possible of doing that.
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🚨NEWS : TeleMessage, the developer of the app found on Mike Waltz's phone, was exposing unencrypted passwords. The website, now scrubbed, was misconfigured allowing anyone to see usernames, emails and passwords of some users. With @DropSiteNews
The website was exposing URLs that included full, cleartext usernames, passwords, emails and phone numbers.
Also in the story - a new congressional letter from Senator @RonWyden demands a DOJ investigation of the app, which he called a "serious threat to U.S. national security." The letter also acknowledges "serious security and counterintelligence threats."
Meet Yaakov Roth, the DOJ attorney spearheading the U.S. slide into fascism, fighting for deportation for Mahmoud Khalil and for the right of the state to disappear people to El Salvador without criminal charges or due process.
Yaakov is a longtime conservative and Zionist activist, defender of the Iraq war, and has an unhealthy obsession with Donald Rumsfeld, including a Facebook album with 50 photos of the man. Unhinged!
Yaakov cut his teeth as a member of the “Young Zionists Partnership,” sparring with students protesting Israeli violence on the campus of York in Toronto. He also participated in pro-Iraq war demonstrations in 2003.
First off, you gotta know where to look. USASpending has nothing for a company with this name. So next best place to look is SAM dot gov, which has data on competed contracts. A quick search there (requires a login), reveals this. Immediate owner: APTIM Federal Services LLC, owned by Veritas Capital Partners V, LLC.
A lot of sloppy sleuthing pointing at a self storage company in Colorado... better ignore that.
NEW: ICE is hunting for Yunseo Chung, a Columbia student who attended pro-Palestine protests. Chung came to the US from Korea with her family at age 7, and was her high school's valedictorian. She's a lawful permanent resident. Here's what we know so far. 🧵
March 9 - ICE HSI agent texts Chung, says its "Audrey from the police" - text message mentions that Chung was arrested, along with many others, during a protest for failing to leave an area, charged with "obstruction of governmental administration," a misdemeanor, often dropped.
That same day, Chung gets an email from Columbia Public Safety, informing her that the USAO for the Southern District has asked them to inform her of HSI agents seeking her arrest.
When his lawyer tried to schedule a call with him, ICE offered a date TEN DAYS AWAY.
WOW - I reported in @DropSiteNews that the arresting ICE agent, Elvin Hernandez, was a guest of Trump at his SOTU. In custody, Mahmoud "saw an agent approach Agent Hernandez and say, "the White House is requesting an update." A level of coordination previously unknown.
NEW: Mahmoud Khalil was FINALLY able to have a real conversation with his attorneys after a harrowing 5 days... but only because a judge ordered he be allowed to. Here's what we know so far.